All Creatures Great and Small
This week’s All Creatures Great & Small carries the punch and emotional weight of the season finale it was in the U.K. (Here in the U.S.A., the season finale is the Christmas Special, airing next week). It’s a moving and brilliant episode as our beloved
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All Creatures Great & Small opens with Mrs. Hall on a train to meet her estranged son Edward. It’s been some time since we heard about Edward and his no-showing to Skeldale House’s annual Christmas party, but he represents a particularly painful part of Audrey Hall’s life.
All Creatures Great and Small
All Creatures Great & Small opens with the reveal Tristan and Florence Pandhi are no longer enemies, and as suspected, very attracted to each other. Tristan is coming into his own, revealing strength of character as well as easy charm, but Siegried has trouble dealing with change. He’s been
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Despite his outward confidence and success in All Creatures Great & Small, senior veterinarian Siegfried Farnon is a haunted man. Like many of his generation who survived The Great War (World War I), he suffers from PTSD, or “shell shock,” as it was then called. It is not something he
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All Creatures Great & Small Season 3 returns for its second episode with James and Helen back from the official honeymoon, but never fear; they are blissfully happy. James, full of anticipation, drives home from a night call and dashes into Skeldale House and up the stairs to the attic
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The opening sequence of All Creatures Great and Small Season 3 echoes the series premiere as James drives his car through the spectacular green scenery that impressed him when he first arrived. But this time, he pulls over to watch a plane flying low overhead, captivated by the pilot’s
All Creatures Great and Small
It was peak timing when the All Creatures Great and Small reboot debuted its first season in the winter of 2021. The first miserable lockdown of winter required the bright and sunny dales of Yorkshire and the notes of comfort and hope the show provided. James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) was
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The Television Critics Association press tour dedicates two days to PBS' myriad offerings, with one of the leading slots going to Masterpiece. This year, the anthology series trumpeted the ongoing hits All Creatures Great and Small and Miss Scarlet and The Duke, and the highly anticipated Magpie Murders, which
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The year 2021 is a big one for anniversaries on PBS. It's the tenth anniversary of Downton Abbey's premiere season; it's the 25th anniversary of the show's first major rebrand from Masterpiece Theater. (The series become Mobile Masterpiece Theater in 1998, which
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Popular mystery series Grantchester returns to Masterpiece at last, starting the long-awaited third season off with the series' first Christmas special, which orginally aired in between Seasons 2 and 3, in December of 2016. Leonard: As Brecht tells us: "Art is not a mirror with which to reflect
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Grantchester, the period drama about crime solving Anglican priest Sidney Chambers and his partner Inspector Geordie Keating returns this weekend with Christmas in June. Geordie: Sometimes, Sidney, I really do think that you must have God on your side. Sidney: I certainly hope so. Another round, Inspector? - Sidney Chambers
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Poldark Season 3 arrives on BBC One in only a few days. Unfortunately for us here in the United States, it won't air on PBS until October. How to cope? One of the hardest things about being an anglophile here in the United States is how long it