New drama The Village starting tonight at 9pm

I only watched the first one - I found it a bit depressing.

Endeavour was very good tonight - I think the chap who plays the young Morse is excellent - and his boss.

I'm going to have to catch up on iPlayer as it clashed with Endeavour. I save it for when DH is watching football which seems to be on a lot these days.

Well it had everything, crikey, the baby, the death penalty and the horse. Guaranteed hanky time.

Hands up anyone who didn't cry at the end of this weeks episode [sniff]...

I'm enjoying it. When the violence gets too much I close my eyes and Dh tells me when it is safe to open them. I feel it will be worth sticking with. I will watch John Sim and Maxine Peake in anything.

...a lot of it makes no sense whatsoever [eg where did all the children have money to pay towards the cow; surely even their parents didn't have money to spare at that time]..and what was the [spoiler alert] bedroom, bucket etc scene all about, or am I just a bit thick?

Am I the only one to be saying, every now and again,
'What has that got to do with anything?'
I am enjoying it tho'...... I think!

Yes, Maxine is really good, but John Simm seems far too well spoken to be a poor farmer.
The hanging was a bit too graphic for me, although it was well done

Well, I'm going to stick with it, but it's not exactly a barrel of laughs, is it . Maxine Peake is superb, though.

It felt too studied to me - I was very aware that everybody was acting. I also found it jumped from one thing to another and it was difficult to believe in the characters. Perhaps it will improve - I'll give it another go next week.

Yes; there was definately a touch of the Lady Chatterleys ...and [a la Hardy] one feels that happy endings are going to be very few and far on the ground .

I'm not sure about it, but might give it one more go to make sure. The music annoyed me, because the switches from one mood to another were so obvious - light and happy to dark and brooding in a split second. The story feels like Hardy crossed with Lawrence but on a fairly basic level. Oh, I don't know...

I had recorded this and have started watching it this evening. Sorry to admit that I stumbled through half an hour before admitting defeat. I can't stand anything with violence these days and won't be watching the rest of the series.
I find it very strange that my tolerance of violence has altered so dramatically. I used to watch horror films and such like but now I just can't face anything with cruelty or violence.
I may be totally wrong about this series - but it's not for me

Tegan It is said to be the mark of the devil or a witch, a superstition that probably dates from mediaeval times. I have often heard it referred to as the devils paw.

As I have different coloured eyes, one blue, one green, as well as the devils paw I think I would have been a likely candidate for being burnt at the stake.

As we wrote with fountain pens I suppose I did find it more difficult. I can remember my Mum buying me a pen with a curved nib it cost her a princely 7/6d and I was threatened with pain of death if I ever lost it.

Marelli and specki I was lucky coming from a coven of lefties it was considered natural but I do feel strongly about the harsh treatment that others received.

Both my sons are right-handed as are two of my grandchildren but my youngest grandson seems to strongly favour his left-hand at the moment.

It depends what one regards as entertainment. Can anyone enlighten me on what constitutes 'entertainment'. After I watched The Village I turned over and watched the ITV programme about The Brontes. It wasn't exactly 'laugh a minute' but I enjoyed it immensely.

Like others,I had to turn it off because of the violence towards the boys - I just cannot bear to watch violence against children or animals. Even the adverts for the NSPCC have to be switched off in my house. My father was naturally left handed - his father hit him with a steel ruler when he saw him using his left hand. My Dad became ambidextrous, developed a slight stammer and was fearful for the rest of his life. He was a lovely man and it breaks my heart to think of my grandfather's cruelty towards him.

What exactly constitutes entertainment in this kind of drama?

I watched lasy night, found it a little slow but that often happens when they are trying to set the characters down, it was harrowing but its as it was thrn, so why should they soften it up for the viewer. I think I am going to enjoy it.

Was George V1 not left-handed and because he was forced to write with his right hand, it resulted in him having a stammer?

It's impossible to believe sometimes that such things as being left handed were frowned upon. I wonder if there's some strange reason for it, like not being able to use a gun or operate machinery [or something like that]? Although I suppose that, before biros were invented it was difficult to write with pen and ink if you were left handed, so maybe it wasn't regarded as wrong as such but they felt it neded to be corrected as it would cause problems job wise later on.

Teganbeing left-handed in the 50/60s was still a crime but the punishment was much less severe. I'm still a lefty and proud of it

I liked it. Aged 10, I used to receive 'two of the taws' (2 strokes of the belt) each Tuesday afternoon when I wasn't able to recite Burns' poetry. Having just arrived in Fife after having been born and brought up in Nottingham, it was no wonder I wasn't able to speak broad Scots! That's how it was in 1960, and most definitely was in 1914!
I like Maxine Peake, and think she was really good last night.

i thoroughly enjoyed the first episode of " the village " last night, and looking forward to the next one x

Just watching the recording of episode 1 - it is a bit slow-moving. Hope to get into it as it goes on.

Given that one of the people involved [the writer?] did The Lakes many years ago [also starring John Simm] this was never going to be Downton Abbey. Even Lark Rise turned into a parody of itself [if that's the right word ]. I think I could watch John Simm in just about anything [and do].

Not sure whether I'll stick with it - a bit too slow with long periods of silence and inactivity. I too found certain parts hard to watch. It's probably not fair to judge on one episode so will be tuned in next week.