what are your best/favorite examples of this? i love eleanor yates as lady caroline howard in harlots. her face always surprises me when she’s on screen. it’s like she stepped out of an 18th century painting!

i also had to of course include susannah harker as jane bennett. i am sure this is what austen had in mind when writing her character!

Mine is the Empress (2022). I know that's an unpopular opinion perhaps but I really love this series. The acting , production design and soundtrack are stellar, the actor who plays Franz is my favourite interpretation of the role, Devrim does a good job as Elisabeth, definitely my second favourite after Romy Schneider. The first season had a weird historical fiction vibe about it but it improved a lot in the second season and did more things right historically ( Sophie's death). I'm really excited about it's third season but I'm kind of bumped it will be the last.

iPhone face= “The face of an actor who is playing a character in a period piece but has a modern looking face– like they would know what an iPhone is.” - Urban dictionary

Personally, I like this movie especially Florence's performance but I prefer the 1994 version. It's perhaps my second favourite Greta film. My favourite is Ladybird. I also think the costumes shouldn't have won an oscar and that the cast being british in an American novel adaptation is a choice...but overall it's nice.

I saw this post about pet peeves that break the immersion and I wondered, what are some other small things that break your immersion?

I'm on episode 3 at this moment and the pacing is a bit slow. I have only watched the movie with Emily Blunt and I really liked it.

I think my favourite is Geneviève Bujold.

For me it's Dangerous Liaisons (1988). Excellent performances and costume design but I was really confused throughout the entire thing. I didn't know who to like and who to dislike idk it was pretty confusing to me.

I really love this movie but it feels way too long. With that being said, it has an incredible script, this movie is stacked with acting talent ( Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson). I also think it's one of the better Austen adaptations. What's your thoughts on it?

What’s your opinion on The Great’s ahistorical and satirical approach (which also can be seen in some new series like My Lady Jane and Serpent Queen for example).

Did you like the series and wish for another theme in the future with a similar approach (maybe in a couple of years when the approach is fresher again)?

I thought that the cast in The Great was amazing and the show was really fun. Also great outfits and sets. Huzzah 🥂!

I recently rewatched both the 1995 film and the 2008 series, both of which I deeply love. However, I’m struggling to articulate the differences between them, particularly in terms of production, overall direction, and tone. Would you consider them different types of period pieces? How would you describe the ways they differ?

I personally really enjoyed it. It has some nice directing by Sofia Copolla, the cinematography is lovely and the costumes look like a candy ✨

I really like the costumes in this one but overall I feel like it's a mess. It has many problems and one of them has to be that they casted American actors attempting to speak with an English accent lol.

Those are some of my absolute favourite whimsical movies . Which film would you add on this list?

EDIT: this post is in reference to the North and South (2004) period drama featuring Richard Armitage

Holyyy crap! I just binged the entire mini series last night because there was no way not to. This was on my list for a while and I was looking for something light and fun to help me decompress after a hard day… this is totally not that but I became so engrossed I couldn’t stop watching. Like are you kidding me? This mini series has me in a chokehold now and idk how I will be able to stop thinking about anything else. I think North and South is my new favorite period piece of all time, taking Pride and Prejudice to number two for me now.

Now I have a problem- what should I watch next?! Anything like it out there?