So I don’t know why — OK I do know why, it was that there shirtless pic of Aidan Turner, aka Capt. Ross Poldark of His Majesty’s 62nd Regiment of Foot — but I’ve been on a mad binge-watch of the glossy-sexy Masterpiece Theatre drama Poldark via my WETA Passport subscription.

(It’s a perk when you support my day-job peeps at Classical WETA-FM! Doesn’t matter where you live! Nor require much of a pledge even!)

Anyway Poldark, or as I like to call it The One With The Broody Dude And The Crabby Cornish Aunt. I have over the past few days watched four of the five seasons, and I have in those days (and um nights) developed many feelings and observations, some of them becoming and many of them decidedly un.

I have shared a few of those feelings in real time on the Twittermachine, but for those who don’t follow me religiously (the nerve) I have compiled them below, that you might understand how my relationship to characters, places, and stories changes over time. And with sleep. And/or caffeine and/or sugar. Also there are bonus feelings here that have not made it to Twitter because I am having them even now, as I write this in the middle of a sweaty Saturday night.

I hope and trust that you, Gentle Reader, will share any feelings you may have about Poldark, or about Poldark, especially Wet Without His Shirt Poldark, as they occur to you.

Trey Graham @treygraham

Current mood: watching Poldark scythe a meadow.

July 11th 2019

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Continuing with my Poldark-enjoying: I was today years old when I realized that a long time ago in a galaxy etcetera, Cap’n Ross’s tarot-reading, upstart-voodooing firecracker of an Aunt Agatha was Mon “Many Bothans” Mothma.

July 11th 2019

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So the early episodes of “Poldark” S4 are going to be about how this wee aristocrat is going to waste away from ... being too pretty? Oy.

July 13th 2019

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My “Poldark” binge has reached the “eagerly waiting for this bish to take her laudanum overdose already” phase.

July 13th 2019

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Look here I know this show is all about a weekly disaster but I did not sign up for doomed-babby storylines so you just stop this right here you hear? #Poldark

July 13th 2019

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They DID NOT STOP in re: doomed-babby storyline (spoiler) and I cannot watch grown pretty men cry so things are not at all damp chez moi just now no not at all damp. #poldark #doomedbabby

July 13th 2019

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Ed note: it was not enough for Doomed Babby to die. Doomed Babby went into a tiny velvet coffin, and then her funeral got rained on, which: OH SURE. I hate everything.

Trey Graham @treygraham

A brief #Poldark aside: We stan an 18th-century woman who knows how to get hers while protecting her sister. Meaning Rowella Chynoweth, aka Tarty McVicarbanger. Love you sis.

July 14th 2019

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I mean *obviously* it’s Kill the Vicar O’Clock on #Poldark. I mean, Half-Hearted Methodist Prettyboy and Cheery Blonde Not-Morwenna just got engaged, so now is the perfect time to widow Actual Morwenna so as to set her and Half-Hearted Methodist Prettyboy up for *more* mooning.

July 14th 2019

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Seriously I should write historical bodice-rippers and/or PBS pledge-bait costume drama, shouldn’t I.

July 14th 2019

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Find you a man who looks at you the way… Nah you know what, I can’t even with these two. Moustachiest villains ever. (Though of course I *do* cackle whenever Ross evades one of George‘s schemes and Jack Farthing makes that pinchy face.) #Poldark

July 15th 2019

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OK this will wreck my rep as a curmudgeon, but I’m gonna need someone to set this sweet git’s “Walk with me” speech as an art song. In a naive style, obv. Think Carlisle Floyd‘s “Ain’t It a Pretty Night,” or Barber’s “Sure On This Shining Night.” ⁦@nicomuhly⁩? #Poldark

July 15th 2019

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Almost caught up — on the #Poldark S4 finale and thank God Elizabeth has finally kicked it — but hold up did y’all legit just go for a Sad Horace Reaction Shot? For serious?

July 15th 2019

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As you may have deduced, I tend to take my prestige dramas relatively seriously right up until I hurt myself rolling my eyes when a Regency matron voices some particularly modern attitude about poverty or equality — at which point I begin to hook snark at it. Aaaaanyway I hope you have enjoyed; for now, thus endeth the Poldarking, at least until I get myself a VPN so I can stream the UK’s new Season 5 episodes.