To me, historical drama is partly about immersion. Having characters in there who have been race-swapped is jarring, and breaks the immersion. It’s not a slight on the actors themselves or their race… (View Post)

Classic example of something that works - Bridgerton. It’s deliberately written as being light-hearted, anachronistic but with Regency era settings. It’s not my cup of tea at all, but that doesn’t fa… (View Post)

Yes, often it’s the disconnect which is jarring. Particularly when writers and researchers fall over themselves trying to make sets and costumes etc as accurate and realistic as possible. (View Post)

There are plenty of reasons why I wouldn’t vote for Reform right now, Farage being a snake oil salesman who I don’t think capable of holding a party together in government being the main one of them.… (View Post)

Labour are snookered on this. Even if Starmer and Cooper came round to the way of thinking is to disapply the ECHR, any other conventions etc and scale back judicial discretion (which I am pretty sur… (View Post)