Tales of copper mining, smuggling and romantic chaos in 18th-century Cornwall, courtesy of the BBC, have once again come to an end.
Oh, how we’ll miss (until mid-2017 sometime) those rugged Cornish coastlines! As we question what will now fill the Sunday night void, we might be left wondering what to do with our conflicted affection for a very flawed and faulty protagonist, who only in the closing minutes recovers from a betrayal that nearly costs him his marriage.
On trial
Beginning with Captain Ross Poldark on trial, potentially facing the death penalty, the second series sees him evading that punishment twice over and on a third possible occasion by hiding under the floorboards after a misguided smuggling operation. Despite his successful avoidance of the noose in this course of political and economic events, it’s within the walls of his home where the real trial proves to be. This series confronted Ross with identity-shaping opportunities – will he give in to his saviour complex? Or will he choose a righteous path? It takes him eight and a half episodes to see that one does not equal the other.
