Bad language

Mmmm, cock. Oh... Wait... Doh!

It did have a focus on the class issues of the time. Jed Mercurio (the director and screenwriter) said he felt like there was no need to include the obscene language as that battle was won during the obscenity trial and that language is no longer shocking.
And it was airing at 9pm on Sunday night, I really don't know how explicit people expected it to be. I enjoyed it. I thought the performances were good. My only complaint is that 90 minutes was not long enough to tell the story the way it should be told. It felt like Connie had an affair because her husband was getting attention during a bath and was unwilling the please her the way she wanted him to (orally)...where as the division between the two of them (in the books and the Sean Bean version) seems to stem from she was growing and changing and Clifford was staunchly not changing in his views... It seemed kind of out nowhere that Connie suddenly did not like her husband after a while (although him suggesting she take a lover from the right class to have their child would have ticked me off too. Especially when he selected someone for her without her knowing...). At the same time, I thought the Sean Bean version was about an hour too long.
And this version did not follow up on Mellors wife very well, were they divorced after her affair?

I just watched this last night and thought the version was just okay. I read the book and I know that for the time the use of obscene language was such a huge deal but everytime I heard Richard Madden say "cock" it felt so... over the top? It has probably been researched to death but was this really how someone like Oliver Mellors - lower middle class but amazingly well read - spoke to women in those times? or were these lines just the product of Lawrence's desire to shock audiences?