Tag: All Creatures Great and Small
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‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Embraced Current Events While Making the Season 3 Finale
[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for “All Creatures Great and Small” Season 3 finale, including the ending.]“All Creatures Great and Small” continues to arrive at a point in world history where every new season has been able to draft off of something greater. The search for something warm and inviting in the latter part…
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‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Gave Mrs. Hall the Standout Episode She Deserves
[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for “All Creatures Great and Small” Season 3, Episode 5, “Edward.”]Over nearly three seasons, Mrs. Hall as been the emotional foundation of “All Creatures Great and Small.” Anna Madeley has played her as a shoulder to cry on, a wind at the sails of her trusted friends, and a…
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‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Balances Weddings and War in a Sweet Season 3
When last we left Darrowby, there was cause for celebration. With longtime crushes James (Nicholas Ralph) and Helen (Rachel Shenton) newly engaged and a deepening sense of trust between brothers Siegfried (Samuel West) and Tristan (Callum Woodhouse), it seemed like “All Creatures Great and Small” was settling into a new chapter of evolving happiness for…
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‘All Creatures Great and Small’: Lockdown Writing and Great Dog Performance Create Perfect S2 Ending
On the list of things you theoretically shouldn’t do in a Christmas special, “a last-minute wedding cancellation” and “coming very close to killing off a beloved pet” are pretty high.Yet, “All Creatures Great and Small” has done each in consecutive years and still delivered cozy, season-capping holiday episodes. It’s one of the show’s enduring charms…
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Samuel West: ‘On screen I mostly play evil members of the establishment or Victorian perverts’
The actor on his pandemic poetry jukebox, life lessons of the Moomins, the pros and cons of Twitter, and how to reboot regional theatreSamuel West, 54, one of the best verse speakers of his generation, has played Hamlet, Anthony Blunt (twice) and recently become Siegfried Farnon in Channel 5’s All Creatures Great and Small; he…
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‘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…
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‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Review: Fresh Spin on a Veterinary Classic Is Full of Heart
Onscreen, kindness and inevitability go hand in hand. Build a show or a movie around a group of characters driven by goodness or decency and it tends to result in whatever story that validates our brave heroic protagonist and provides comfort to the most amount of viewers. In turn, that clear, expected trajectory usually ends…