micivetta This series is so engaging from the start. Its about human issues like learning to be: steadfast, honest, generous and caring to those you live near. Th eBritish wit and propriety is nothing short of engaging and its so nice to have a show that share the trials and tribulations of people without blood, violence and vulgarity. Well done!

William Capell Although I thoroughly enjoyed watching this series, there are a few, shall we say technical details that bothered me throughout all 4 seasons. In the first episode we find that Lark Rise and Candleford are separated by something over 8 miles of road. A bit less if you cut through the fields however the walking time in either case would be about 3 hours each way. Through all of the episodes we see people moving between the communities as if they were only minutes apart. How did they move about so quickly? My other observation is that although Lark Rise is obviously a farming community, we never see any farm animals. Once there was a chicken on Twister's roof, Sydney's goose and of course there was Queenie's Berkshire pig in season-4, but no real farm animals. They always had lots of stews and sausages to eat though. These technical oversights always bother me, it is my one weakness...

Keithola1 I'm a 40 year old straight single guy. I would have never even considered watching something like this if someone described it to me or I saw a commercial for it. BUT, the only channel we got clearly at my family's lake house was PBS until the digital transition. After fishing and doing yard work one day, I was drinking a beer and was too tired to get up to change the channel when this came on. I was a little angry at first, but after about 15 minutes I realized that I really wanted to know what happened next to this lady. I ended up watching the whole thing and realized at the end that I had laughed a few times and even welled up with tears once. And I don't think it was from the beer! I watched two more full episodes when I went back to the lake (kind of looked forward to it). I think I need to let me ego heal for a little while before I watch any more, but just had to say that this show has incredible acting, writing, scenery, authenticity to the place and period, and much more. If you grew up watching Little House on the Prairie, you'd really like this (as another reviewer mentioned). Same overall feel, but much more complex stories and more mature themes. I usually don't quite have that willing suspension of disbelief required for something like this, but it is so well done I feel like I'm sitting in the room with them in 19th century England... as if any moment someone will turn toward me and ask if I'd like a spot of tea! Give it 15 minutes and you'll probably be hooked too. Okay, I better go hammer a few nails or work on my car for a while!

thos40 I liked Lark Rise so much in its first season that I sought out and read the book. The power of television! Contrary to what I had expected, the book is not about jolly folk from the hamlet of Lark Rise hob-nobbing more or less comfortably with the townsfolk of Candleford, but one of the richest social histories of England ever written, spiced with very brief stories. I did not mind at all that incidents that took a few lines in the book were blown up into a whole episode -- the writers produced imaginative scripts that kept within the spirit of the book. Nor did I mind at all the introduction of new characters like Sir Timothy. However, the Christmas special betrayed not only the book but even the first season of the TV adaptation, in being unrelentingly soppy, introducing a dopey ghost story, and destroying the sense of place that had been built up in the series. People defied the distance carefully measured out in an episode in the series (and the book) between hamlet and township, and just zipped between them with the ease exhibited by the ghost. Tweeness took over completely. We have not seen series 2 in Australia yet (starts next week), but I do hope that the terribly disappointing Christmas special was an aberration, and that Lark Rise recovers its form.