7/10 GOOD
I can totally understand other people not getting this show and scoring it low, it’s a very unique show, it’s historical but with a hint of modern vernacular….
The dialogue is long and slow at times with loads of pauses and made up on the hoof, giving it a realistic honest at times.
The dialogue also very modern but with just the smallest amount of historical wording used, which is fine and for me made it more realistic and relevant, you could easy lift these characters and storyline and place them all in a housing estate backdrop and it would easily work, with little to no changes…..
The costumes and settings Are as accurate as they can be just without the stuffy perceived behaviour of the time.
My only complaint is the three episodes was to short, should have been 4 at minimum, 6 at max.
We could have had one episode of he’s story before returning home, they could easily have stretched the story we got over an extra episode as well and then given us one more showing us the good results from their actions….

P.S I do have one other gripe, the BBC’s insistence on having their woke pc quotas.
1) a coloured family that just wouldn’t have been so prominent at that time or as accepted as they were in this show.
2)people with learning difficulties again given such prominence, once again they would have probably been hidden away or sent to work houses and that’s if they would have been allowed to have a life.