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Time out. Eve Best is in this?! Well then.

Lydia Leonard’s voice in general! Ugh…yes.

WHAT MUST IT BE LIKE TO HAVE A SEXY VOICE, MERCY. 

There isn’t? That is shameful! I enjoy her work a lot!

It’s probably because her on-screen work is mainly in supporting actress roles? Like if you search for Absentia, you mostly get Stana Katic as Emily Byrne. You mostly get Gentleman Jack if you search for Lydia Leonard directly--and fans of her voice work for Stars Wars: The Old Republic games, lol. Which, I don’t blame them: I like her voice.

She seems to get quite a bit of recognition and praise for her stage work, though, if tweets are any indication. But stage isn’t very accessible unless you go see a performance. (I do feel sad to hear she got passed over to do the on-screen adaptations of her stage work.)

Debating if I want to take the plunge and watch Absentia to see her in it or go searching for Life in Squares. She plays young Virginia Woolf in Life in Squares, but I don’t think Lydia gets to gay it up as Virginia. XD

They submitted (I posted the list of submissions). I’m not surprised by the absence of nominations. It was a small show, not a wide audience, and a rather late-ish submission.

I have a hard time gauging anything regarding media that involves LGBT+ content--I had the same confusion regarding Killing Eve--but I need to ask: Was it that small?

I was surprised by how much critical coverage it received and it apparently did well enough in terms of viewership that HBO and BBC gave Gentleman Jack a second season when it very easily could have been a one-shot miniseries with how neatly 1x08 wraps up the narrative, particularly the romantic aspect.

I know I heard more about Chernobyl receiving attention in the wake of Game of Thrones finishing in terms of HBO shows people watched, but I can’t imagine GJ did terribly in terms of attention. Unless someone wants to tell me that the viewership numbers of wlw are just that significant on its own. (And, with the nature of the show, we’re possibly talking about a niche within a niche: wlw who like period dramas.)

GJ seems to have done particularly well in the UK from all the buzz and talk I see--and wonderful anecdotes about people in the wlw community being touched by responses and interests from family and friends to the show--so I expect it to have a good showing at the BAFTAs. (But an Emmy nod in any category could have given the show a boost, let’s be honest...)

I love this! The first question that popped up for me: would they have an open relationship if they aren’t under the gender constraints of their era? If they’re both financially independent, could they be together in the way that they truly wanted?

I have about a million questions and 90% of them concern Mariana Belcombe because I don’t know her well enough. Like would she want to remain in the closet and/or at what point would it become acceptable to be “out”? How demonstrative would she and Anne be in public, if at all, or would that come later? What type of gender expression/fashion sense would Anne have and would it make Mariana uncomfortable? If the daughter of a doctor, would she have been educated? Higher education? Would she still consider a marriage of convenience? Or would she work or would Anne Lister hustle well enough to provide for both of them or would Mariana want the security of her own income? Would they consider marriage when same-sex marriage becomes a possibility or would they be more comfortable being attached but not legally?

I also feel like this is a challenge! lol