He was violent and forced her into sex using passages from the holy book to justify his requests. Morwenna and Reverend Whitworth’s union was unhappier than we had feared. RIP, Agatha, but at least you wiped the smug smile from “Georgie’s” lips and threw an even bigger spanner in the already very messy works that is Ross and Demelza’s marriage.Įlsewhere, it became apparent that If you are going to marry a reverend, you should know your bible quotations – if only to defend yourself from unwanted advances. With her dying breath, she dropped the clanger that poor little Valentine might not be his after all.

He cancelled her party and in doing so, any zest for life she had left. Nasty George discovered Agatha was not turning 100 as thought, but was actually approaching 98. My next piece of advice is somewhat obvious then: don’t forget your own birthday. “Mind that pin, I don’t wish to be bled like a stuck pig,” she said as her maid altered her frock for her ill-fated bash. She delivered some of the show's best lines and brought welcome comedy, not least this instalment. It was a sad episode in that we lost Caroline Blakiston as Ross’s great aunt Agatha. Ross did at least have the decency to look embarrassed by it all. If that wasn’t bad enough, Lord Falmouth (James Wilby) then joined the party to raise another glass to thank the “Hero of Quimper” for rescuing his nephew Hugh Armitage (Josh Whitehouse) from the French.

New(ish) hubby Doctor Enys thanked his bride, played by Gabriella Wilde, but it was Aidan Turner’s brooding maverick who got the final and most enthusiastic toast. He managed to steal Caroline Penvenen’s limelight on her big day, despite her fashioning an elaborate hair do out of six labradoodles for the occasion. Lesson one: concerned about being upstaged at your own wedding? Then strike Capt’n Ross Poldark off the guest list. Okay, so that last one was a lie, producers have still kept him gratuitously topless at every opportunity, but there was a lot going on in this episode and it was the best of the series so far – plus it also taught us a few valuable life lessons. Conveniently, that meant Morwenna (Ellise Chappell) was now up the duff with odious toe-sucker Reverend Ossie Whitworth’s baby, Dwight Enys (Luke Norris) appeared to have got over his PTSD unconvincingly fast, Aunt Agatha’s one hundredth birthday jamboree was looming and drippy Drake (Harry Richardson) had learned to put his shirt on while mooning about on the beach looking out into the middle distance. The action in this seventh episode jumped forward several months. Time moves quickly down in the south west, apparently.

Poldark season 2 episode 7 recap