YMMV / Tipping the Velvet (2002)

• Best Known for the Fanservice: Is that the series about Victorian lesbians? Sweet.
• Hollywood Homely: Plain Nan passes as a rent boy for a few years on the street. Rachael Stirling, who plays her in the TV adaptation, is never anything but a gorgeous young woman in boy drag.
• Narm:
  • There's nothing wrong with the acting, but The BBC for some reason got very overexcited and tried to fill what was essentially a period drama with special effects. This includes slowmo, fastmo, PEOPLE RANDOMLY TURNING NEGATIVE WHEN KISSING EACH OTHER...
  • Not to mention Nan's big "NOOOOOOOOOO" when she walks in to find Kitty and Walter having just had sex
  • The opening credits with the SLOWMO OYSTERS FALLING FROM THE SKYYYYYYY
  • Nan's somewhat stupid narration. Yes, they had to simplify the story to make it easier to understand for people who hadn't read the book. But the narration did make her sound hopelessly naive and a bit on the wrong side of thick.
  • The "there's a rose... in my heart... for youuuuuuu." Didn't happen quite like this in the book. The moment was so filled with narm (slowmo spinning rose!) that when French and Saunders parodied it they barely had to change anything.
• Retroactive Recognition: In the TV adaptation, Freddie is played by a very young-looking Benedict Cumberbatch, while a young Sally Hawkins plays Zena Blake.