I didn't watch this but people around me had it on TV when I was in the vicinity and I ended up seeing 10 minutes where some poor (young female) servant was found to be having OMG A TYPEWRITER and basically got fired (or almost fired? I don't recall) for simply owning it, and ended up getting pretty much told off in front of everybody she worked with in a very nasty public way.
Since that was the only 10 minutes of it I saw at all, the impression I got was quite different!
I am not at all interested in period stuff basically, I'll only watch it if it's fanservice and pretty faces like Merlin or BBC Robin Hood have been and even then I pretty much watch it in spite of the setting not because of it. I suspect this is because I am not a fan of pretty costumes and I find historical stuff is either totally unrealistic in many ways (eg Merlin, RH, etc.) or too depressing to cope with because of all the -isms you outlined above.
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Since that was the only 10 minutes of it I saw at all, the impression I got was quite different!
I am not at all interested in period stuff basically, I'll only watch it if it's fanservice and pretty faces like Merlin or BBC Robin Hood have been and even then I pretty much watch it in spite of the setting not because of it. I suspect this is because I am not a fan of pretty costumes and I find historical stuff is either totally unrealistic in many ways (eg Merlin, RH, etc.) or too depressing to cope with because of all the -isms you outlined above.