Alicia
I love this movie so much
Diagonaldi
Very well executed
Unlimitedia
Sick Product of a Sick System
tylinti
Best TV show about church building. Ever. Period.(To speak without joking - it has a certain type of naivety that is very charming and gives you a warm feeling. Actors did a good job, they are very natural and believable. It might not be historically accurate, it has flaws, but I think they don't ruin the viewing experience. I think it could be called a great ancestor of Game Of Thrones).
Ann Laure
I was looking for a new TV show to watch when a friend of mine told me about the Pillars of the Earth and recommended it. After watching it for ten minutes, I was already in love with the characters and the plot. It totally amazed me until the last episode: the story is so well constructed, the realism of life in middle age so well implied, I was caught in it in the blink of an eye. I strongly recommend this show, as well as Ken Follett's original novel, to anyone wishing to see something different from modern and traditional American series. This one is a real outstanding masterpiece. However, I was a bit disappointed with season 2. While season 1 was totally inspired by Follett's novel, season 2 seems to be a marketing product with less authenticity, and left me quite frustrated because of its banality. But it is still worth being seen, though.
mari_del_mar
Beautiful Music. Tom Builder is very well portrayed. Beautiful scenes, photographs cathedrals, etc. For the first 3 episodes, it almost sticks to the plot of the book. That's as much good stuff as I can put about it.+ The whole book was inspired by medieval architecture. The miniseries completely ignores this. The one or two details that deal with the subject are wrong.+ The main character (Prior Phillip) which is a formidable presence in the book, is watered-down to little more than a wishy-washy simpleton.+ By the last chapters the story has departed so much from the (VERY GOOD) book, that it is really quite difficult to believe it's based on it. By the very end, it simply has no connection whatever with the plot of the book.
jjnxn-1
Almost total bastardization of a great novel. Whoever adapted the source material obviously didn't understand it and its strengths. They weakened both of the major characters, Philip and Aliena, and for whatever reason brought the royals who were just shadowy supporting characters in the novel too much into the fore. This IS NOT a worthwhile version of the book but some tired retread of the battle for the throne of England during the same time period with the novel's title stuck on. Aliena is miscast with an actress without the necessary fire to make her live on screen and although Matthew MacFayden is a fine actor there is little he can do to make Prior Philip the strong central character he should be since he has been adapted into a gullible milksop. The less said about the distortion of the character of William, a truly reprehensible devil in the book, into a dominated rather churlish mama's boy here the better. There are some good performances, notably Rufus Sewell as Tom Builder, but it is just not worth the effort to sit through this sorry enterprise.
