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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 405387" data-attributes="member: 673">I’m seven episodes in and I can see where Acorn Antiques borrowed from it. There’s lots of “You forgot my sweetener” style scene ends and the latest episode that I watched ended with the cliffhanger of someone forgetting to pick up a bottle of tonic from the doctors, reminiscent of “After last Friday’s exciting cliffhanger, let’s see if they’re any further on with mending that umbrella stand”. It’s a charming little show and an easy watch. It does suffer a bit from what a lot of those country house dramas are guilty of, where the lower classes are portrayed as being indebted to their wealthy masters, who are left to sort their lives out for them. There was a two parter (after the initial episodes, I think they’re all presented this way) where the son of one of the estate staff had gotten a local girl pregnant and for some reason, Commander Bourne and the local school headmaster were the ones battling it out over how it would be resolved, with the couple eventually moving into a cottage on the estate.</blockquote>