constancebryce

And oh my God, it is awful. I will admit right now I am not enchanted with making the old new again...why can't it just be mostly old? Period drama is meant to show what life looked like in a specific period. I hate hate hate when new music is added to eras hundreds of years ago. I hate when the hairstyles on the females show long flowing locks that would never have been seen loose like that ever, and only even down on girls under 11 or so...and even then neatly braided etc...why do producers think modern people can't look at people from other times in history as they were? Sure, diversity is one thing but please dress the actors according to the era and have them say things those people would have said. I used to watch BBC period drama to learn about costumes and customs of a particular period. Now the fad is to plop modern actors into fancy prom dresses and let them rock out while showing how independent and feisty they are. That's fine for Mean Girls or Clue remakes but Edith Wharton wrote classic serious novels that showed how constrained women were by the societies they lived in. Sometimes they broke out but they always paid a price. I know this show was not targeted to me, that much is clear, but I made the mistake of hoping it would be done like the 1995 version which was excellent and still shows the personalities of the young women without turning them into manic pixies on acid. Now I just hope Hollywood leaves these old stories alone, I can always watch the better versions thank heavens.