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Critic Reviews
Jan 7, 2022
Season 2 Review:
The bottom line is that, once again, All Creatures is a delight. It’s cozy and beautifully made. It’s a throwback that feels familiar, and yet doesn’t always play out exactly as expected. Yet even when it does, it’s charming enough to make each decision work. ... It knows just what it’s about, and we love it for that.
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Jan 8, 2021
Season 1 Review:
All Creatures Great and Small is not a series that requires much from you, but gives plenty in return. It’s not fluff—there are real emotions here, and an underlying sense of changing times as modernity creeps in to the practices of the rural counties. ... It is a wonderful treat and a balm for the soul.
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The TelegraphSep 19, 2024
Season 5 Review:
It is testament to the show’s strength that although the war has changed the group dynamics of the earlier series – and we’re still awaiting the return of Tristan – it still feels agreeably familiar. Even while serving as an airman, James ended up with his arm halfway up a cow.
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The TimesSep 16, 2022
Season 3 Review:
The facial expressions between the brilliant Samuel West as Siegfried Farnon and Callum Woodhouse as Tristan Farnon as the moment approached when the missing ring had to be produced was a small joy. Not the most exciting episode, perhaps, but a welcome comfort cardi.
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Feb 1, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The cozy, well-known contours of this story are a feature, not a bug. Still, the new series is completely charming on its own, entirely apart from whether you grew up with Herriot as a nostalgia figure. ... There’s always a real chance that he’s not going to be able to help an animal, and All Creatures Great and Small would not work without knowing those stakes. At the same time, the foundation of the series is the rock-solid confidence that Herriot and his colleagues are competent and deeply compassionate.
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Jan 20, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The tone is more humorous than not, and even when things are a little rough between the characters, the camera and the soundtrack turn to the landscape for romance. (Even a tractor ride may bring in sweeping strings.) We are practically being instructed to fall in love with these people and this place, and it is an easy instruction to follow.
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Jan 11, 2021
Season 1 Review:
"All Creatures" doesn't just stop at being pleasant in a wholesomely British kind of way. Coursing through the entire seven-episode series is such an amount of heart, the kind that ensures that goodness and decency inevitably win the day, that it will leave you yearning for better times, especially amid the unprecedented stress the last year has brought us.
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Jan 7, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Coming at a time when everything seems stressful and difficult, the new “All Creatures Great and Small” feels as comforting as a cup of tea, as warming as a fleecy blanket on a cold night, and as welcoming as a fire burning indoors while the winter wind blows outside. ... The perfect show for this imperfect moment.
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Jan 6, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Even as it introduces many of the same stories and character dynamics, the PBS Masterpiece “All Creatures Great and Small” finds key ways to distinguish itself from depictions past, especially as it makes the most of a handsome budget and embraces a welcome, earnest warmth in its storytelling.
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The TelegraphNov 16, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Revisiting the world of All Creatures Great and Small felt like meeting old friends. Any viewers missing the classic triumvirate of Robert Hardy, Christopher Timothy and Peter Davison were surely converted by this well-crafted opener, confidently directed by Downton Abbey alumnus Brian Percival.
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TV Guide MagazineJan 4, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The wild beauty of the Yorkshire dales and the timelessness of these stories about animals and their devoted human owners make this a comforting and at times even compelling place to revisit. [4 - 17 Jan 2021, p.7]
The TimesSep 25, 2025
Season 6 Review:
[Siegfried's] erratic irascibility (“maybe I’m a trifle abrupt,” he conceded) actually adds something approaching an edge but the soapy emotional dramas, as old-fashioned as a Werther’s Original, made me pine for a bit more of the show’s gently humorous side, the eccentricity you get with Mrs Pumphrey and her overfed furball Tricki-Woo.
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iSep 19, 2024
Season 5 Review:
Even Mrs Pumphrey seems to have dismounted her high horse, while the perma-irascible Siegfried now coos over baby Jimmy at every available opportunity. This could all have become cloying, but somehow wasn’t. Such universal good-heartedness may be unrealistic, but it’s a welcome relief in these politically and socially fractured times.
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