The English continues on Thursdays at 9pm on BBC Two. All episodes are available on BBC iPlayer now. Billed as "an epic parable on race, love and power", The English is a six-episode miniseries that follows one woman's quest for vengeance in 19th Century America. From all the buzz around the series we've heard so far, it's shaping up to be one of the best BBC dramas of the year.

In Hoxem, farmer Timothy Flynn shoots his wife and then himself. His fellow farmer and former army mate Billy Myers asks Sheriff Marshall if marks were found on the bodies, and Billy's wife Martha confronts Trafford for seizing her unbranded cattle. Learning that Melmont paid for the Flynns' coffins, Marshall discovers their bodies have been dug up, while the Myers' son Jed finds Billy disembowelled and hanged.

The English leaves one in no doubt that America was founded and built upon blood and violence and life threatening struggle - and that 'the land of the free' is a sentiment that some citizens are probably yet to experience.

If not, a thrilling, romantic, epic horse-opera is heading to your screen sometime next year, and I couldn’t be more excited.” String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96, B. 179 "American" (Antonín Dvořák): 2. Lento (Moyzes Quartet)The first thing that occurred to me when I finished the six episodes of The English was to watch them again. The English Episode 6 Episode 1 – S01E01 – What You Want & What You Need• Some Say (I Got Devil) – Melanie Moreau, Jordan (11 January 2023). "SAG Awards 2023 Nominations: 'Banshees' and 'Everything Everywhere' Tie for Most Nods in History". Variety. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023 . Retrieved 13 June 2023. The beautiful score was written by Federico Jusid, a composer who has previously written scores for the Academy Award-winning film The Secret in Their Eyes, BBC’s Watership Down, and Apple TV+‘s recent series Now and Then. has been a treat full of some really good television shows and The English deserves to be right up there amongst those judged as the very best of the crop.