In the decade that was simply ‘the worst of times’, we went from Downton Abbey dross to a swaggering masterwork about the first modern lesbian. Costume drama has loosened its corset at last!
As a lens through which to view the past, period drama is the “obstinate, headstrong girl!” of British culture. If you want to get all Jane Austen about it, which of course you do. The genre most blindly beloved by the country has spent decades stubbornly shooing history away with a gloved hand in favour of a more manicured version of how we used to live.
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