Our Zoo

She's also in the film Pride which there's another thread about.

I'm hoping to see that later this week. She lends herself to period drama of that kind, doesn't she. Had she been a lot older she would have made a good James Herriotts wife in All Creatures Great and Small [wasn't that a brilliant series in its day!].

Well, I started off trying to like it but the storyline just got stupider and stupider. I may be wrong about this as well [where's david Attenborough when you need him?] but surely a mother bear wouldn't allow humans to nurse her cubs soon after giving birth? Although I'd pretty much given up on the whole thing before that happened anyway. I'm not sure that the scriptwriter seems to know what age audience he/she is aiming at. However, I may do a bit of googling as I might find that the events in the series did actually happen.

I still like it! I like the characters. The plot may be a bit far-fetched in places. (I do hope they get the other bear back!) I suppose it's a bit like a fairytale. Also - there's kind of the sense of them all being quite emotionally raw after the war and an awareness of the economic hardships of the thirties - they are trying not to be too sentimental but still feeling for the animals. Even Anne Reid's character has come round (a bit).

I'm enjoying it. I expect some of it is made up for dramatic effect but I think the acting is very good.

I said before I like it, I still do, of course some of it is not true, it is after all a STORY! We must all read fiction at some time. At least there is no brutality in it, and no bad language which is a bonus for me.

I quite like it as there is not much else on but it does make me nod off.