period-dramallama

The week after Cromwell's execution he sends a round robin email about wellness

bearer of the curse known as 'i find it boring when characters in historical fiction think, feel, behave and sound exactly like modern-day people'

I'm all for Catherine Parr talking about her experiences as Henry's wife but not at the dinner table, c'mon. That should have been a private scene with just Elizabeth. And did she have to be disparaging to Anne and Catherine? Given she found herself in the same peril as them, wouldn't that inspire some sympathy or compassion for them? And surely a woman as intelligent as Catherine won't believe Anne was really guilty. And even if she did, did she have to rub it in Elizabeth's face like that? In front of everyone? Catherine can say she loves Elizabeth until she's blue in the face but I don't believe her.

It's wack to watch knowing that I, with my weaponsgrade autism, STILL have a better chance of surviving Henry VIII than these total dumdums.

jrm’s pronunciation of paternoster being pasta-noster… 😭😭

it does always piss me off when a historical drama only costumes the characters meant to be unattractive or unsympathetic in historically accurate clothing, while the attractive/sympathetic ones are given essentially contemporary costumes with a slight historical flavor. the past is a foreign country and mainstream film treats it just like one