My Favorite Show for the Whole Family
We’ve watched quite a few tv shows together as a family over the years and hands-down the new PBS All Creatures Great and Small is in our top 3.
I’d heard raves about it and so I convinced my husband to watch the first episode with me. We both loved it and after we finished the first season, we said, “Our kids would LOVE this!”
So we rewatched the first season and then the second and third with them and every one of us, from our then 5-year-old to our 13-year-old have loved it.
It’s smart and funny and heart-warming and absolutely one of the best shows on television right now.
If you are looking for something for the whole family to enjoy, especially in the chilly dark winter months, I can’t recommended All Creatures Great and Small highly enough.
If you’re not familiar with James Herriot, he was a vet in England in the mid 1900s. He wrote a whole slew of (extremely excellent) books about his adventures as a vet (both in the clinic with small animals and out at farms with big animals) – I remember my mom reading one of the books aloud to us when I was young and her laughing so hard she could hardly breathe.
There is an old TV series based on his books, but I’ve never seen it – although my younger siblings watched it after I’d left home – so I have nothing to compare the new one to.
But by any standard, the new All Creatures Great and Small is absolutely phenomenal.
It has been a pure delight to our whole family and we love quoting all the best lines in it to each other for months afterward. Bart and I have discussed on MANY occasions how incredibly good the acting is and how incredible the character development is.
The fourth season will air in the US in January 2024 so now is the perfect time to catch up (each season isn’t very long – usually 6-7 episodes).
You can get a PBS Passport for $5 a month and watch it there or you can add the PBS Masterpiece channel to your Amazon account and try it for free for a week (and then it’s $5.99 a month after that).
All Creatures Great and Small is the perfect winter show and I can’t recommend it highly enough – I hope you’ll love it as much as we have!
I agree with you! It is one of the best I’ve seen of late! Thanks for the heads up about the deal!