I did. It wasn't bad, but to my mind could have been better. But I am very pernickity.
The good news is it wasn't as dumbed-down as some of them can be, and since it was BBC, and therefore no ads**, we were spared those awful repetitions after every break to remind everyone what they'd reminded us of umpteen times before. There was other repetition which could have been excised though, eg the same panning shots over the excavations, a CGI of palisades going up, and her expressions of delight, and she was so keen to stress how the inhabitants were probably European "immigrants" (her word) and that they were part of a wonderful pan-European trading group it would undoubtedly have been a bone of contention with Brexiteers if it had been shown pre-referendum!
She buzzed over to Lake Constance to see a replica lake-village, and to a German museum with a gorgeous metal depiction of the night sky which they think was a planting guide, both well worth seeing, though I'm not sure why the latter was relevant to the Must Farm site save in a general sense of what was happening in the Bronze Age, and in both cases I'd have liked to have been told a lot more eg about the construction of the village. And they had a couple of re-enactment type things. The first was building and then setting fire to a round house so a forensic archeologist could see how quickly it burned, which I thought rather a waste of time -- it burned quickly, but so what? -- while the interesting investigation happened off screen when he came to the conclusion the fire had started inside a house. The second was a bronze-smith making a sword -- they've found lots there, and plenty of arrow heads, axe heads, and scythes, all of which looked like new! -- and that was very good, but again I'd have liked more detail.
As ever there were far too many mood shots -- Alice Roberts looking thoughtful, lovely scenes of reeds rippling over lakes and the like -- and for my taste not nearly enough concrete information: we were told the bowls still contained food, but not what kind of food it was (OK they need to do tests, but I'd expect some ideas); we saw animal bones, but no discussion of what creatures they came from; we saw a tool used for beating plants to get the fibres for cloth-making, but little detail of how it was used or what plants.
Overall, to my mind the actual info given could easily have been condensed into a much shorter programme. If they had to make it an hour's length, then they could have had more of the archeologists and experts talking of what they'd found. So for me, it was only around 7½/10.
** but there were regular pauses, and I can't help thinking it was designed to be shown elsewhere which would have ads, and they'd built ad-zones into it all ready for a voice-over!
