At least he knows it, though. “Turns out I’m not Jethro Tull,” he laments after a failed experiment in painting a straight guideline with his tractor. “I’m just a hapless f***wit.” This self-deprecation has become Clarkson’s signature attitude since he allowed us to go behind the scenes on his farm in his Prime Video series, making even his most staunch critics warm to him – myself included.
Kaleb and Lisa are nowhere to be seen in the opening episodes of series four (Photo: Amazon)
It’s not long before farm manager Charlie Ireland drafts in a replacement Kaleb, in the form of Harriet Cowan, a young farmer from Derbyshire, whose thick fake eyelashes and curled blonde hair are slightly incongruous with the hard labour she excels at. Clarkson has previously called Clarkson’s Farm a “genuine reality show”, but the arrival of Harriet is the first time that the programme has felt artificial.
While Clarkson gamely giggles along, there’s a spark missing in the presenter this time around. Perhaps it’s the incessant rain that is making farming an impossible task – literally, nothing can be planted – but Clarkson seems fed up with his lot; exhausted, even, with the repetitive slog of farm life. Perhaps that’s why half the series doesn’t focus on Diddly Squat at all, but on his new dream of buying, renovating and running a country pub.
Clarkson’s pub is an attempt to tackle the loneliness epidemic (Photo: Amazon)Along the way, Clarkson grieves the loss of the thousands of pubs that have been forced into closure over the last decade. He makes a tenuous but well-meaning connection between the lack of pubs and the loneliness epidemic, which is hitting farmers particularly hard. Opening a pub is undeniably a noble pursuit – but this is supposed to be Clarkson’s Farm, not Clarkson’s Pub.
‘Clarkson’s Farm’ is streaming on Prime Video. New episodes stream from next Friday
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