The wonder of Sally Wainwright’s lesbian period drama is the way it mixed the traditional with the groundbreaking – all while pulling in millions of fans
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Like Anne Lister herself, the Gentleman Jack finale strode its way to a happy ending with plenty of charm to spare. It galloped through its best episode yet with enough pace to put its quick-footed heroine in the shade. It was a shameless crowd-pleaser, and as a drama, it seemed as if the show had found its confidence and its stride. There will be another season, and though the marriage (of sorts) wrapped everything up in as traditional a manner as possible, it left the impression that there are plenty of adventures to come for the happy couple, and some of those will involve the surprisingly gripping world of early 19th-century coal mining.
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