The Village anyone?

[PenelopePisstop]

Just starting, I'm looking forward to this.

[EverythingIsTicketyBoo]

Too little to late daddy!!!

[LineRunner]

gin I think he means when he gets back. But none of them are coming back...

[ShatnersBassoon]

Yes, it was a bit awkward trying not to react when I'm sitting next to my mum when the boy was masturbating. I just reached for the Radio Times and said "Not sure I can stick 6 episodes of this".

[LadyHarrietdeSpook]

I know Bairn. Sigh.

Gosh now stones are being thrown at a 'German Dog'

[EverythingIsTicketyBoo]

It's over, I have enjoyed this thread more than that bloody programme!

[gingeme]

Phew that was hard work

[LittleBairn]

Ok I admit I'm having a little sob, the lovely teacher giving him the photo.

[gallicgirl]

Hardly compelling.

[LineRunner]

'Compelling' = serious waste of money

[BaconAndAvocado]

LOVED it!

The little boy was amazing, those enormous eyes! Thought Maxine Peake was superb as usual. It was gut wrenching in parts but extremely heart warming in others. Another winner from the Beeb.

[BaconAndAvocado]

Yes, the bit with the lovely teacher and photo had me sobbing!

[LineRunner]

Bacon Are you by chance the commissioning editor?

[ShipwreckedAndComatose]

I will be watching again. Even though it was tough. I felt there was an honesty in it that is perhaps glossed over in Downton and Larkrise.

[PenelopePisstop]

Big disappointment. Nothing making me want to watch next week. As ticketyboo says, the thread was more entertaining than the program.

Don't care enough about the characters, even Bert, who is supposed to be the central character is poor (the script not the actor).

Maxine Peake and John Simm can't save this dirge.

[ShipwreckedAndComatose]

And I did enjoy the thread

[diddl]

Heart warming?

Must have been when I blinked!!

Who was the businessman talking about shoes?

Was all a bit stereotypical, wasn't it?

Also, if it's Bert's memoirs-how does hw know what went on at "the big house" when he wasn't there??

[SirChenjin]

Not quite the light hearted period drama DD and I like to watch together on a Sunday evening once we've banaished the smelly boys to other parts of the house! Still v good though.

Missed the first 10 minutes of it - was the old man at the end the younger brother in old age?

[EverythingIsTicketyBoo]

It was a good thread, not enough in the programme to grab me.

[PenelopePisstop]

Bacon there was nothing heartwarming about it. And definately nothing emotional! Have you got links to the program?

[girliefriend]

I didn't think it was that bad but yes call the midwife it is not!!

Thought young Bert was a good little actor and reminds me how lucky we are not to of been born in that time!! Was at how left handed kids were treated - had no idea

Felt a bit sorry for the dad, think he has lost his way a bit, what did he do that he hasn't been forgiven for?

The worst bit for me was when the boys threw stones at the little dog

[LaurieFairyCake]

I thought it was good, sad though.

That wee boy is gorgeous, he's going to be a heartthrob when older.

[LadyHarrietdeSpook]

On another matter: Foyles war anyone? Or am I clutching at straws post-Downton?

[ithaka]

I watched it purely because it was set in Hayfield & I used to live there. Lovely village - but the series looks a bit gritty for a Sunday night.

[LineRunner]

I went off Anthony Horowitz after Questiontime and then realised I've never much liked Foyles' War either.

[greencolorpack]

I thought, aww they will all end up dying in world war one and then I saw their civilian homelife and thought that the bombs of the Somme might come as a blessed relief to these poor boys of the village!!!

Why does the main character little boy grow up from a brown eyed child to a blue eyed old man? I always notice stupid things like that.