Word: pigott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spielbergian supernatural touches (ghosts appearing in dreams, Jupiter descending from the heavens) and robust battles. In one chilling scene, two panels of the back wall bang open to reveal opposing armies about to pour onto the stage. The most impressive coup de theatre, however, belongs to Star Tim Pigott-Smith, a specialist in complex villains. He invades the bedroom of a sleeping princess, robs and molests her while voicing a cascading confusion of emotions -- first pride, then shame, then lust, then greed -- with the naked horror of a man facing his true nature for the first time...
...just emerged from a previous incarnation at an exclusive English boarding school, and finds himself an alien in the land of his fathers. While the lovers are drawing close enough to realize the distance between them, they are constantly shadowed by a working-class British officer, Ronald Merrick (Tim Pigott-Smith). Perversely relishing his lack of old school ties, Merrick remains a perennial odd man out in British India, resented by well-bred Britons, resentful of well-heeled Indians...
...professional consoler to be found at the bedsides of the series' variously suffering characters, Geraldine James is unremittingly sensible. So too is Charles Dance as Guy Perron, the thoughtful, soft-spoken officer with whom she feels rapport. But the most dominant of all the performances is that of Pigott-Smith as Merrick. Holding together the entire series with the black magic of a self-made lago, he is a picture of twisted pride and prejudice, his face permanently pinched, his upper lip invariably quivering toward a sneer...