I'm so very glad I've never read the books so I'm able to watch the show and enjoy it for what it is: a touching, brilliantly produced coming of age story / mature romance / family drama.
Imagine if your father has died and your mother, in a fit, decides to move to a completely different part of the world. You have crazy, interesting siblings
The Durrells does everything right. The actors have convinced me I've travelled through time and am actually watching a real British family living in 1930s Corfu, I lose myself in the beauty of the island due to some magic the cinematographers have cast (or maybe it's just incredible skill), and the director does what a director should do, they make you forget they exist.
Imagine if your father has died and your mother, in a fit, decides to move to a completely different part of the world. You have crazy, interesting siblings
The Durrells does everything right. The actors have convinced me I've travelled through time and am actually watching a real British family living in 1930s Corfu, I lose myself in the beauty of the island due to some magic the cinematographers have cast (or maybe it's just incredible skill), and the director does what a director should do, they make you forget they exist.