'All Creatures Great & Small's First Images Introduce New Faces for Season 6
It's still the doldrums of August across the Northern Hemisphere, but the heat broke this week, and the time of year known colloquially in the American South as "False Fall" has arrived. (Don't worry, U.K. friends, our A/C units aren't done quite yet; September will be here soon to remind us all that climate change is inevitable now.) However, the first taste of fall has also brought along one of the annual traditions of autumn and winter: All Creatures Great & Small. The series, which traditionally airs and streams in the U.K. as soon as the weather turns, and in the U.S. just after New Year's, serves as TV's reminder that colder weather is approaching.
After two seasons of World War II as background noise, All Creatures Season 6 will do a small time jump forward and skip to the end. The new season will open in 1945, as the war draws to a close and the British economy severely tanks in that way only former empires can. In Yorkshire, it'll be a bit of getting back to business as usual, as the few survivors straggle on home to deal with mental health issues that have yet to be officially named.
However, with the collapse of the British economic situation, everything is up in the air. Technological change is just around the corner, albeit slightly slower to take hold in England, especially the northern regions. But that's the reality of linear time. It never stops bringing changes.
