I really am enjoying this show and while I am not sure if it is meant to continue I hope it gets another season. I love history especially if there is a military aspect to it. This show is one of the more realistic dramas of any kind that I have seen with a military backdrop. We have all seen shows where something happens that is such a huge gaffe or unrealistic thing or often an over the top portrayal of a stereotypical military member that you realize it is a show and it ruins the moment. I am about 20 minutes from the end and so far I haven't seen anything that makes me think OK that is garbage can't happen, wouldn't happen or that person wouldn't really be like that. Unfortunately on many occasions shows that are pretty accurate can also be a bit boring. This one isn'tAnother reviewer used the word sympathetic and I think for me that is right on the money. Even some of the less likable characters are at least a bit sympathetic. You may not like the person but you get where they are coming from. Anyhow, great cast, great topic, great story line and thoroughly enjoyable and great to watch. I only wish US made shows would tackle things like this instead of oversexed lawyers or horrible housewives of some godawful place. I feel like these kinds of shows really help us understand at least a bit the life and times of those before us. A small example of that is most of history's shows put Germans of WW1 and WW2 in Grey uniforms. This is the first show in my memory that correctly shows the color of a German field uniform. Small think but it shows they did their homework. Whoever produced, directed, and played in this show I hope it continues but even if it doesn't I hope you know you did an amazing job and I was totally engrossed in the movie and I thank you. If a grouchy Marine can enjoy a show with a bit of smooching and a couple character arcs that make you sad and still enjoy it, I think it should certainly be a great show for some of you more cultured folks. Give it a shot I am absolutely certain that if this topic intrigues you, you will enjoy Crimson Field.

I'm watching this show on PBS TV in Canada. I've just finished watching ep. 4. Can't say enough how much I enjoy it. On PBS just now they are showing the third series of Last Tango in Halifax followed by Poldark and then Crimson Field on Sunday nights. SUBLIME!!!!!!!!!! The only problem I have with it, is the nurses all look much too clean. But I imagine if Florence Nightingale could see this, she'd be happy! I don't know how "real" it all is (the hospital setting) but it works for me.Loved the beautiful teapots and cups in the hotel where Joan meets up with her husband to sign divorce papers. Love the beach scenes. Truly a fantastic show.Love the story lines, the characters, everything. Sad that there's only 6 eps in total and I read one review on here saying it is not to be renewed for a second series which just breaks my heart.

Well - meaning and worthy might be two terms to describe "The Crimson Field",which has gradually improved as the series has progressed. Episode 5 on Sunday night has been the best so far,less soapy in feel and giving the excellent Miss S.Jones a chance to stretch her acting chops which had previously been confined to a lot of desperate grinning and kissing her German fiancé's engagement ring which she keeps on a chain round her neck.Oh,and riding her motor - bike with a most un - nurse - like disregard for the patients stumbling round the Field Hospital. However,Miss H.Norris is the undoubted star of the show as Matron Carter,a woman with a lot of secrets. The cast of Other Ranks is as usual filled with chirpy cockneys,canny Geordies,dour Northerners etc that could have been drawn from any war film from the last 100 years. The junior officers are no more interesting,and only Mr K.Doyle as the Lt.Colonel I/c makes any impact. But mainly this is a study of women at war at a time when smoking a cigarette was considered by many a step too far for "The Ladies - bless 'em". Miss Jones is the only working - class representative amongst them,the rest being comfortably middle - class and above. The junior nurses are well - meaning but totally inexperienced,as reflects the actuality of the time. Necessarily the true bloody picture of the horrific experience it must have been for them all has been watered down,but "The Crimson Field" succeeds in its remit to present such of the appalling reality of life for both the soldiers and the medical staff dedicated to looking after them in 1915. Some of it struggles to escape from the tried and true formula seen on our screens since "Emergency - Ward 10" nearly fifty years ago and currently perpetuated by such as "Casualty"(suffered brainstem death about 15 years ago but kept going by audience - figure incubation). But on balance it should inform a wider audience that The Hippocratic Oath does not include a clause that demands that every doctor should have sex at least once every 60 minute episode and that nurses' uniforms are more than an aid to jaded lovers.

BBC One needs to be much more attentive to highlighting the work that is being accomplished in this show, to draw in a much wider audience. I have thoroughly enjoyed watching The Crimson Field. It has been a delight to be introduced to so many actors and actresses who are so very talented. To be able to portray each story line, to actually get the underlying feelings and angst across in each episode in such a short time is difficult under the best of conditions. Some of the best stories from history are those of people who were not in the lime light, as that is how you get the best "feel" for how "real" people dealt with "real" life without boring the viewer to tears. The story line is quite believable, and the interaction between and amongst the principle characters is quite spot on. Modern viewers who are easily disappointed by "not enough action" or "not enough gore" or something equally compelling need to remember that, during this period, things were much simpler and people were still functioning around stereotypes and clichés. News from the rest of the world was *not* instantaneous as it is now, therefore watching a period piece with hindsight is really quite unfair to all involved in the production. To be able to portray so much within a short period of time requires all involved to be succinct and on-point ... which this series is. Now it needs to be available in the US *and* we need to have at least another 3 seasons to be able to properly follow these story lines to their conclusions.