Growing up a farmer daughter named Tess.ie it had appeal now, my husband and I are obsessed with this tv show mainly due to real life situations and not made on a sound stage and best of all makes you feel a little lift from everyday cheering on the charactors. Makes you want to find a horse and help out. I have to say episode when "Claire" died was the sadest tv show I think I have ever watched, Now on to season 4.