Clarkson’s Farm (Amazon Prime Video)
A useful tip if you ever pass Downing Street: don’t hit the knocker. Jeremy Clarkson’s main pawns did so and were severely reprimanded.
Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland, the duo who actually run Clarkson’s Farm, were summoned to meet the Prime Minister in the second half of the latest third series following life at Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm.
“Just a clue,” snapped the footman who ushered them inside. “If you play that loud again, I’ll kick you out.”
“Sorry, we are farmers,” the couple apologized. ‘I don’t care, I’m not!’ came the answer.
Kaleb has been the saving grace of this show from the beginning. His honesty and amiable lack of sophistication are the antidote to Jezza’s very polite cynicism. How long he can maintain this innocent redneck’s personality before he becomes a caricature is another question.
Jeremy Clarkson’s TV show following life on his Didly Squat Farm has entered its third season.
Clarkson and others load pigs and piglets onto a truck in one episode, bundled up in woolly hats, vests and wellies.
The former Top Gear presenter proves he’s a hands-on owner as he herds one of his pigs across a paddock.
As he walked through Westminster, he greeted people with a cheerful “Good morning!” – fully aware that no one in the hostile city would recognize him.
His idea of sightseeing was to point out places where the flow of traffic had baffled him: “I didn’t turn on my turn signal at this junction,” he said in Trafalgar Square, ignoring architectural details such as the National Gallery.
And when she finally met the Prime Minister, the first thing she thought was: “You have beautiful hair.”
—Have you heard the opposite? asked Dishy Rishi.
This adventure is a lively moment in the midst of long, overflowing days, in a series that should have been condensed into a couple of hours.
Good jokes and interesting digressions become boring when repeated… and there is a lot of repetition.
It’s fun to see Clarkson’s faux surprise that the bags of oyster mushrooms he’s ripening in an old bomb shelter have produced cartloads of mushrooms. It’s less funny when she collapses in shock every time she goes down there.
Kaleb Cooper (pictured) and Charlie Ireland, the duo who actually run Clarkson’s Farm, were summoned to meet the Prime Minister in the second half of the final third series (pictured).
Kaleb Cooper and TV host Clarkson: Cooper and Charlie Ireland are the real brains behind Clarkson’s operation and manage the day-to-day operations.
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And the breakdown of farm costs on a whiteboard in the final episode is so boring that I was starting to expect him to announce he was bankrupt just to end the litany.
Clarkson insists it has never been harder to make a living from farming, but I heard the same complaints from Chipping Norton farmers when I was chief reporter at the Cotswold Journal decades ago. . . When Jeremy had a curling mop.
The sun shines, it rains, the crops grow, the farmers complain: it is the circle of rural life.
Despite the green preaching about chemicals and replenishing the soil in previous episodes, Clarkson is as interested as ever in touching up the fluffy tails of vegans.
In one segment he goes out to hunt roe deer, after an endless stretch at the shooting range where we are treated to a demonstration of his aim.
With a deer in his sights, he hesitates at first, but soon serves venison burgers to visitors. “You’re eating Bambi,” she laughs.
All of this contrasts strangely with the final collage of clips, set to Cat Stevens’ plaintive hippie anthem Where Do the Children Play? And now what, sing with Greta?