Cancelled after one season.. I called it.
This is yet another 2022 "period piece" which is written through the lens of 2022.
Characters blindly accept what was knowingly not acceptable for the time period. This show is just another in a long string of "period pieces" which relies on the mindsets of 2022 when writing for the "period" in question.
The most obvious, glaring, inaccurate aspect... a "step-mother". Really? As if divorce and "step"-anything existed in the 19th century. I'd hazard a guess that "step" is a term unique to the late 20th century. Am I expected to believe there were divorce lawyers and divorce/family courts in the 19th century as well???
At best this was a blatant attempt to not offend ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE. At worst, it's an attempt to rewrite history. Overall, it's a disservice the the viewers to pretend some period in time was NOT actual what it was - with all its misguided thinking, poor treatment of others, bigotry, and outright abuse. It pushes this into the realm of "fabricated reality for propaganda purposes", produced and written by weak-willed group thinkers, rather than being "entertainment".
This is yet another 2022 "period piece" which is written through the lens of 2022.
Characters blindly accept what was knowingly not acceptable for the time period. This show is just another in a long string of "period pieces" which relies on the mindsets of 2022 when writing for the "period" in question.
The most obvious, glaring, inaccurate aspect... a "step-mother". Really? As if divorce and "step"-anything existed in the 19th century. I'd hazard a guess that "step" is a term unique to the late 20th century. Am I expected to believe there were divorce lawyers and divorce/family courts in the 19th century as well???
At best this was a blatant attempt to not offend ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE. At worst, it's an attempt to rewrite history. Overall, it's a disservice the the viewers to pretend some period in time was NOT actual what it was - with all its misguided thinking, poor treatment of others, bigotry, and outright abuse. It pushes this into the realm of "fabricated reality for propaganda purposes", produced and written by weak-willed group thinkers, rather than being "entertainment".