kathryn-40824 Love this show as my family came from India. My dad has frequently told me about the many dances he attended and the opulent lifestyle that the family led while living in India. My Great Grandfather was known as 'Car Pop' due to the amount of cars he had back in the early 1900's in India. I have so many photos of dinners, cars and camping trips, trains and military in India. The show helps me understand how life may have been for both the British and the Indians. Though it may not all be factual ,it is still a great show to watch. I thoroughly enjoy the story line, cast and settings. Cant wait to see the next series of Indian Summers. The Indian actors are all great.

mypoint99 Indian Summers ain't no Downton Abbey. It barely meets the mark as a show worthy to be on Masterpiece Theater. Only the gorgeous scenery and the historical context make the show worth a tiny bit of time, but I could google photos and read some books and get more out of it than I have gotten from Indian Summers.I have watched every episode thus far, waiting, hoping that I would finally experience some logical character development. No such luck. Last Sunday's episode turned out to be the new nadir. Bright spots are easy to discern as there are so few of them:1) the storyline between McLeod and Sood has a lot of potential, and someone should write an entire series exploring this time period through the relationship between those two men. That would be fascinating.2) the scenery is gorgeous, and almost makes me want to travel there, except for the fact that reality today falls very short of the fantasy portrayed in the showThat's about it for the bright spots.I am undecided if I will continue to watch the show. I do have a compulsion to finish what I have started, so I probably will, but I won't be happy as I watch it. I don't care for any of these characters. Only Dalal's father would be good company. The rest give me the creeps.This is not a family show, either. Keep your remote handy in order to avoid the unnecessary simulated sex scenes. I don't watch HBO for a reason, and don't like Masterpiece Theater programs resembling those other cable shows.Lastly, can someone please increase the budget for dialect training? Why do the British dialect teachers and the actors themselves keep perceiving Americans as talking with such absurd dialects? This is a common problem in BBC shows for many years. Those actors assigned to play the Americans are evidently told to pronounce every vowel as if their faces were being stretched wide in order to get the most annoying sounds ever. No Americans sound like this. Never did. Perhaps this is on purpose - make the American characters sound as foolish as possible. Could be. In any case, it's annoying and stupid.My family would love to find another Downton Abbey, but we will wait patiently for it. Poldark has been our most favorite of the recent series. If Indian Summers is renewed, it won't be on our viewing watchlist.

eastcoastguyz We have come to expect more from Masterpiece Theater, but this is so shocking dull I can't believe it was even encouraged. Someone must have done one hell of a sales pitch in a meeting to get this project green-lighted. It moves at a nail's pace and at the end of a 2 hour episode you feel completely drained and realize you just wasted your time. A re-run of Downton Abbey in Season 1 would be a much better investment in your time. So consider this a friendly heads-up, this is not a well put together story. It lacks clear identification of the characters, their purpose and motivation of why they are there and what they expect to accomplish. At best it isn't even an interesting story or premise to hang on to. It was all I could do to stay awake because I was expecting some sense of what I was watching that never came.

StevenSmithNYC I had high hopes for this since it's a Masterpiece brand production, but it was painful to get through the first episode. The trailer on the PBS website for this shows this woman singing within a party of guests. Must have been watching it for 20 minutes before she even had some kind of screen time because we completely forgot about her. A total disconnect in the marketing of this. Then she had almost nothing to do within the story, if you could call the constant unfolding of people and places a story. This comes across like it was adapted from a book that was rich with detail and descriptions of the people and situations, but the screenwriter left out those details in their writing. Why should people have to work so hard to watch something where they need an episode guide of everyone's names and all that just to follow what is going on. It's not Wanger's Ring Cycle being sung in another language that you should need a road map to what you are seeing just to make sense out of it. You see couples together and you don't know if they are brother and sister or not, or if they are married or not, or if they are just friends. You see people together and you don't know if they are master and servant or friends. A guy rushes off the train to aid a sick child and we don't know if he's a doctor or not, we don't know if the woman with him is a nurse or not. This is just an example of the compounding of exposition that takes place where by the end of episode 1, you don't have a clue what you watched except it has nice cinematographer which might be the only reason to see this and that's with the sound off while munching on a bag of chips talking with friends or listening to music. But I'm sure you have far better things to do with your time than watch this pointless drivel.