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- 2021
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- 2021
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Summary Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson gets involved with his Oxfordshire farm with help from tractor driver Kaleb, stone wall worker Gerald, advisor ‘Cheerful’ Charlie, and Jeremy's girlfriend Lisa.
- 2021
- TV-PG
- Prime Video
- 2021
- TV-PG
- Prime Video
Clarkson's Farm
Season 1 Premiere: Jun 10, 2021
68
8.6
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Summary Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson gets involved with his Oxfordshire farm with help from tractor driver Kaleb, stone wall worker Gerald, advisor ‘Cheerful’ Charlie, and Jeremy's girlfriend Lisa.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
68
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
68
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The series is unscripted but there are moments here when you suspect that subjects are being brought up, or lines being fed, at the producers’ request, which occasionally gives the Clarkson and Kaleb scenes a stagey feel. ... But it remains thoroughly enjoyable viewing.
Clarkson’s Farm is, at its heart, a bromance. Richard Hammond and James May have been swapped out for the brass-necked Kaleb and the level-headed Charlie, but the dynamic remains a satisfactory foil for Clarkson’s excesses. The final product is not dissimilar to something the Diddly Squat Farm Shop might sell: over-packaged and slightly artificial, but undeniably delicious.
While some of the encounters here feel a bit staged — Clarkson arguing with his girlfriend Lisa over the state of the farm-shop car park, for instance — it may gratify those who think Clarkson a bully to hear the tongue-lashing administered by Kaleb. Or the caustic if largely unintelligible asides from old farmhand Gerald Cooper, with his hedgerow-thick rural accent.
Clarkson’s Farm doesn’t feel fake. In fact, when you see Clarkson despairing at his crop failures, or yelping with delight when he helps to deliver a lamb, it feels genuine.
There is obviously a limit to how relatable a multimillionaire can be – especially when he has owned a farm for more than a decade and never bothered to find out how it actually works. Combined with Clarkson’s trademark blustering arrogance, this show could be insufferable. And yet, it is somehow engaging, funny, insightful and surprisingly enjoyable.
We’re not sure what is interesting to see on Clarkson’s Farm. It’s basically episode after episode of Clarkson stumbling around as a gentleman farmer, making bad business choices, and dealing with the quirky characters that he’s hired to help him on the farm. ...It feels like a show for Clarkson completists.
The series amounts to less and less as time goes on. From the staged conceit to Clarkson’s contempt, the bad faith of every aspect of Jeremy Fills the Airwaves is so nakedly on display that each moment feels as if it is hollowing itself out from the inside.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 24 User Ratings
8.6
88% Positive
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
8% Mixed
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4% Negative
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 24 User Ratings
8.6
88% Positive
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
8% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
4% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
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Production Company:
- Con Dao Productions
- Expectation
Initial Release Date: Jun 10, 2021
Number of seasons: 4 Seasons
Rating: TV-PG
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Awards
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
• 1 Nomination
