The Hardacres

I watched the first episode on Netflix yesterday it looks very interesting I shall be following it I just love those period series

^I’m a bit of a stickler for detail in period dramas.
I counted 4 oil lamps burning in the daytime while the wife is scratching about for money to pay the rent.^

Me too, Petra ... buying a barrel of fish, the paper bags to put them in, and they still had enough to feed the dog and horse. Then they earned £250,000, enough to buy the mansion !!! Whaaat? People can't do that nowadays doing proper jobs.

Life's too short to watch any more.

They didn't 'earn' the money to buy the mansion selling the herring - that came from the investment they made in the gold mining company.

I thought is was very weak indeed and switched channels. Clumsily acted and poor sets and costumes - they all looked so darned clean and tidy! Not for me. Not a patch on the likes of Downton with its meticulous detail and excellent acting.

I liked their financial advisor. Otherwise it registered pretty high on my drossometer.

MissInterpreted

They didn't 'earn' the money to buy the mansion selling the herring - that came from the investment they made in the gold mining company.

Yes, it was a wise investment. And £250,000 in those days was the equivalent of several millions now!

I enjoyed it, it’s not Downton but on a miserable dark wet evening it was a welcome distraction.

No comments about this week’s episode yet.

Have decided I’m not keen on Mary, the mother, and even less keen on the old mother in law, her mother.

In fact, don’t warm to any of the characters really, but will keep watching to see how it pans out.

I watched episode 2 last night. I’ll stick with it for now but a very large pinch of salt might be required at the start of each episode.

The first morning waking up in their new mansion was a stretch of the imagination. They all had new perfectly fitting clothes and just fell into the morning routine of going downstairs and expecting breakfast to be ready. Unless they’d previously worked in service how would they even know that’s how the other half live?

Judging by the preview shown of next week’s it looks like the dock workers are going to be even worse off with the Hardacres predictably now owning the dockyard fish business . The eldest son is going to be a nasty piece of work as their boss. I hope his father reins him in.

I've recorded it but having watched the first episode I'm not impressed. DH didn't like it at all. I will watch the next episode and see how it goes.

I have watched the first two episodes haven’t read the books.

Easy viewing if you do not analyse every minute detail.

A pleasant change from current day based dramas.

Implausible.
Agree with Lucky girl

And a shame because it could have been very watchable.

Completely unrealistic and superficial.

Nothing to like about it so switched off in the middle of the second episode. Frothy and lacking any sense of reality. None of the characters are endearing.

Watched another episode .
And I think that the problem is this - it's been raced through .
Without pacing the rags to riches story doesn't ring true and the anticipation of better days doesn't build up .

The trailer put me off, so haven’t bothered with it. The exaggerated Yorkshire accents were one thing which grated on me, too (and I’m a Yorkshire lass through and through), and to be honest the trailer just didn’t sell it to me, it portrayed the programme as far as I’m concerned as a lot of stereotypical nonsense.

I’ll put it in the category of a series that I’ll make a point of watching but wouldn’t be bothered if I missed an episode.

I’ve just to delete it from my recordings , it’s rubbish

Actually I’m not that impressed with the latest “ All Creatures” either

aggie

Actually I’m not that impressed with the latest “ All Creatures” either

They do seem to have a thing about housekeepers although I like Mrs. Hall on ACGAS.

I’ve put The Hardacres in my daft but just about watchable category.

aggie

I’ve just to delete it from my recordings , it’s rubbish

Ditto

It gets dafter.

So what exactly did they serve the Duchess and the other posh ladies at this ‘gala’ afternoon tea?

A fried herring each? Accompanied by what?

Anyone else think that Joe, the conniving nasty son, looks like a young James Bolam?

Thanks Calendargirl. I spent half the programme trying to think who he looked like!

All a bit silly and unbelievable but rather that than the testosterone and lip filler fuelled rubbish that seems to dominate these days.

Yes, he is so much like a young James Bolam that I googled his name to see if there was a link - but there didn't seem to be!

I’m recording it and watching it on Sunday evenings when there’s not much else on. It’s not that bad.