Gentleman JackBBC One★★★★☆Equator from the AirBBC Two ★★★★☆Week two of Gentleman Jack and the intimacy co-ordinator has still barely dusted off her modesty thong. Apart, that is, from a three-second flashback to some lively lesbian action with a voluptuous mademoiselle, which explained why Anne Lister enjoyed the tastes of Paris so much. Sally Wainwright’s drama is more about the slow, ineluctable build-up of sexual tension between Lister and Ann Walker and is classier for it. Sophie Rundle and Suranne Jones get closer in Gentleman Jack BBCThis is rollicking good drama, with Suranne Jones a dynamo as Lister, black-clad and striding around Halifax like a swashbuckling crow. But Sophie Rundle last night came into her own as the shy, supposedly frail rich girl Ann,…

Source: The Times May 26, 2019 23:00 UTC