I read that a long time ago. It was very long. I read about George Elliot who was a female and met a male friend and went to France and the friend encouraged her to write. The was around the time of Jane Austen I think. Everything was about finding romance and be married to someone wealthy. So IMHO Middlemarch was very unique for the time. It had rich, poor, struggling doctor etc. And someone who thought he could read and understand the universe. My conclusion was all us people do stupid things, just struggling humans. If you end up happy you’re just lucky.

My daughter started watching so I told her to watch s4 the Anfisa and others. I have stopped watching