Good morning we are continuing with episode two and this time the six celebrities are working in a Victorian Coach House. They will serve three different coaches. The run time for this episode is 57:46. The time travelers have survived their first day in the Victorian Period. Who will rise to the challenge this week?
The Time Travelers are given new uniforms and had a scrub to fit their station. They will be servants on this day. The Time Travelers immediately think of Upstairs, Downstairs, and Downton Abbey. They walk up to a grand manor house, however, Fi pulls the switch and points them in the direction of the coaching inn. They make their way to the Coaching Inn. The Coaching Inn was the equivalent of a service station. There were horses, horses, and more horses. They had to keep timetables and serve travelers who made their way over the roads. A journey from London to Edinburg took two days. Oftentimes, horses were changed up to 27 Times. Competition among the coaching inns was fierce as everyone need to do their jobs speedily and efficiently. Fi gives them the diaries of people who worked at Coaching Inn and sends them into the inn. Waiting for them are Ian and Emmy Bletchley. They own a pub in real life. Ruth Goodman also greets them as well. Based on his efforts on the last day, Colin has his choice of job. After Colin chooses his job, Ian assigns everyone else their positions. Colin is not keen on horses but will face his fear to be successful in his tasks. The group sets to work on the tasks. The women head to the main building to work in the house. They set to cleaning the rooms and cooking in the kitchen. The men set to work in the horse yard. Ann and Zoe are assigned to the kitchen and immediately refuse to skin a rabbit and pluck a pleasant. Ann and Zoe are completely useless in the kitchen. In real life, they would have been fired for their refusal, but for this experiment, they are kept on. Instead of having a meat soup, the cook will have to cook a more vegetable-based soup. Tyger is a man of all work and cleans the pots. Ian sets him to work. In the man’s time, Miquita has no clue to start a fire and seeks out help to start the fire. The innkeeper’s wife is not sympathetic to Miquita’s fire-lighting plight. The inn hosts its first passengers. They have two hours to prep the coach and tend to the guests. There are a couple of guests spending the night. The guests spread their legs and so the rush is on to get the food cooked and the guest rooms ready for the night. The pressure is on for time travelers. Ann is getting fed up with working in the kitchen. At the end of the night, they all meet with everyone. Ian is not happy with the performance of the staff. Everything has been going slow. Ruth highlights all the problems that happened. She hopes that everyone steps up tomorrow because they will be left in charge. Will the time travelers manage to step it up? Or will midnight visitors cause them to crumble? The work is hard and will they be tossed out on the street before the day is done? I was reminded why I did not like this series. At least the Time Crashers made an effort to participate in the activities. The diaries are also completely useless at this point as well. This series would have been served by providing them a guide to their time period and to the jobs they were going to do. It was almost as if the time travelers did not want to put aside their modern sensibilities in order to fully emerge themselves into the period. I will press on with watching this series for a review that way you don’t have to. So far this is one series to skip showing in a classroom. To make up for how horrible this show was, could we please get a Tony Robinson and Ruth Goodman co-hosted show? I would like to see the pair of them together at least once!
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