Green Acres
La fattoria dei giorni felici
Ambientata ad Hooterville (Illinois), la storia è quella dei coniugi Douglas, che decidono di abbandonare New York per trasferirsi in una fattoria di 160 acri: l'avvocato Oliver è entusiasta; la moglie Lisa è disperata perché non potrà più dedicarsi allo shopping a Park Avenue. Strano a dirsi sarà proprio lei ad adattarsi meglio allo spirito della campagna mentre Oliver continua a ragionare come se fosse in città.
Richardha recensito
3 novembre 2025•
Saw it on TV in the late ’80s on Sky Channel and it felt like someone dropped a Manhattan lawyer into a haystack and filmed the confusion.
Oliver Wendell Douglas wants the simple life, so he drags his glamorous wife Lisa from New York to a farm in Hooterville.
What follows is six seasons of surreal comedy, talking pigs, malfunctioning tractors and neighbors who operate on their own brand of logic. Eva Gabor sparkles as Lisa, delivering Hungarian accented one liners with couture flair, while Eddie Albert’s Oliver slowly unravels in the face of rural absurdity.
The tone? Whimsical, offbeat and proudly nonsensical.
It’s not just a fish out of water story, it’s a satire of modernity, bureaucracy and the American dream, wrapped in cornfields and canned laughter.
The show breaks the fourth wall, bends reality and never apologizes for being weird.
Watching it again on feels like stepping into a sitcom that knew it was smarter than it looked. And if you caught it on Sky Channel in the late ’80s, you probably wondered how something so vintage could still feel so fresh and so wonderfully bonkers.
Richardha recensito
3 novembre 2025•
Saw it on TV in the late ’80s on Sky Channel and it felt like someone dropped a Manhattan lawyer into a haystack and filmed the confusion.
Oliver Wendell Douglas wants the simple life, so he drags his glamorous wife Lisa from New York to a farm in Hooterville.
What follows is six seasons of surreal comedy, talking pigs, malfunctioning tractors and neighbors who operate on their own brand of logic. Eva Gabor sparkles as Lisa, delivering Hungarian accented one liners with couture flair, while Eddie Albert’s Oliver slowly unravels in the face of rural absurdity.
The tone? Whimsical, offbeat and proudly nonsensical.
It’s not just a fish out of water story, it’s a satire of modernity, bureaucracy and the American dream, wrapped in cornfields and canned laughter.
The show breaks the fourth wall, bends reality and never apologizes for being weird.
Watching it again on feels like stepping into a sitcom that knew it was smarter than it looked. And if you caught it on Sky Channel in the late ’80s, you probably wondered how something so vintage could still feel so fresh and so wonderfully bonkers.
