‘All Creatures Great and Small’: TV’s Sweetest Show Delivers an Emotionally Honest Ending

[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for “All Creatures Great and Small” Season 1, including the ending of the finale.]There are many ways that “All Creatures Great and Small” feels like a soothing force in the current TV world, but one might not be fully apparent until the ending moments of the Christmas special that closes out the show’s first season on PBS.

The seventh chapter of this adaptation update — one that also includes some surprise sleigh bells in the breezy opening theme music and important plot points driven by the presence of mistletoe — concludes without the season ever seeing a true antagonist.As series creator and writer Ben Vanstone explained, that was always part of the plan.“I made a rule quite early on in the process that I don’t think there are any villains in this piece,” Vanstone said.

“You have to find that drama in a different place.

And I think that having that restriction,

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