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This is not so much a sequel as a continuation of the adventures of everyone's favorite social climbers. Series 1 ended with a victory for Mapp and Lucia vowing revenge and series 2 begins with Mapp (now Mrs. Mapp-Flynt) returning from her honeymoon. Almost instantly, she and Lucia are back at each other's throats. In this series, politics are added to the mix with both Mapp and Lucia vying for a seat on the town council, Lucia making herself into a charitable saint and Mapp being as underhand as always.

All of the actors from series 1 return (Lovely! I do not like it when shows change actors) Georgie is given more to do this time around. Actually, all of the characters are given more developement which should delight fans of the series.

The series does not end conclusively. I won't give specifics, I'll just say that the social war is bound to continue for all eternity. What a shame there were no more installments into this lovely series.

Once again, the costumes are madly original, the acting is all around superb and the writing is very good indeed.

Anyone who enjoyed series 1 is bound to like this series too (though to what degree depends on their personal taste) and I suggest buying both series at once so that you are not left on a cliff-hanger.

This is a wonderful series and I do hope it comes out on DVD soon. Anyone who loves clean, subtle humor with a twinge of madness would find this series very agreeable indeed. Essential for the anglophile.

Mapp and Lucia VOL 2
Not up to the quality of the first series (5 Stars). Storyline, acting and even makeup are all a little off when compared to the superb first set. Perhaps the gap of several years between shooting contributed to this. I can not see why the other customer reviews rate this series over the first set, which was rich with delightful characters and situations set against a lush English seaside background. Nonetheless, set 2 is a "keeper", and a companion well worth having.

Does it really really have to end?
If possible, the second series of 'Mapp and Lucia' is even better than its predecessor. The success of the first seems to have given confidence to the filmmakers - there is a greater attention to the formal properties of the narrative - a more inventive use of music to comment on or undermine character and situation; a more meaningful use of visual composition.

This, allied to the previously exquisite stylisation (the artificial sets in real locations; the mannered acting; the eye-popping costumes; the stacatto dialogue; the physical expressiveness and the choreography of movement; the rites and pageants; the plot rhythms) combine to create a startlingly modern work of pure artifice, whereby the bizarre wit and the tantalisingly accumulative stories achieve a Wildean pitch (is there a higher compliment?).

This is a comedy of weird detail, excruciating emphasis and jarring juxtapositions, where every simper and twitch counts and reveals. The last episode, 'Au Reservoir', where Lucia seems about to lose it all, and the narrative seems to fragment with her, is almost too painful to watch. Or would be, if it wasn't so painfully funny.