Leo Suter

After the shock announcement that Sanditon Season 2 and 3 are officially on their way, star Theo James confirms he won't be back.

Period drama Beecham House ends much the way it lived – as a ridiculous, nonsensical mess that should have been much better than it turned out to be.

In the penultimate episode of Beecham House, it’s more obvious than ever that someone somewhere expected this series to get another season. Because with just one more episode to go after this one, the show is busily expanding stories rather than wrapping them up, and it feels all the more frustrating because it’s so clear we’ll never see them all concluded satisfactorily.

The truth about John Beecham’s past comes to light in a ridiculously over the top episode of Beecham House that is simultaneously eye-rollingly predictable and also much more entertaining than anything that’s come before.

Here’s a fact that may surprise you: With this episode, we’re now officially halfway through Beecham House. Doesn’t it...feel like we should be further along in this story? Or, at least, really even know what the story the show’s trying to tell is?

Beecham House is so frustrating precisely because it should be good. On paper, it’s a story that hasn’t really be done before, set in a period we rarely get to see in shows like this. In actuality, however, it’s a trope-filled retread with tremendously dull storytelling, generally unlikeable characters and a chaotic plot that is so messy I can’t even summarize it easily.

New Masterpiece period drama Beecham House is stunning to look at. The sets are lush, the costumes are beautiful and the world of late eighteenth-century Delhi leaps to life onscreen.

Unfortunately, the show’s beautiful veneer is forced to cover over a multitude of cracks.

The controversial ending to period drama Sanditon has left fans reeling, and many wonder - what's next? Here's what we know about the show's future, and whether you can expect to see Sidney and Charlotte again. 

Despite much to recommend it, Sanditon's final hour is ultimately disappointing, a largely incoherent hour that feels like a bait and switch of what we were all initially promised, as viewers

The penultimate episode of Sanditon wraps up what feels like a lot of loose ends, which leaves me wondering exactly what sort of story the finale is aiming to tell.