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Paradise Postponed (1986)

Paradise Postponed poster
Directed by
Alvin Rakoff
Genre
drama
Country
United Kingdom
Length
2 seasons, 14 episodes
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A story set in a small English village that looks at three decades of British life after the Second World War. It follows a group of characters as they deal with changing times, personal ambitions, and hidden secrets.

slightly satiricalslow-burnobservationalnostalgicunderstateddryly humorouscharacter-driven

What happens

Paradise Postponed (1986) is a British 11-episode TV serial based on the 1985 novel by writer John Mortimer. The series covered a span of 30 years of postwar British history, set in a small village. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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