GENTLEMAN JACK

Here for synopses

Episodes Directed by Jennifer

Episode 5 “Let’s Have Another Look at Your Past Perfect”
Episode 6 “Do Ladies Do That?”

Production Company

Lookout Point Production

Broadcaster

BBC ONE in association with HBO

Main Cast

Suranne Jones, Sophie Rundle, Timothy West, Gemma Jones, Gemma Whelan

VIDEOS

Selected Scenes

Episode 5

AWARDS

RTS Drama Series
RTS Drama Series award – winner

BAFTA
BAFTA TV Award for Drama Series – nomination
BAFTA TV Award for Leading Actress – Suranne Jones – nomination

BANFF Rockie Award
BANFF Rockie Award for Drama Series: English Language – winner

Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
Best Actress – Suranne Jones – nomination

National Television Awards
Drama Performance – nomination

“Gentleman Jack is a true TV marvel – romantic, raw and totally radical”

– Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian

“A confident, smart period drama.”

– Ed Cumming, The Independent

“[The series] offers an engrossing 19th-century comedy of social mores and upends the heteronormative assumptions of such stories.”

– James Poniewozik, The New York Times

“Gentleman Jack is a sparkling delight.”

– Suzi Feay, Financial Times

“A powerhouse performance by Jones.”

– Carol Midgley, The Times

Episode 5 - ★★★★

“Jones shone as the complex, charismatic Lister, whether vigorously striding around the Halifax countryside as a woman on a mould-breaking mission, or in the more intimate moments as a woman who merely wanted to find love.”

– Michael Hogan, The Telegraph

Synopses

From the Bafta award winning writer Sally Wainwright comes a remarkable and unlikely love story based on the diaries of the Regency landowner Anne Lister.

Halifax, 1832. Charismatic, swashbuckling Anne Lister determines to transform the fate of her ancestral home Shibden Hall. To do this, she must re-open her coal mines and marry well. But Anne has no intention of marrying a man. True to her own nature, she plans to marry a woman, and embarks on an epic, unconventional love story.

Let’s Have Another Look at Your Past Perfect
Episode 5

Synopsis:

The widowed Reverend Ainsworth arrives in Halifax with his sights set on Ann Walker’s hand in marriage, as well as a position at a local church. Eliza Priestley – who remains bitterly angry with Anne Lister since she caught her kissing Ann Walker – encourages unctuous Ainsworth’s predatory plans. Aware that Ainsworth’s attentions are stirring up painful memories for her lover, Anne Lister sets out to deal with the clergyman in her own inimitable manner. She soon realises however that there are greater demons inside Ann Walker’s troubled mind, as the scrutiny of another member of Ann’s tribe of friends and relations poses a further threat to their relationship.

Anne presses on with the transformation of her estate, but there are signs that her ambitious plans could also be about to lead her into trouble. Meanwhile Marian remains impressed with Mr Abbott, and a discovery in the pig-sty gives Mary Sowden reason to suspect that Thomas is lying about exactly how his father disappeared.

Do Ladies Do That?
Episode 6

Synopsis:

With Ann Walker’s mental health in an alarming downward spiral – and her overprotective relatives watching over her – Anne Lister is forced to contemplate travelling alone, despite her family’s warnings that to do so would raise eyebrows. When a panicked call comes from Crow Nest, Anne is unable to ignore Ann’s cry for help and witnesses her lover’s shocking breakdown first-hand.

Back at Shibden, Aunt Anne and Jeremy are less taken with the irritating Mr Abbott than Marian is. Samuel Washington suspects there may be more to Anne’s decision to put the pit sinking on hold than she’s letting on. She reopens negotiations with the powerful Rawson brothers, but continues to put Jeremiah under pressure.

Meanwhile, Thomas Sowden’s macabre secret casts a dark cloud over his deepening relationship with Suzannah Washington, and Ann Walker’s Scottish relatives have dangerous ideas of their own about what is best for her future