I know, some of you are probably really boggled at that title. Some of you might even be wondering “What is Clarkson’s Farm?” and imagining some sort of Fantasy or Sci-Fi show revolving around a farm on an alien planet or something like that.

Others of you might be wondering why after my hammering of the Halo show (well-deserved, I might add), the next show I’m talking about isn’t Fallout (which was excellent by the way, if deserving of that rating) but rather … I mean, Clarkson’s Farm?

Let’s back up a bit then. What is Clarkson’s Farm?

Well, the Clarkson referred to in the title is Jeremy Clarkson, a prominent TV personality from the UK most famously known for being one member of the trio that made up Top Gear. Yes, that Top Gear. The show that routinely saw worldwide viewing numbers that could compete with the Superbowl. Yep, a show about “cars” (that routinely was far more than that) which ran for 13 or so seasons and became one of the world’s most-watched television shows, with spin-offs in almost every other country.

Seriously, if you haven’t seen that old show, it’s a hoot, and once you sit down to watch it you’ll see why hundreds of millions tuned into each new episode each week. It was an absolute blast, but like all good things it did have to end. And I’m not here to tell you to go watch that show, but to tell you why you should instead watch the show one of the leading trio went on to make afterwards.

See, all three of the leads for Top Gear were getting pretty far along in years, so when the time came to separate from Top Gear, even though they all went right back to something similar with The Grand Tour, each also started looking at other things to do.

For Jeremy Clarkson, that was having the idea of buying a thousand-acre farm in the Cotswalds, and filming himself (and everyone else who is roped in) trying to run it.

Now, if you’re American, you’re probably thinking “Oh, reality TV” right about now. With all its artificial drama and tweaks to make for “good television.”

But that’s not what Clarkson’s Farm is at all.

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