The Village anyone?

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Just starting, I'm looking forward to this.

We don't know if Jo is shot.

True.

Well... Am off to bed.

(And hugging my children as they sleep peacefully, sobbing quietly to myself at the sheer luck at being born this half of the century)

I think he will be, though.

It's going to be really fun next series, roaring 20s.

And I second your thoughts,ship

Not sure roaring twenties hit rural Derbyshire,but should be interesting!

Well, I think they see bananas for the first time!

How come 'young' Bert has brown eyes and 'old' Bert has blue eyes?

I'm with Georgina 100%. That was a god awful episode and had me blubbering. But WW1 wasn't all rosy, we would be criticising it if it wasn't true to life.

I think it is bloody brilliant!

Baby Mary made an appearance in the first scenes. And in a small village 100 years ago I can see how Bert could disappear unnoticed, Grace was busy dealing with 2 jobs, the house, baby and Joe. Margaret didn't even know Bert was on his way over.. I grew up in a small village in the 70s and can totally see it happening then!

Brilliant acting, historical accuracy, production and everything!

I agree that was very harrowing but truly fantastic acting. I have been watching with my DD who is just about to sit her GCSE history exam , all about the period.

My mum had a family friend who had deserted in WW1 and managed to escape being shot as he was Irish & returned to Dublin & managed to evade detection. She still tells me his story of shell shock and deserting and tbh up till now I never really gave it much thought nor understanding.

Hmm the cow and scared face man blowing his head off in the barn didn't get explained did it.

Hate the dr in the big house. In fact I don't like any of the males in this aside from joe and bert. They're all dicks.

MarthasHarbour exactly my thoughts. It's amazing. I was gasping with shock at those last few moments.

I suspect if they'd spoken to the real doctor he would have been treated for shellshock. Admittedly the treatment was awful, on a par with what happened to Caro. Thought the MP treatment of Grace was terrible.

It was relentlessly depressing this week wasn't. But I thought the depiction of the shell shock was so good, the photography is fab. I wasn't quite convinced about Juliet Stevenson making the comment about the grocer's impotence. Although I thought the horse riding story was great.

I fwd past weepy bits. Dullo

Shell shock not widely diagnosed. Vcertainly not in the sticks.
Plus a lot less understanding and sympathy IMO.
Typical rewriting of history.

I don't think he would have been treated tbh , I think there was only one way that was going to end. As Georgina said upthread it's only recently that shell shock was recognised.

Yes, I wasn't sure why she did that?

Surely she#s not jealous of Caro & the Dr?

Pissed off as her son is in charge now?

No. It was at the time. But only at the end. And not in Derbyshire I'm sure!!

Oh, was also going to say I think Joe going to find Bert was showing how brave he was, going to get his brother was like him going out to get a friend from no-mans land. The relationship was so strong it helped him overcome his symptoms (which are mental not physical).

Bert is like an unlucky talisman. First he makes the conchie teacher go to war, now his brother.

But in the pub, the MPs were already calling Joe a deserter, weren

Oh yes-Bert had found the bloody shirt which got John put in prison also, hadn't he?

So was it because of Bert that the code was settled on?

Trying to figure out if I like the union man or not. He seems nice, at the moment.

Yes i know he doesn't women working in the factory after the war. However, I'm guessing that was the general thought back then. That the men will come home and go back to their job, as though nothing has happened. Bearing in mind,that we are talking of a time before women had the vote.

Although the factory is supplying army boots-so how much work will there be for the men who come back?

Are Agnes & the Bairstow married?

STAY AWAY FROM BERT