Les Misérables episode five recap – vive la révolution!

It’s the barricade-building we’ve all been waiting for. So why were so manyrevolutionaries trying to get drunk instead?So here it was! Raggedy flags, crowd scenes, moustachioed faces of determination and a single shot fired as an officer fell from his horse. This was the sweeping depiction of revolution the series promised and, cinematically speaking, it was brilliant. Build the barricade! Vive la révolution! This bit was never going to be pretty, and the importance of the las