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A finely milled soap; Before the Ewings and the Carringtons came along, the Forsyte family captured viewers' attention with stories of money, power, forbidden love.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20021004
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Byline: M.S. Mason Television critic of The Christian Science Monitor

Compassion is not the most highly prized virtue among the Victorian England characters of John Galsworthy's riveting century-old "The Forsyte Saga" (Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, Sundays, Oct.6-Nov. 17, check local listings).

Instead, the Forsytes' "family values" have a lot more to do with making money and conventional propriety than they do with goodness, kindness, or selfless love. But don't judge them too harshly because most of them evolve. That evolution is exactly why the story never releases us ...

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