Show of the week: Masterpiece: Small Island
The lives of two women and the men they love intertwine across boundaries of race, class, and culture in Masterpiece's adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel.
The lives of two women and the men they love intertwine fatefully across boundaries of race, class, and culture in this superior two-part drama. Naomie Harris plays a prim young Jamaican who emigrates to postwar London, where her dreams of a better life in the “mother country” collide with rude realities. Ruth Wilson portrays her English landlady, a pig farmer’s daughter who is more warmhearted than most of the neighbors. Fine performances bring Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel to life. Sundays, April 18 and 25, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings
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