What To Watch : The Hardacres on Prime and Britbox

Obsessed. I don’t know how I missed this show, but I recently finished binging seasons 1 AND 2 in two days. 😂

Premise: Period piece alert! It’s set in the 1890s in Yorkshire, England. The Hardacres are a close-knit, working-class family of fish dock and herring-gutting laborers. After patriarch Sam Hardacre suffers a severe hand injury and the family clashes with their boss, they lose their jobs and face deep penury and potential homelessness. Mary Hardacre, Sam’s wife, leads the family to pivot into an entrepreneurial fried herring business. Together, Sam and Mary make some investments that pay off BIG TIME and they move into Hardacre Hall with servants, new clothes, new social rules, new neighbors and so much more.

The family is scrappy, they make decisions based on their guts, they fight, they process trauma, they love each other fiercely. I couldn’t get enough! Each of the three kids, the parents, and the grandmother have their own story lines, and you will be rooting for them all!

You can watch The Hardacres on Amazon Prime and Britbox!

Watch if you like: The Gilded Age or All Creatures Great and Small

Good news for us book lovers - it’s based on a two book series by CL Skelton! The series was published in 1977 (Book 1) and 1985 (Book 2). I can’t wait to read them!

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