The Village anyone?

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Just starting, I'm looking forward to this.

Yes, also spotted that Idon'tknow - very like his dad but more attractive don't you think?

I'm enjoying this series. We go walking in Derbyshire a lot - don't know it well enough to recognise specific locations but the general feel of the area is very familiar.

I knew John Simms and Maxine Peake would be good but think the young boy is excellent too.

Were those boys handing over sixpence each to little Bert? That was a lot of money in those days! His mum was struggling to find tuppence for her food in the local shop. One boy was asked to give only a penny because he was poor,I'm sure that would have been as much as any child then would have been able to find.

I was on the fence last week, still sitting on it this week, I really can't make up my mind as to whether or not I like it. I'll probably stick with it. If it wasn't for this thread I would be very confused.

why did it take the pregnant girl all that time to look for the dog? wasn't it hurt when she was with Joe and that was 5 months ago. bit confusing.

also is she meant to be not very bright?

I just watched both episodes last night. It was as if they were each written by different writers, the characters were really changed, it made no sense.

And the stereotypical characters...the flighty hysterical maid, the upper class girl seducing the poor but handsome
servant boy...so lazy!!

And I thought it was very handy that John Simm tried to kill himself in full view of his own back garden. As if. And the bit where the wee boy cut the dead woman's wrist. As if times a million.

I'm giving up!

I kept thinking her washing would Dry nicely on the line

Thanks GlaikitFizzog

I think you will probably find that a lot of these things happened more than we might imagine - including servant/master/mistress 'seductions' and all the rest.

I think it is nitty realism of that era.

I watched it last night but thought it was as bleak as the first episode, just in a different way really .

But why did Bert slit the wrists of the old lady? Didn't get that bit at all...

I have a feeling that it will 'grow on one' but we will probably have to watch the whole 100 year saga to get the full measure of it....

Gazzalw, the old lady made him swear to do something she whispered to him, after she said she was worried she would be buried alive.

Joe Armstrong was in Robin Hood. The recent one with Richard Armitage

The old lady asked Bert to make sure she was dead before they buried her. That was why he cut her wrists in front of the paying audience.

Thanks for that SquirtedPerfumeUpNoseInBoots and Sunnymeg - it makes sense but not very nice for the children to witness....;-(

I kept thinking about the washing aswell MrsRobertDuvall. I was in bed watching and thought, I loved a windy day tomorrow I would get loads dry. Maybe if I focused more on the story instead of the washing I would know what the hell is going on.

Was that not Jonas Armstrong Tom?

Jonas Armstrong was Robin Hood. Joe Armstrong was Alan A Dale. That's all I can contribute to this thread as I haven't seen The Village.

Really enjoyimg this. I must be a weirdo.

Only bit that confused me was the first time all the boys gave sixpence. Why?

I found the second episode odd almost like we have missed some info on the characters from the end of the first programme,

I think all the boys gave money to see the aunts dead body.

I'm not sure about tge sixpence thing either. it was a lot of money the, was it to see Yoing Bert slit the old lady's wrist?

Also other things I don't understand are;

why Berts older brother didn't appear to work on the farm

Why Martha suddenly seems so intense about drnking rules, and interested in Bert

why the villagers rounded on Bert because the daughter of The House was pregnant, I mean I know that he got his wife's sister pregnant and she killed herself, but why did they care? Especially seeing the general attitude to life and respect for women isn't coming across as all that high

I couldn't understand that either, why is Martha suddenly trying to counsel bert???

I thought Martha was getting involved with counselling John because a she cares about Joe, and because she cares about Grace (all the women have a sisterhood thing going on in the bathhouse).

I think they rounded on John when odd girl got pregnant because eh was seen talking to her and grabbing hold of her, and he went to the house for slops so is a known drunkard.

There is something just not right about it. It's got all the ingredients to be be great but it isn't. It's hard going, mystifying and most of the characters are unlikeable. John Simm and Maxine Peake are doing their best but they've not got much in the way of a decent script to work with.

How Juliet Stevenson keeps a straight face with some of those lines I'll never know. I expected Victoria Wood to pop up at any moment.

The vicars daughter and the pub scene? What was that all about?

And the detective? what as the crime ? The dead dog?

Won't be watching again it's too much like hard work. I'd rather walk round Rochdale with a nail in my shoe.

Oh yes Kurri, I get why they rounded on him was supposed to be because of the pregnancy, what I don't get is how come they cared to do so. it doesn't seem fitting to the rest of the attitudes that have been put across.

Am I making any sense?