There’s lots to like about Tom Jones the Henry Fielding novel and nothing not to like about Tom Jones the ITV adaptation. The costumes – wigs! Bodices! Gowns! Tricorn hats! – are irresistible.
Since you’re asking, Solly McLeod as the eponymous Tom Jones – fresh faced, adorably roguish public schoolboy – is indeed terrifically Poldark, without the brooding element. The plot is, as the writer Gwyneth Hughes, puts it, “the mother of all romcoms”.
