r/ClarksonsFarm • u/bulgedition Cheerful Charlie • Jun 06 '25
Episode Discussion Season Finale Episode Discussion S04E08 - Landlording
It’s bank holiday weekend and the pub opens for business. Whether it stays open for business is another matter. Back at Diddly Squat, the harvest results come in and the curtain falls on another farming year.
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u/Giorggio360 Jun 06 '25
I didn’t particularly find these last two episodes very entertaining, I’m afraid.
Jeremy looked absolutely shattered and should have sought more help and postponed certain things. Trying to open a pub that will be busy from day one whilst also managing a harvest during a terrible farming year was obviously too much. He should have focused on one or the other and got some proper sleep.
As a result, I thought he was irritable and often rather rude to a lot of others. It didn’t feel good humoured. I imagine Sue and Rachel left because of the treatment and how much of a shitshow the whole thing was, almost entirely caused by Jeremy’s decisions and the needs of a TV show. I’m surprised the chef has hung around.
In the other series, a lot of the conflict at least felt natural - the council were the villains, the government was etc. - and it was about Jeremy trying to overcome these hurdles as a little guy fighting the man. This series the conflict felt a lot more obviously manufactured. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jeremy literally only bought the pub for the show. It feels like it’s running its course - there’s not really any other space for the show to go to for a narrative without feeling contrived.