Lo, she is back!
Mar. 25th, 2019 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessVictoria 3.1 Uneasy Head Crown (I missed some words from the title)
Well, at least Lawrence Fox was having a ball! I’d been grumbling at the lack of Diana Rigg, but he kind of made up for it.
Look, I had to laugh at the accidental and intentional resonance with current affairs.
So, Victoria is pregnant and has unwanted family members staying at her pad/palace. That’s nothing new, is it?
As for the newbies, the actress cast as Feodora really did remind me of their mother, so that was good casting. For someone who needed a roof over her head, the character seemed to have no clue how not to irritate the owner of said roof.
We also had a pretty young duchess with a horribly snobby and unappreciative husband. Palmerton and a brand new footman seemed willing to be appreciative.
The show had enough self-awareness to be dealing with Chartism by raising Suffragettes, even though they were decades apart. If like me, you’d snarked about the working woman reflexively, you soon got many, many characters doing the same. We also got a ‘We know you all watched “The Greatest Showman”’ P.T. Barnum reference.
Nursery contingent: Bertie doesn’t want to be king. Vickie, who is older than him, seems like she’d be more competent as a monarch. Did Victoria really give birth while the palace was under siege (again)? I mean, I squint at most of the historical details except in relation to wigs (I should have worked a Whig joke into that), and I’m hazy on a lot of stuff, but I sniffed Dramatic Licence.
The actual title of the episode could apply to Penge as much as Victoria. The footman who has been on the show since forever now looks as if he could leave sixth form college for uni. (On that, is Jenna Coleman going to play Victoria until she turns into Judi Dench?)
And Skerrit’s dilemma really irritated me. If you’ve decided to marry The Moustache (needy and demanding as he is) COMMIT. I am not minded to spend the whole series watching their very long engagement. Victoria might sulk, but she’d find another dresser (one who wouldn’t improbably introduce her to Chartist needlewomen, who consorted with two conveniently opposing representatives of Chartism, and one obvious undercover police officer).
But, truly, I had to laugh – there was actual cane twirling from Fox.
Well, at least Lawrence Fox was having a ball! I’d been grumbling at the lack of Diana Rigg, but he kind of made up for it.
Look, I had to laugh at the accidental and intentional resonance with current affairs.
So, Victoria is pregnant and has unwanted family members staying at her pad/palace. That’s nothing new, is it?
As for the newbies, the actress cast as Feodora really did remind me of their mother, so that was good casting. For someone who needed a roof over her head, the character seemed to have no clue how not to irritate the owner of said roof.
We also had a pretty young duchess with a horribly snobby and unappreciative husband. Palmerton and a brand new footman seemed willing to be appreciative.
The show had enough self-awareness to be dealing with Chartism by raising Suffragettes, even though they were decades apart. If like me, you’d snarked about the working woman reflexively, you soon got many, many characters doing the same. We also got a ‘We know you all watched “The Greatest Showman”’ P.T. Barnum reference.
Nursery contingent: Bertie doesn’t want to be king. Vickie, who is older than him, seems like she’d be more competent as a monarch. Did Victoria really give birth while the palace was under siege (again)? I mean, I squint at most of the historical details except in relation to wigs (I should have worked a Whig joke into that), and I’m hazy on a lot of stuff, but I sniffed Dramatic Licence.
The actual title of the episode could apply to Penge as much as Victoria. The footman who has been on the show since forever now looks as if he could leave sixth form college for uni. (On that, is Jenna Coleman going to play Victoria until she turns into Judi Dench?)
And Skerrit’s dilemma really irritated me. If you’ve decided to marry The Moustache (needy and demanding as he is) COMMIT. I am not minded to spend the whole series watching their very long engagement. Victoria might sulk, but she’d find another dresser (one who wouldn’t improbably introduce her to Chartist needlewomen, who consorted with two conveniently opposing representatives of Chartism, and one obvious undercover police officer).
But, truly, I had to laugh – there was actual cane twirling from Fox.
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Date: 2019-03-25 08:44 pm (UTC)No spoilers here but I didn't know Laurence Fox had joined the show this year so it was a pleasant surprise to see him. I very much enjoyed his portrayal of Palmerston during the series.
And Vicky is an absolute joy to watch. I think she'd have made a good Queen of England.
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Date: 2019-03-30 08:08 am (UTC)Obviously some of the spoilers for the show will be histroy I should know, but discretion is appreciated :)
Fox's performance seems like it could be infectious - I mean it as a compliment when I say I'd like to see him in a Heyer adaptation.
I think she'd have made a good Queen of England.
Well, surely, that was their point - and it wouldn't just be England, obvs, as the British Empire was at its apogee.