Clarkson's Farm - Amazon Prime series about the most inept farmer... in the world

[Pee Cola]

Have any other Farmers seen this yet? It's almost as year late, but Clarkson's Farm has finally dropped on Amazon Prime and all good BT trackers.

I've only watched the first episode so far, but I'm really impressed. idk if it's the fact that Jezza has shown humility for the first time in two decades, or if it's the chemistry between him and most of the others on this show, but IMHO this is the best thing he's made in years.

Unlike Top Gear and The Grand Tour where the dumb shit he does is obviously scripted, the dumb shit he does in the first episode comes across as Clarkson not knowing any better.

Spoiler: Said dumb shit

For starters, Clarkson buys a tractor that's way too big. As an added bonus, he imported it from Germany. This posed a few problems and a couple of facepalms.

He also ignored the advice of not one but two experienced tractor operators, fucking up the seeding process at least twice.

The best bit of this whole show is a young farmer named Kaleb. Imagine a stereotypical British farmer (complete with the 'oo-arr' accent) that looks like Ed Sheeran if he ate one too many pies. As an added bonus, Kaleb is 21 and talks to Clarkson as though he's just some pleb rather than a world famous celebrity. The crazy part is that Kaleb and Jezza actually have some solid rapport going on. Maybe not at the same level as the rapport with May and Hammond, but I'm only one episode in so it'll probably develop more over the rest of the series.

So yeah... if you're a Clarkson fan, you'll enjoy this. If you hate Clarkson's guts, you'll enjoy this. Either way, it impressed me enough to risk a barrage of puzzle pieces to sperg about here.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

It's not bad. Only a couple of episodes in but there's a decent bit of humour and some actual partially informative stuff in there.

I am waiting for people to complain about all the mentions of rape though.

Apparently it was going to be called "Bought The Farm" at one point.

https://www.fwi.co.uk/farm-life/7-epic-fails-on-jeremy-clarksons-farm-so-far (I'm not bothering putting in the various images in the article,)

Hands up if you’ve ever heard somebody declare that they’d love to be a farmer like you – it must be such a joy to work out in the countryside all day.

Well, TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson is gradually learning that life on the farm isn’t all green grass and shepherd’s delight.

These days he’s farming about 400ha of land in the Cotswolds, growing wheat, barley and oilseed rape and also running a flock of sheep.

See also: Jeremy Clarkson on his own farm, red tape, sheep and sheds

His trials and tribulations are being documented for an eight-part series called I Bought The Farm, which follows the Grand Tour presenter as he attempts to run his own working farm in Oxfordshire.

The show is in production and is expected to be released on Amazon Prime next year. It promises to be a big hit with farming audiences.

Ahead of its release, Jeremy has been serving up sporadic snapshots of what’s happening on Diddly Squat Farm – and most of it isn’t what we’d call ideal.


Here are seven things that haven’t gone according to plan for Farmer Clarkson so far. To quote the man himself: “How hard can it be?”

1. Feeling deflated​

Ever get the feeling that the farming gods are against you? This is a sure sign.

2. Lambo-gged down​

Ahh, the Lamborghini R8 270 DCR (we think). It would seem that Lambo tractors aren’t brilliant off-road.

Mind you, it would help if you had some tread left on those tyres, Jeremy.

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3. Unintentional mob grazing​

It’s widely accepted that sheep are the second-best escape artists after pigs. We hope Farmer Clarkson opted for a barley variety with good standing ability.

4. Nurturing nature
Jeremy’s daughter found this poorly young tawny owl in the woods. Having named it Boris, he pledged to nurse the sickly owlet back to health.

It died soon after.

5. Crop failure​

Oh dear. Have you tried upping the seed rate a tad?

6. Tillage troubles​

How on earth this happened we do not know.

7. More crop failure​

That maize looks about as good as the American accent sounds.


Niggles aside, it’s clear that Clarkson is loving his farming lifestyle and genuinely seems to care about quality food production and environmental management, which we think is fantastic.

Just give us a shout if you need any agricultural advice in the future, Jeremy.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

I just finished the series and it's overall really good. It's great to see Jezza back on screen and see what he has been up to since the last Grand Tour episode. Him becoming a farmer probably an indication of his retirement path, which is pretty damn cool.

There are a lot of classic Jezza moments and he still is himself. I chuckled at his witty prods on the diversity quotas and PC culture sprinkled about in some episodes. The chemistry between Kaleb and Jezza felt natural just like his days with Hammond and May. One of the things that cracked me up was Jezza's description of Twitter in episode 3. He nailed it with the accuracy.

 

[Miller]

I haven't watched it yet but you guys should also check James May's cooking show on Amazon Prime, it's really good and way better than his trip to Japan.