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⌈ Secret Post #3763 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Well then, OP, what are your recs for better period dramas set in roughly that time? Genuinely interested here.

[(Anonymous)]

+1 Give us some recs, OP.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Thirded! Recs please!

[(Anonymous)]

If you're set on examples roughly in the same period, then Gosford Park did it better. If you're open to costume dramas in general, North and South (the Elizabeth Gaskell one, not the American Civil War one), any of the BBC Jane Austen adaptations, Wives and Daughters, The Last Kingdom, Endeavour, Peak Blinders, Bleak House, Partners in Crime, Foyle's War,The Crown, The Forsyte Saga, The Madness of King George, Doctor Thorne, Wolf Hall, Bletchley Circle, Anne of Green Gables, Rebecca...

Wasn't Gosford Park also written by the same person?

[(Anonymous)]

And didn't it also have Maggie Smith?

NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Gosford Park was written by Julian Fellowes, who made Downton Abbey, but they're very different beasts, and there's nothing contradictory about saying one is better than the other

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

One can be better, yes. Just, since Gosford Park was basically the germination of Downton Abbey and they share a lot of the same elements, or at least I think they do, I'd put the first series about on par with the movie. To be clear, I liked both, but there were some things I didn't care for in either.

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

It shares a lot of the same elements in the sense that they're about great houses, and the division between upstairs and downstairs. But while Gosford Park doesn't romanticize the relationship between ruling class and servants nearly as much as Downton Abbey does, and it helps that Gosford Park is a single story arc and not a series of increasingly WTF soap opera type plots.

[(Anonymous)]

Woah, look, I love Rebecca. But it is not a period drama just because it's set in a non-modern time.

[(Anonymous)]

How are you defining "period drama"? I don't see why Rebecca doesn't count simply because people aren't running around in corsets and top hats.