Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I am quite late to getting around to this show. I never heard of it till after I became a fanatic of Downton Abbey which then caused me to love Brendan Coyle. (Mr. Bates is my favorite!) I started watching Lark Rise to Candleford simply because he was in it, not even knowing what to expect and I am so glad I did! I adored every minute of it!I will admit though that I just finished the series a few moments ago and I am a little disappointed in some of the loose ends I would've liked to see tied up.SPOILER ALERT: I would've really liked to see Robert Timmins come home to his family. I'm sure there were reasons why he wasn't on series 4 but seeing as I am biased since he's the reason I started the show, I wish I could've at least seen him arrive back home to his family. I also wish we could've known a little more about where Laura's life was headed. Obviously she was to become a writer and I guess it's safe to assume she ended up with Daniel but we didn't get the neat and tidy bow wrapping it all up like with Alf and Minnie. (That part however made me very happy) END OF SPOILERWith all that said, I am so happy to see how most loose ends were tied and very pleasantly. All in all it was an amazing show and will forever be on my list of favorites. I am just so sad it was only a 4 series. I also plan on reading the books. :)

Although I thoroughly enjoyed watching this series, there are a few, shall we say technical details that bothered me throughout all 4 seasons. In the first episode we find that Lark Rise and Candleford are separated by something over 8 miles of road. A bit less if you cut through the fields however the walking time in either case would be about 3 hours each way. Through all of the episodes we see people moving between the communities as if they were only minutes apart. How did they move about so quickly? My other observation is that although Lark Rise is obviously a farming community, we never see any farm animals. Once there was a chicken on Twister's roof, Sydney's goose and of course there was Queenie's Berkshire pig in season-4, but no real farm animals. They always had lots of stews and sausages to eat though. These technical oversights always bother me, it is my one weakness...

Oh, the humanity!! JUST imagine!!! A thoroughly entertaining & popular series based loosely on a book. Boo Hoo! SO WHAT! --you prissy twits. Get over it. Spoiler. If Lark Rise has a fault it is that many of it's most intriguing and enduring characters were tossed after only 10 episodes taking their lovely story lines with them--Lord Timothy & Lady Adaliade, Liz Smith, & Dawn French's hilarious Caroline, etc. WHY? By the way, nay sayers. EVEN in "real life" 19th century rural England there were reasonably happy marriages, close friendships, eccentrics, picturesque villages, and amusing stories to tell. ALL of existence wasn't unremitting tragedy, disease, and inequality. Get real. Some people were actually contented & happy some or most of the time. Just like "real life" people today in rural England.

I liked Lark Rise so much in its first season that I sought out and read the book. The power of television! Contrary to what I had expected, the book is not about jolly folk from the hamlet of Lark Rise hob-nobbing more or less comfortably with the townsfolk of Candleford, but one of the richest social histories of England ever written, spiced with very brief stories. I did not mind at all that incidents that took a few lines in the book were blown up into a whole episode -- the writers produced imaginative scripts that kept within the spirit of the book. Nor did I mind at all the introduction of new characters like Sir Timothy. However, the Christmas special betrayed not only the book but even the first season of the TV adaptation, in being unrelentingly soppy, introducing a dopey ghost story, and destroying the sense of place that had been built up in the series. People defied the distance carefully measured out in an episode in the series (and the book) between hamlet and township, and just zipped between them with the ease exhibited by the ghost. Tweeness took over completely. We have not seen series 2 in Australia yet (starts next week), but I do hope that the terribly disappointing Christmas special was an aberration, and that Lark Rise recovers its form.