From All Creatures to The Repair Shop: why British TV is soothing America s soul
They love our ‘crunchy gravel shows’, the ‘empathy’ of our plots, and anything with The Queen. How did Britain collectively ‘break America’?
28 April 2021 • 5:00am Low-stakes, calming television : American viewers can t get enough of British shows like All Creatures Great and Small
Credit: Matt Squire
When the Channel 5 reboot of All Creatures Great and Small was shown in the US earlier this year, it received almost universal critical acclaim. “In a TV universe where a dark tone and byzantine plotting are so often the default,” wrote Alan Sepinwall in a typical piece in Rolling Stone, “the empathy and simplicity of All Creatures feel genuinely radical.”
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