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4.0 out of 5 stars
Brit wartime soap part 3,
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This review is from: Land Girls Series 3 (DVD)
Fans of the first two seasons of Land Girls will find this third season worth taking in. Watching it without having seen the first two will not be nearly as pleasurable as earlier story lines are picked up without much or any enlightenment to benefit new viewers.The Land Girls crew has shrunk with Annie and Bea having left, replaced by only one newcomer, a slim naive redhead Iris. Joyce and Connie return in major roles. Major continuations from season two are Esther's pregnancy from her coerced despicable liaison with Vernon; Connie's continuing up-and-down relationship with Minister Henry; and Joyce's ignorance and expectations about her husband's survival from combat in France. Farmer Finch, along with his son Martin, is up to his usual opportunistic trickeries but he also shows heart for Esther's predicament. As well as advancing these plot lines, new highly dramatic ones are introduced. The end of the last episode leaves the door open for a fourth season, involving Lady Hoxley and Dr Channing's relationship and her continuing suspicion about him possible spying for the Germans. This season's episodes have less to do with farm work and war threats than the previous seasons. So Land Girls has become less a period war drama than a modern soap production with loose WWII relevance. But, ironically, it does leave more room for excellent character development, including heightened conflict and animosity (leading to murder), criminality, subversion and deceptions. It has more sustained interpersonal suspense from episode to episode than previous seasons. Seline Hizli, who plays coquettish Connie, and David Schofield, playing the heartless and brutal Vernon, are arguably the most memorable actors. Well done.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining But Not Historically accurate,
By Pamela Mckinnon "Traveling Pam" (Vancouver Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: Land Girls Series 3 (DVD)
This was, like the other two series, entertaining but hardly accurate for the times. One prime error is you very often see the Land Girls in civilian dress. This hardly ever happened. They were there to work and work they did. There are other errors as well. However, it is very entertaining and more long a soap opera type of entertainment. I enjoyed it but there isn't much depth to it. The end of this series seems to end more like a typical American show with shootouts, etc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Voluptuous farm females return amid murder, plowing, and WW2 espionage,
By Harold Wolf "Doc" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Land Girls Series 3 (DVD)
Land Girls staff changes, few, but the action picks up as do the affairs. The comic element remains led by Farmer Finch (Mark Benton). He's not received an award yet, like returnees Becci Gemmell (Joyce) and Sophie Ward (Lady Ellen). There is hardly a character in series 3 who is not involved in a romantic ripple at some point, but it's wartime and something things end harshly. Over a dozen cast back picking up British wartime 40s where it left off, doing their bit for the war out of...well, almost out of harms way.An excellent mix plots in the storyline keeps the viewer interest. 5 episodes (originally shown during a single week) connect in a continuous war adventure that would be considered an epic if on a longer and wider land scale. It's a small community of farms but the outside horrors of war begin to reach the furors around Hoxley Manor. Old complaints of changes to period clothing colors seem to fade as the depth of the characters swell like cabbage fields. NO SUBTITLES again. BBC cares little about hearing & dialect impaired but continues doing well with this war drama series, released 2 months after airing on DVD. 1 HOME TO ROOST---Hoxley gets converted to a hospital after the local is bombed. Dr. Channing (Dominic Mafham) at the head, oops a former Lady Ellen lover. Frank (Paul Ritter-`Vera') to the Story-Tucker feud which newest land girl Iris (Lou Broadbent) gets caught up in. Finch wrecks Mrs. Gulliver's (Carolyn Pickles) victory garden and is blackmailed to replant. Table turns when treasure found. Connie's (Seline Hizli) about to mate the Vicar till bad-past Danny (Joe Armstrong) appears. Joyce's John (Nicholas Shaw) hospitalized at Hoxley with amnesia. Thus a stage of plots is set for the remaining series. 2 THE WAR IN THE FIELDS---It had to happen, a competition between farmer vs Land Girls. Iris seems to get caught in the thick of all things controversial, including plowing and romance. Danny meets the Vicar and 3's a crowd. Esther (Susan Cookson) vomits of a morning, consequential horror. 3 THE ENEMY WITHIN---John's memory buds via pressures. Is the doctor collaborating? Who's to be a father? Abortion? Who will pay for the murder of a lamb? 4 FAREWELL MY LOVELY---Connie's forced back to crime as another at Hoxley finds evidence of same for a recently bedded liaison. John's memory and secret returns badly. A murder, a suspect, a lover's tiff? Fuel, a boy, and a bag of coins are central in a bungled robbery. There's lots of loose ends left to wrap up in the last episode. 5 LAST DAYS OF SUMMER---John's memory begins to return with confused reconciliation with Joyce. Thugs arrive in the area bent on revenge. Iris and Vernon have a confrontation with results promising season 4. More than one pair of lovers reunite as wedding bells chime, also with whispers of new episodes. Guess who gets holding the bag? No bonus, not even the annoying trailer ads. |
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