Poldark returns for series three this Sunday.

If youve never had the pleasure, heres what youve been missing…

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Warning: contains spoilers forPoldarkseries one and two.

Welcome to eighteenth century Cornwall, land of sumptuous landscapes, confusing personal pronouns and Captain Ross Poldark.

The bearer of an ancient name and a tousled mane, Poldarks the hero around this way.

(Well, he is until series two episode seven, but were getting ahead of ourselves).

Hes a gentleman rebel given to fits of temper and anguished clifftop gallops in pursuit of love and justice.

He lives twenty per cent of his life as a dramatic silhouette.

Or staring mournfully out of a window.

Or gazing intensely at the horizon from a picturesque clifftop.

He has a fist fight roughly every third episode.

Justice, you see, is very much Poldarks bag; less so, the law.

His Robin Hood politics often find him on the wrong side of the latter in pursuit of the former.

Capn Ross is none of these.

Such behaviour, as you might expect, makes Ross an oddity amongst the gentry.

If Ross Poldark loves the common folk so much, why doesnt he just go and marry one?

He does, of course, which ruffles the hat feathers of societys elegant ladies no end.

Ross and Elizabeth having the hots for each other but being married to other people isPoldarks big main thing.

Soon though, shes a gleaming vision of red curls, green eyes and bony elbows.

Free of grime, shes immediately more beautiful than the local women and the Cornish landscapes combined.

Think Merida fromBraveas painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Theirs isnt what youd call a long courtship.

A child soon follows, then sadly perishes of Putrid Throat even the diseases inPoldarkhaving excellent names.

To begin with, the new Mr and Mrs Poldark have few allies.

In the upper echelons, only Ross kind cousin Verity (Ruby Bentall) offers them congratulations.

But hell never love me, she says, and thats okay.

She never expected half her luck in marrying such a man.

Does Ross love Demelza?

We get on he smiles in answer to that very question.

And they do mostly, until series two at least.

Whatever her gratitude to Ross, in truth, being mistress of Nampara puts Demelza in a difficult position.

As she says, shes betwixt and between, neither one thing nor the other.

Suffice to say, Ross stopped being a hero in many a fans opinion that episode.

Demelzas a marvel, and worth a hundred of the toffee-nosed snobs who call her an upstart troll.

Aunt Agatha is, its fair to say, the absolute bollocks.

When Francis exclaims whats the matter with the women in this family?

Aunt Agatha wryly answers the men!

It wasnt the gun to his head that killed him though; Francis drowned in his and Ross mine.

Thats right,Poldarkisnt only an escapist idyll about pilchards and pouting.

Theres also an enormous amount of stuff about mining.

Peasants with candles tied to their waistcoatswhich was the style at the timerely on the mines for a living.

The mines are always causing Mr Ross to say things like damn this ironstone!

The peasants are another key feature.

While Jane Austen adaptations are largely free of frayed-buttonhole types,Poldarkloves a pauper.

The Cornish vulgars sang constantly, on account of Candy Crush not having been invented yet.

In series one, their chief occupations are grinning in slow-motion and being thankful to Mr Ross.

Shes probably still alive today if you take the train down to Cornwall and care to look her up.

Theres much more toPoldarkthan topless scything though.

Its truly gorgeous stuff.

Give it a go why dont you.

Poldark series three starts on Sunday the 11thof June at 9pm on BBC One.