Louisa Mellor Nov 10, 2019

Going batty in its old age, Poldark’s penultimate episode is so erratic it barely makes sense…

This Poldark review contains spoilers. It was originally published by Den of Geek UK.

Poldark Season 5 Episode 7

Poldark has never trusted its viewers to have much of an attention span. It seems to worry we’ll get bored if a scene lasts any longer than it takes somebody to gaze out of a window and sigh. Conversations are sliced up and filleted to the extent that it can feel as though we're watching a continual procession of arrivals and exits interspersed with snippets of dialogue and the odd screensaver shot of a dewy cobweb or some poignant geese or the glittering Cornish sea.

We’re used to that, but this penultimate episode goes into hyperdrive. Nobody sits still for a second. Carriages rattle back and forth between London and Cornwall...