The final episode had a difficult task and it was uneven. It highlights the difficulties of adapting Evelyn Waugh's satirical book but writer James Wood gets a good dig into that overrated film, The Shawshank Redemption at least.
Pennyfeather has been duped by the widow Margot Beste-Chetwynde and he has been unwittingly involved in the white slavery racket. He decides to do the proper thing and take the fall for the one he loves on the eve of his wedding. One can only hope that the judge will be lenient and Margot Beste-Chetwynde will wait for him.
Well zero out of two is not bad, seven years of severe penal punishment because Pennyfeather is in good health and Margot Beste- Chetwynde has found a new suitor in the Home Secretary.
In prison Pennyfeather encounters all chums, sinister Philbrick is back in jail, Prendergast is in over his head as the prison chaplain, Grimes later turns up as a bigamist. Yet his punishment is harsh surrounded by murderers and guards who cannot stand him worse still the prison governor has modern ideas of prisons.
Out of nowhere comes a bizarre plan to escape and a chance to meet up with Dr Fagan.
At least there was a satisfying conclusion to a patchy episode.
Pennyfeather has been duped by the widow Margot Beste-Chetwynde and he has been unwittingly involved in the white slavery racket. He decides to do the proper thing and take the fall for the one he loves on the eve of his wedding. One can only hope that the judge will be lenient and Margot Beste-Chetwynde will wait for him.
Well zero out of two is not bad, seven years of severe penal punishment because Pennyfeather is in good health and Margot Beste- Chetwynde has found a new suitor in the Home Secretary.
In prison Pennyfeather encounters all chums, sinister Philbrick is back in jail, Prendergast is in over his head as the prison chaplain, Grimes later turns up as a bigamist. Yet his punishment is harsh surrounded by murderers and guards who cannot stand him worse still the prison governor has modern ideas of prisons.
Out of nowhere comes a bizarre plan to escape and a chance to meet up with Dr Fagan.
At least there was a satisfying conclusion to a patchy episode.