![]() just before the Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861). ![]() ![]() *Around the end of Episode I, Brett Main Hazard (Genie Francis) – a South Carolina belle who had recently married Pennsylvania-born army officer, Billy Hazard (Parker Stevenson) - and her maid, Semiramis (Erica Gimpel), had left Washington D.C. In fact, some of these changes really did nothing to serve the miniseries’ story, except pad it unnecessarily in order to ensure that it would last six episodes.īelow are some examples of the questionable plotlines I found in "BOOK II": ![]() But I found some of the changes in ”BOOK II” to be very questionable. Despite some flaws, I had no problems with most of the changes in "BOOK I" and "BOOK III". None of the three miniseries were exact copies of the novels from which they had been adapted. But looking at the three miniseries from the prospective of a writer, I have finally come to the conclusion that it was ”BOOK II” (set during the Civil War), and not ”BOOK III” that ended up being a lot more disappointing to me. And of the three miniseries, ”NORTH AND SOUTH: BOOK II” had the best costume designs. After all, the production values for ”BOOK III” had not been as impressive as the other two. In the eyes of many fans of the trilogy of miniseries based upon John Jakes’ saga, ”The NORTH AND SOUTH Trilogy”, the only miniseries not worthy of the entire saga is the third one - ”HEAVEN AND HELL: North and South Book III”. THE MAJOR PROBLEMS OF "NORTH AND SOUTH: BOOK II" (1986) ![]()
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