I love this series for its honesty, beauty, and defiance of sentimentality. Life in the wee Highlands village of Tannochbrae presents beautiful places and people, but never turns away from the often ugly realities of life for its occupants and the never ending moral dilemmas they face. Made in the 1990s, it constitutes a remarkable watershed in storytelling, balanced and wise, and fair, respectful, and appreciative to women, fifty years ahead of American television, as if that corrupt and pretty, empty stream of clumsy issue-based polemics will ever catch up.
