YMMV / Gentleman Jack

• Awesome Music: Murray Gold's theme for the opening credits is a combination of a driving drum beat and jaunty strings which perfectly encapsulate Anne Lister's character.
• Escapist Character: Anne Lister is this, especially to WLW audiences. She's charming, intelligent, independent, self-confident, romantic, and completely and unapologetically herself, and she can charm nearly any lady she likes. A common joke among WLW viewers is that they don't know if they want to be Anne or be with her.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Eliza Priestley goes from friendly old lady to hated antagonist after she deliberately walks in on Anne and Ann, then outs them to all her acquaintances and turns Ann's friend Miss Parkhill against them, triggering Ann's mental breakdown.
  • Rev. Ainsworth crossed it a long time ago when he raped Ann.
• The Woobie: Ann Walker is a closeted, mentally ill woman with cripplingly low self-esteem. 4 out of 8 episodes in season one, she cries over the thought of Anne abandoning her because she is sexually inexperienced, the prospect of her rapist proposing marriage, her inability to reconcile her religion and homosexuality, and auditory hallucinations. These issues eventually lead Ann to attempt suicide with broken glass in Scotland.

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