![]() Its large, sprawling cast revolves around the suffering, ultimately heroic figure of Jean Valjean ( Dominic West), who was imprisoned for 20 years for stealing a loaf of bread. But even if you haven’t read the work or seen the play (and its own adaptations), Hugo’s accessible and timeless story remains anything but miserable, as it embraces the struggle to find your way and keep your head above water when everything around you seems to want to drag you into the abyss.Īiring on Sunday nights for the exact length of time as Game of Thrones, Les Misérables provides an alternative point of view to fantasy and the machinations of kings. If the title doesn’t tip you off, an opening scene of the corpses of horses and men strewn across the battlefield of Waterloo will. The six-episode series, which aired on the BBC last year and is now premiering as part of PBS' Masterpiece slate in the United States, is in turn a sumptuous and horrifying exploration of the lives of the French working class and poor that spans the decades of early the 1800s (notably between revolutions). You cannot hear the people sing in Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel Les Misérables, and that is just fine.
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