According to the episode sumamries, Logan has an afair with his son's girlfriend, Monday and has to leave teh US when it is learned that she is underage. Anybody knwo why this part was cut for the Materpiece Theater showing?
rob - i asked myself the same question. this appears to be a critical element in the story -- and the reason he leaves nyc. and in one of the final scenes the camera pans over the piles of memorabilia and we see one labeled 'monday'.
i think the us audience was cheated for reasons unknown.
i plan to contact pbs offices and ask for an explanation.
I thought it was only in the book not knowing that it was entirely cut out. It seemed like a huge span of time was missing from the funeral of his son to the switch to Jim Broadbent back in England. I didn't care for the third part much at all. I also thought PBS rarely edited these shows.
Pleaee let me know what pbs has to say about this, if they respond. Thanks
I thought the reason he went back to England was 1. His son died in the US, @, His American wife told him she had been having an affair for four years and to get out as she was divorcing him. 3. She intended to cut off his seeing his step daughter who he liked. I think she reminded him of his dead daughter. 4. In NY he was drinking heavily and his health was getting so bad that he was overweight and losing his teeth.
Time to go I would say.
Chicago85, you may have some good points, but why go if he is doing well financially in NYC. He went back to poverty in UK. Your reasons aren't good enough. Besides it is in the book and possibly in the UK version, so we already know the reason..no need to speculate further. Have you read the book or seen the UK version?
The book goes into detail about him leaving NY because he is, or maybe, charged with statutory rape with Monday because she moves in with him after his son's death. The series doesn't go into that at all. You can read a summary of the book on Wikipedia. He leaves the US in disgrace and to avoid charges over it.
It was cut out for the American broadcast? Good lord! Well I hope you can get a DVD without any editing.
shareWhen PBS started cutting and editing these programs I stopped watching years ago. Plus, there is no way you can show those sex scenes on American tv -- they are the stuff of R-rated films here in the US. Netflix is the only way to go. I also stopped my contributions to PBS and told them why! Also, they would at times run a program, then suddenly not run it due to ratings, so that I never got the see the ending! PBS USED to be wonderful. Not anymore.
shareReally a shame to hear that about PBS. I would suspect they also cut the frequent use of the "F" word and the "c" word that rhymes with "hunt". On top of that, full-frontal nudity and sex scenes with bare breasts. As usual, it's always sexist: the women strip off, the men don't. Of course not. :(
The sexual relationship with Monday is in the UK version and they are shown having sex. When confronted by Monday's angry father, Logan finds out that Monday is only 16 in a state where age of consent is 17. Logan panics, flees and, following Leeper's advice, quickly heads back to England to avoid statutory rape charges.
Logan is a pig who thinks with his dick. Even if he thought she was older, she had been his son's girlfriend and was obviously still a teenager. Shame on him!
Logan is a pig who thinks with his dick. Even if he thought she was older, she had been his son's girlfriend and was obviously still a teenager. Shame on him!