GENTLEMAN JACK

I clapped and laughed and cheered all alone in my pad last night at the finale of the first season of the BBC and HBO's series set in the 1830s: GENTLEMAN JACK. Created by Sally Wainwright and based on the copious coded diaries of Anne Lister documenting her adventures, especially her affairs with women, it is one of the best written and acted (especially Suranne Jones in the title role) and edited and art directed and shot and original projects on any screen right now.