I watched this show tonight for a completely innocent reason. I had an online re-encounter after decades with a friend I'd done a play alongside in London during the late 1980s and with whom I'd lost touch. Well, he wound up as a regular in this series playing a sharpshooter private, so I watched some episodes as he and I and our wives might be meeting for a catchup later this summer.
Major Sharpe is a working class orphan promoted to officer on merit from the ranks during the Napoleonic Wars, in an era where officers were usually promoted by purchasing their commissions. Here he and his posh screen wife engage in a very minor but well-acted horizontal giggly frolic at 4:42.
youtube.com/watch?v=BeL05RAUVEM
Major Sharpe is a working class orphan promoted to officer on merit from the ranks during the Napoleonic Wars, in an era where officers were usually promoted by purchasing their commissions. Here he and his posh screen wife engage in a very minor but well-acted horizontal giggly frolic at 4:42.
youtube.com/watch?v=BeL05RAUVEM