So is anyone watching the Beeb's latest experiment in television?

I meant to watch this from the start but I've only caught the last ten minutes of tonight’s episode so far (that will be rectified on Sunday!).

Personally I was amazed with Gillian Anderson's performance (in the snippet I saw anyway) as she did what sounded like a bloody good job with an English accent!

The one thing I did find off-putting though was the close cropped shots of the various characters, which seemed a little too in-yer-face.

Other than that, it looked pretty good!

I taped the first two episodes, I've not yet gotten around to viewing, so I have nothing to add I just didn't want you to feel all alone in your interest.

Comments to follow.

I liked it. I don't see why it's such a big thing about the "time constraint".

You know, having an hour to play with doesn't suddenly make it a great and worthy piece of TV. And while some may argue that "the story needs time to unfold" I didn't get any sense of them trying hard to cliffhanger each show in an unnatural point. Indeed it invigorates the pace of the story and I feel it would have dragged in longer bursts. It's a shame, but that's how it is in TV land nowadays.
If it was good enough for Doctor Who...(!)

My only point of concern was in the horrible very 90's location transistions. The 3-2-1 crash zooms that pulled ou out of it playe don my hatred of "whipper snappers" coming out of their art degrees and dandering on to edit for The Beeb with all these new fangled ideas of "let's do crash zooms on that horse and cart!".
A bad choice from the point of view of tone. This isn't a Chinese martial arts fight sequence!

Gillian Anderson has an amazingly strong natural english accent. She said herself it changes; if she is over in America for any length of time it changes, but she's been here a while (hasn't she?) so it's reverted to her childhood accent*
Everytime I expected her to trip up or "hit a dud note" she delivered. Even Johnny Vegas came across well.

*You don't folow X-Files for 8 years without finding out about your lead actress' life!

She has a English accent in real life! I think she was raised and/or born here.

Yep.

Like I rambled, you don't watch...well, you can read it above!

Saw her on a jonathan Ross thing and she was Englished-up

I apologise didn't see that there. I remember seeing her on So Graham Norton a couple of years ago and I also was suprised that her accent was so refined.

Is she actually British?

Maybe that's why she was so standout as one of the few ungrily female characters in an otherwise by he book scifi series where the women agents usually aren't steely distanced and don't fall for the male lead within the first series!

She was either born here or moved here at a very early age and stayed until her early teenage years, hence the impeccable accent.

I've missed this week's installments but I'm planning to get stuck in next week. I've been mesmerised by all the publicity shots of Gillian as Lady Dedlock. Isn't she beautiful?

Her neck looks a bit "severe" as we'd say here! In fact she looks so wonderfully gaunt ("severe") with her jutting cheekbones and pout that even when she's not saying anything she conveys hurt yet utter poise refusing to let herself show them.

Hurrahs!

Gillian Anderson is American, but she lived in London for most of her late childhood and early teens, so her accent can swing both ways (as it were!).
I had to do a piece of coursework on this book at A Level, so I'd love to be able to watch the BBC versions - is there a site where I can get hold of it?