Review of Howards End

I'm of two minds on this. The parts that stuck to the book were good although the first episode was rather slow. What really kept annoying me was how they created in one particular regard a past fictional universe, where England was evidently harmoniously multi-ethnic. If they change the culture of the time, which is one of the things that makes these old English stories usually so interesting, why not just add some steampunk to it, or maybe some pets that could talk? I'm kidding, sort of. But seriously, I've never seen an alternate-universe story that was so grating . If they're going to go so radical in one aspect but then have the rest of the story stick the book, its a very jarring thing when it swings back and forth.

Every scene with Helen and Quinn was excruciatingly bad. It was just grating and made me long for them to get back to the main plot. There was one scene in particular that just went on for so damn long. It was horribly written and all but ruined the whole experience.