This bears no resemblance to the book. 1930s Greece has had contemporary mores imposed upon it. An English family from 1930s wouldn't have been so openly intimate. This is a bad habit we picked up in the early 80s. The eldest lad uses words like "friggin'". I'm of a generation of Englishmen who wouldn't use that word (it's modern American. Even I know this!) never mind those of us from the 1930s. All that said, it is nevertheless entertaining and amusing at times, if one can also get over the patronising portrayal of the locals. The book is a far superior work. If you don't like this series, don't let that put you off the book. The book did not need modernising. Lazy, sloppy scriptwriters with no grasp of history. " Friggin'" kids educated by the Internet.
Review of The Durrells
