Compelling watch, stayed up every night as it quickly became my favourite bedtime story. My Dad used to read to us and he loved literature, Hemmingway and Fitzgerald. Amazing revelations about the Fitzgeralds' courtship and romance, showing Zelda as a rebel, a free spirit and a woman with ideas and words that were repressed in those days in a male dominant society. Sizzling sex scenes and stunning nudity! She and Scott fought as both had their own ideas but made up sweetly afterwards. A very romantic story with champagne flowing as 'profligate as the sunshine'.
Christina Ricci as Zelda! Could hardly recognise her. We remember her as the delightful child terror, Wednesday Adams, in The Adamas Family (lol). Grown up, she is now a shining superstar as Zelda. Superb acting with an accent that was quite daunting, but she did it. David Hoflin as Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most 'natural' actors I'd come across. He acts perfectly natural, like everything was really happening to him! The other characters like Townsend and Zelda's damning Judge father (Strathairn) were also brilliantly portrayed.
We all would love to see the 2nd series, dreading the ending as it'd be too tragic to bear, maybe even to watch. Please make the 2nd series but do not underplay Scott's genius in writing - if he had borrowed some words from Zelda's diary, those were not his greatest quotes as he had coined many original phrases himself. "I'm not sentimental, I'm as romantic as you are. The sentimental person thinks things will last, while the romantic person has a desperate feeling that they won't!" - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Christina Ricci as Zelda! Could hardly recognise her. We remember her as the delightful child terror, Wednesday Adams, in The Adamas Family (lol). Grown up, she is now a shining superstar as Zelda. Superb acting with an accent that was quite daunting, but she did it. David Hoflin as Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most 'natural' actors I'd come across. He acts perfectly natural, like everything was really happening to him! The other characters like Townsend and Zelda's damning Judge father (Strathairn) were also brilliantly portrayed.
We all would love to see the 2nd series, dreading the ending as it'd be too tragic to bear, maybe even to watch. Please make the 2nd series but do not underplay Scott's genius in writing - if he had borrowed some words from Zelda's diary, those were not his greatest quotes as he had coined many original phrases himself. "I'm not sentimental, I'm as romantic as you are. The sentimental person thinks things will last, while the romantic person has a desperate feeling that they won't!" - F. Scott Fitzgerald.