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Even though Clarkson's Farm season 5 episodes 7 and 8 dropped on Prime Video yesterday (June 17), I still can't get my head around what happened.
In true Jezza style, one thing after another went wrong, from struggling with the harvest to a TB (tuberculosis) outbreak among the cattle.
However, none of this trumped the shock announcement that Jeremy has been diagnosed with cancer, which he revealed to farm staff Kaleb and Charlie in the middle of episode 7.
Revealing that he will be away for a significant portion of the year's harvest, Jeremy describes the cancer as "aggressive" but "very early stages." He hopes to be "in and out" for an operation in July 2025, but has known about his health status since that May.
Nothing further is mentioned until the very last scene of episode 8, when an ambulance arrives at Diddly Squat. We cut to Jeremy in a hospital bed, who explains that his cancer treatment has gone "awry."
"If all goes well, I'll see you for season 6," he signs off with. "If not, I won't. Take care, everyone."
We know that season 6 has been in the process of filming throughout 2026, which I'd like to think means good news for Jeremy's health.
Even so, fans think they've spotted signs that this might not be the case, revealing they "sobbed multiple times" thanks to so many bad things happening at once.
'Absolutely brutal... gut punch after gut punch'
"That was a rough last two episodes," one fan posted on Reddit. "Goodness me, it was just bad news after bad news. Then to end off the episode with Jeremy back in the hospital right after he goes, 'well at least it can’t get any worse.' This was quite the season."
"I sobbed multiple times," another fan weighed in, with a third adding, "Absolutely brutal. Gut punch after gut punch."
It wasn't just the cancer diagnosis that got this reaction from fans, either. As one explained, "Really just a throat punch when they revealed that the pregnant cow they had to kill didn’t even have TB.
"That’s just really terrible, and I genuinely feel awful not just for Jeremy, but all other farmers who have to experience this. I’ve seriously never seen Jeremy so rightly p**sed off and confused."
Another said, "I think this season has been the most depressing and upsetting season, saying goodbye to the pigs, the s**t harvest, cancer, TB and the cows. What a horrible year it was for them all."
When Clarkson's Farm was first commissioned, Jeremy promised to show "warts and all" farming — and season 5 has easily gone above and beyond that. But all things considered, the show's staple sense of humor hasn't completely faded.
As one fan summed up, "I went from crying over both cows to dying laughing about Gerald's phone ringing in the middle of it all. The joy of watching Clarkson's Farm!"
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