The Village anyone?

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Just starting, I'm looking forward to this.

Nuhich yes you are making sense - I guess it is because it is a daughter of the Big House, - I don't suppose anyone would care if it was a village woman. And I suppose the Big House people themselves can't believe it could be anything other than rape because, how else could she possibly have got pregnant??

But having said that - the plotting is pretty woolly!

Why were the sixpences going around the first time though? Something to do with getting caned?

Maybe Old Bert is just making it all up for a laugh.

Only trouble is kurri no-ones laughing, we are all to depressed.

Oh i watched both episodes on iplayer earlier and.... really really enjoyed it!

Waaaaaaayyy superior to downton.

Cinematic. Love John Simm and Maxine Peake. Thought the boy was great. Caro mad as mad can be. Want to know what happened to her father's face. The MP son is creepy and the younger son is going to shaft Joe now he knows he is the father, and that the methodist woman turned him down.

The first lot of sixpences was a sort of book on who could get caned the most I think. Or who could wind the twat of a teacher up the most.

I get the feeling joe isn't coming back though, just something in the way old bert spoke about the postcard. I could be wrong, many things don't make sense. I felt like I'd missed a couple of episodes last night, there was no obvious flow from last week.

42 episodes...................

I thought the boy was Bert and the father was John.

I think the crime being investigated was the alleged abuse of Caro. They were suggesting it had been going on for a long period because she was 5 months pregnant and then he was "witnessed" attacking her that day. Shes not of sound mind, so I suppose any sexual activity could be seen as rape.

Yes you're right the father is John its the younger son that's bert, god im hopeless with the names of characters!!

Caro (line?) isn't very bright. In the first episode she was mindlessly repeating the ends of her mother's sentences at the dining table during a conversation.

I wondered why John Simm tried to kill himself in full view of his own back garden if he really wanted to kill himself. Then I realised there weren't that many other trees nearby. Or maybe he wasn't thinking straight.

The bit where the wee boy cut the dead woman's wrist... but maybe he was so desperate to make some money that's what spurred him on. Also he always seemed to have the knife on him so maybe he was pretty handy with it. He handed it to his mum to cut the cord when she'd had the baby.

Why Berts older brother didn't appear to work on the farm - in the first episode Bert's older brother was the waterman at the big house, before he enlisted. Bert said in his narration that it was the beginning of Joe trying to escape the farm.

Peggy is still a total mystery

I think John Simm's character's hanging was attention seeking - the ultimate woe is me. Obviously it would've been successful after a few more minutes, but if he'd really wanted to do it then surely he would've jumped off the box a bit harder and done the job.
I really like the programme. The last few minutes of this episode had me captivated, from when Bert gave the money to John, then you saw that instead of pissing it away he'd bought a cow, and then they were all so happy with the baby....

Who is Peggy?

John Simms character gives me the creeps, he is an abuser who is intimidating unpredictable and attention seeking one minute then tries to be a family man the next, good acting!!

I'm sort of enjoying it, but having to ignore a lot of stuff I really don't think makes sense - the boys having sixpence apiece, Caro not being sent away somewhere to have the baby, calling a detective (?!), Grace not having tuppence for a loaf but going to the bathhouse - surely that cost money. And would a large village/small town have a bathhouse - I thought it was all the tin bath in front of the range in those days.

I'll probably continue to watch - perhaps the new baby will herald a little more joy!

There seems to be some gaps in the storytelling and some characters need fleshing out to make sense.

please can someone explain to me why the villages had to face the walls when the wealthy family walked through?

I'm starting to like Martha, couldn't stand her to begin with but she is growing on me.

sherazade, I think it's because he doesn't want anyone to see his face, he always has a scarf thing wrapped around it. Must be badly disfigured.

ahh ellenora5, that makes sense, thanks.

You saw how disfigured he was last episode. He came out into the hallway upstairs.

Apparently he has hideous scarring from Zulu war.

I'm guessing the villagers comply otherwise they'll get booted out. I really wanted someone he had no control over to refuse to turn away

Didn't the detective just stand and look at him?

Well just caught up with both episodes. I am enjoying it.

Why was that maid panting and covering her mouth though ?

The Allingham brothers look really alike don't they. The younger one was in About a boy, played Rachel Weiz's son.

What has the guy playing the shoemaker been in-it's driving me mad!!

diddl - he has been in Red Riding, Shameless and prisoners Wives - was it any of those?