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rslade
Sep 18, 2020rslade rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
OK, Gloria likes period pieces, so this was a possibility, but I wasn't sure a nineteenth century lesbian love story was going to cut it. (On the other hand, a lot of Georgian marriages weren't about sex, but about domestic comfort.) OK, yes, it *is* a lesbian love story. But it is also very well written, and well-acted, with (mostly) sympathetic characters. It seems to be reasonably researched (although the dialogue is often anachronistic). The conceit of breaking the fourth wall, for the diary extracts, is not overdone, and the show even makes a kind of self-referential joke about it in one scene. The sex scenes, though almost graphic, are not there simply for titillation, and add to the depth of the characterizations. It's really well done, and they have left the series well-placed for a second season.