Fun like dealing with Sir Henry Simmerson.

Simmerson is played expertly by Michael Cochrane. As an aside, Michael Cochrane usually plays posh people of course, but in Wings (the 1977 show about WW1, not the Cheersverse show) he played a REALLY NICE post pilot.

It's the Battle of Talavera! I think Ken knows a lot about this. Certainly more than I do anyway.

You have to love Major Hogan. Hell, you have to love Arthur Wellesley.

Wellesley becomes Wellington in this one.

Wait, is one of those dumb young lieutenants Daniel Craig? Yup!

As always, the chosen men are amazing, plus we get some Dan Hagman singing.

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'Eyes down'.

The fact that the Chosen Men are basically a collection of war movie tropes is fine by me.

'Dan Hagman, poacher'.

This food is a little Papist for my tastes.

If you don't love the Sgt. Harper and Lt Sharpe relationship I don't know what to tell you.

Brian Cox as Major Hogan, man does it get any better?

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We're going to watch all 18 episodes and talk about them, you know, like if they were Mad Men or Rockford or Baa Baa Black Sheep or the Six Million Dollar Man...

Ken did his undergrad thesis on the Peninsular War, so we have that going for us us.

We talked about lots of stuff, including realizing tv is not reality (or even history), and the differences between how armies are organized today vs in the time of the show.

Next time we'll be doing 'Sharpe's Rifles' so, if you have the DVDs or Britbox, watch along!

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