This adaptation of Henry Fielding's 1749 comic romp 'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling,' premieres Sunday on PBS, and stars Solly McLeod and Sophie Wilde.
, from 1997, aired here on A&E, but as far as I can tell, the new series is only the third screen version.) Adapted by Gwyneth Hughes, directed by Georgia Parris and co-produced by Britain’s ITV and PBS Masterpiece, the new series rollicks here and there, but with four hours to spend, it takes things at a relatively leisurely pace.
Crucially it makes him an unsuitable match for Sophie, the beautiful girl at the manor next door, and it earns him the contempt of his crabbed rival, Mr. Blifil , the son of Squire Allworthy’s sister Bridget . But Tom is without prejudice, a friend to high and low, a gentlemen by nature if not by birth; if anything, it’s the upper class who scheme for advantage and can’t see the true worth of things.
Circumstances drive a wedge between Tom and Squire Allworthy, and he sets off on the road. Sophia, too, will have reasons to leave home, and their travels will afford highly coincidental meetings with characters they know, characters they knew and characters who turn out to be quite other than expected.
Partridge, whom Tom meets on way to London , becomes in this version something more substantial and weightier than in the novel, less a comical sidekick and more a wise partner. Similarly,
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