Clarkson's Farm (TV Series) Pan (dem) icking (2021) User Reviews

I didn't want to like this show

[billjones-74006 · 10/10 · 13 June 2021]

Honestly, I always thought Jeremy Clarkson was an overgrown teenage boy. At times, in Top Gear and Grand Tour, he was amusing. But I found him a shallow set piece for Richard Hammond and James May to play against. It is obvious that Clarkson is much smarter than he appears to be on the car shows. In this farm show he proves he is really a very good journalist and probably not a bad guy to raise a pint with (before watching this show I always thought May would be the one most interesting to spend time with in a pub, now, I'm not so sure).

It is amazing to me that he can make owning a 1000 acre farm accessible to an ordinary viewer. How many people can afford a 1000 acre farm???

He tells the story in such a manner that we want him to succeed. What a talent. We want the crop to grow, we want the sheep to thrive. We want the nature areas to be reclaimed. We want him to be able to sell potatoes and eggs and honey and wasabi. If I could own 1000 acres I'd want all of that! And even someone like me that isn't a Jeremy Clarkson fan, wants him to have all of that after watching this show.

I didn't want to like this show, I wanted to hate it. But I ended up binge-watching it. And I made my wife and kids watch it too!

Pan (dem) icking

[MrFilmAndTelevisionShow · 9/10 · 11 August 2021]

This episode could be alternatively named Sheeping II, or Lambing, but Pan (dem) icking I feel is a great name. This was one of the best episodes so far. The lambs were adorable, tragic though their lives are, Jeremy remains as always respectful, and stoic when some poor lambs do not make it.

The episode ends with cuts between lots of different farm scenes, his girlfriend swimming in his pond, him exploring a WWII bomb shelter on his property it's all very well done.

Bit boring, but good at what it does

[yavermbizi · 6/10 · 1 August 2021]

On one hand this episode has some rather fascinating things about it. I was really surprised, for instance, by how seriously the Britons took the pandemic (perhaps Jeremy's felt the need to affirm in his documentary that he'd locked-down properly, so that he wouldn't run afoul of the law - however I'm inclined to take the depiction at its face value, especially considering what the archive footage demonstrates the government having said to the public: "It doesn't matter who you are, [...] how old you are" - surely even with the limited data available then it would count as some pretty bold faced lying?..). The various tricks etc to do with sheep births and farming are also quite neat - however, truth be told about the former, there are a bit too many of these very naturalistic depictions scattered throughout. Otherwise, the cinematography is absolutely brilliant, as usual.

When it comes to things I've disliked (other than governmental lying) we have to count some stranger/less interesting scenes (with how much work there seems to exist on the farm, some of the nonsense they spend time doing is a bit grating), and, among other things, my usual hang-ups about unsophisticated language and imperial units of measurement.