'Poldark': Season 3, Episode 4 Recap

Previously on Poldark: Vile George decides to offer Morwenna in marriage to a particularly awful and odious man named Reverend Whitworth, just because he has rich family connections. This plan runs into a small roadblock in the form of Morwenna who, possessing free will and insisting she doesn’t love this creep, runs into Drake’s arms the first chance she gets. Elsewhere, Ross saves the day by helping to bring grain to starving villagers and giving a bunch of former Wheal Leisure employees jobs after George fires them. And Warleggan wonders why people like Ross best. You can read the rest of our recap from last week here, if you need more detail.

This week’s episode of Poldark is slightly less fun than last week’s, if only because the really long boring battle scenes where people fire guns at each other in poorly lit confined spaces are back, and they add less than nothing to the show.

Morwenna makes a hard choice. Instead of being sad and bored back at Trenwith as George assumed, Morwenna is busy canoodling with Drake, catching (ugh, what) frogs with Geoffrey Charles and just generally living her best life. Or, at least, she is until Aunt Agatha decides to give her The Talk about how inappropriate her relationship with Drake is. She highlights not only their differences in station, but the fact that Vile George is a cruel jerk, who will doubtless make Drake’s life a living hell once he finds out about Drawenna’s love affair, for the simple reason that Drake is connected to Ross.