Excitement abounds as Charlotte (Rose Williams) agrees to help Tom (Kris Marshall) with his paperwork and sorting it out for him, as she is also enthusiastic over his model of how Sanditon will be built and look. He being the architect of the impressive town, with little help from an architecture journal as blueprints. That'll do that you after a brisk swim in the sea as Charlotte still shows her love of it. Also she passes Sidney (Theo James) on the way, who happens to turn the other way as she's passing and so doesn't see her. Yeah that'll show her, turning the other cheek, ha in relation to the end of the ep!)
Esther (Charlotte Spencer) and Edward (Jack Fox) discuss the 'affair' of Clara's (Lily Sacofsky) roving hand and how he was played by her. Though he could do nothing about it as he saw Charlotte there. As Esther later reprimands Clara for her "whoring ways" but she has seen much worse things. Apparently Edward and Esther are step brother and sister and Lord Babbington (Mark Stanley) finds he must visit Esther as he was passing, having taken a fancy to her. He being a peer of the realm, but she's not interested in him. Edward's manners also lacking in not averting his gaze from his book.
Lady Denham (Anne Reid) also pays a call in preparation for her luncheon, wherein she tells Edward to reel it in and seduce Miss Lambe instead, more like her £100,000 inheritance. He can enjoy dalliances after. Georgiana (Crystal Clarke) is Sidney's ward and she refuses to attend, throwing a tantrum, hating this windy,cold island. However he tells her she has no choice. The luncheon being the talk of the town, well not really. Though it is rather telling and revealing. As Lady Denham has brought in a pineapple for the occasion from Chelsea Physic Garden no less, specially cultivated for her. Which will serve as the centrepiece. Actually she thought she'd impress Georgiana Lambe. (Oh Jane Austen you had a shortage of names for your characters!) Luncheon is far from civilized, with Lady Denham bringing up her money several times over, asking Georgiana's opinion on marriage and then telling her she is "property" as was her mother who was a slave. Butting in for Edward who lacks the necessary qualities to court a woman.
Though Georgiana had plenty to say about the pineapple saying it's not a black pineapple and she has been fooled, in her Antiguan put-on accent. Lady Denham then asks Charlotte's opinion who says that marriage comes into it and love as well, a certain amount of equality and not being property. Of course she finds the whole thing disagreeable and Arthur (Turlough Convery) loses his patience and is firmly on Georgiana's side. As he grabs the pineapple and cuts it open, revealing maggots! Eeww! Sidney refuses to speak with Charlotte as she's seated next to him and on that note, he asks her what she thinks of the company here and she refuses to answer him as he said beforehand he wasn't conversing with her!
Georgiana runs away but can't get the stage to London as she has no money and is heckled away after saying her banker would settle the money with him. Charlotte finds her at the cliff and they make friends. She persuades her to paddle in the sea whereupon she's caught by her 'keeper' who whisks her away, saying someone might see her legs. Charlotte walks back collecting shells and is met with a full frontal of Sidney coming out of the sea and runs away, in disgust it looks like! Bah Brit productions have an obsession with bums it seems! Ha!
Elsewhere Tom is worried that Lady Denham won't continue with her investment and Charlotte apologizes, still not liking her opinion on Georgiana's money - again. But says he doesn't need to fear her withdrawing the money. Tom is eager for Sidney to come through on his promise of luring his friends into taking up accommodation here, which he says must be done with jollity and not forcing them into it. Edward and Esther want to be together but can't do so without any money. As Lady Denham also wants him to get his paws on Georgiana, well her money.
Ugh pineapples everywhere, will it never end. Reminded me of Aussie soap Neighbours and the nickname for Terese was a pineapple! Then Lady Denham being upset over her "pineapple" too which Tom and Charlotte found funny. Charlotte also telling Georgiana that Arthur has a good heart and stood up for her. Still not much happening in terms of plots and carrying the action forward yet, they need to get another six eps out if it, so it's still a slow build up to be particularly interesting and gripping. But perhaps a silly scene was that of the clergyman, Mr (Kevin Eldon) and how he spoke of women in bloom, rose blooms and more exotic blooms referring to Georgiana, but that all are blooms none the less and in need of "plucking." Ooh er vicar! If this production is meant to shock re race, gender etc and inequality, sorry but we're used to that by now and there wasn't any need to ruin this adaptation, as nothing was new.
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