Interesting premise and quite fun, but there's an awful lot of clichéd set pieces. Requires a significant amount of suspension of disbelief to ignore the fact that a small poor family with not enough money to pay the rent can make enough money from selling fried herring to pull themselves out of poverty and become share owners. Surely if it was that easy everyone would do it?
They're then lucky enough to buy 20 shares in a gold mine that, in a few weeks, nets them £250k - the equivalent of £40 million in today's money.
But fun nonetheless, and a warm easy show to watch. This isn't Jane Austen or Dickens, but it'll pass away a few winter evenings just fine.
They're then lucky enough to buy 20 shares in a gold mine that, in a few weeks, nets them £250k - the equivalent of £40 million in today's money.
But fun nonetheless, and a warm easy show to watch. This isn't Jane Austen or Dickens, but it'll pass away a few winter evenings just fine.