TV series
Weir of Hermiston
1973 · 1 season
A dour, talk-heavy period drama of cold family resentment and moral conflict, unfolding slowly with theatrical gravity.
- Created by
- Tina Wakerell
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Tom Fleming, David Rintoul, Tom Watson
- Overview
- The old Lord Adam Weir of the Hermiston estate on the Scots borders is a gruff, boozy, hanging judge - the terror of Edinburgh law courts. His wife is a tremulous and pious Christian. Weir spends his time putting his wife down, even in the company of her only son, Archie. His mother dead of depression and stress, Archie grow to hate his father, but then goes into law studies, though his more modern and tolerant values clash with those of his father. Attending the hanging of yet another of his father's victims, Archie can no longer stand it and denounces his father publicly. As punishment he is rusticated to manage the family estate, Hermiston.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Family, power, justice, guilt
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Tina Wakerell
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Tom Fleming, David Rintoul, Tom Watson
