"Perfect Strangers" Episode #1.3 (TV Episode 2001) Poster

(TV Mini Series)

(2001)

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10/10
A captivating conclusion.
Sleepin_Dragon8 September 2022
Daniel tires of delivering messages back and forth between Alice and Rebecca, he digs away, and finally learns the truth.

It's been a captivating watch from start to finish, we understand pretty much why the party took place, and why the frost existed between the family members Daniel quickly grew to love.

A stunning third episodes, all of the various threads are neatly sewn together, Esther's family tree, and just what Raymond's father was doing in that photograph.

Richard's story is quite incredible, it perhaps says a lot about the way in which mental health was dealt with even twenty years ago (writing in 2022.) A terrific, empathetic performance from JJ Feild, and a reaction from his trio of family members, which although wrong, felt perfectly plausible.

Scenes at that family party, again we're utterly glorious, but Raymond's revelation about his dad, that was captivating.

This was where I first fell in love with Lindsay Duncan, she truly puts in the most incredible performance here as Rebecca.

Stephen Poliakoff, you are a legend.

10/10.
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6/10
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Prismark1020 June 2019
It was all about Richard the lost brother played by Jude Law/Tom Hiddleston look alike JJ Feild.

His death caused a rupture between Rebecca and Alice. A schism that Daniel wants to repair but it will be something that would make Rebecca angry towards him.

Alice was a surrogate mother to Rebecca, Charles and Richard but the latter started to display a strange pattern of behaviour.

As it is mentioned time and time again, you cannot always put the pieces back together.

For Raymond the family get together allowed him to discover more about his stern father. He was acting frivolously as he was showing off to his married lover.

Stephen Poliakoff uses mood, music and pictures to tell his story about family history. At least Daniel finds out why he was pictured as a boy with a strange a costume.
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