#Period comedy

[chaberkowepole]

Hey Tumblr, there's a new historical/period comedy series on Netflix which you will love! It's called 1670! It's about Polish nobility and their peasant-thralls. However, Netflix is not promoting it to international audiences, bc it's Polish, even though there are subtitles available in so many languages!

It has:

Great Humour

Amazing Polish Folk Music

Historical Costumes that are not Western!

CANON LESBIANS

One of the said lesbians is a repressed lesbian w religious trauma & the subplot lasts longer than one episode

Priest Jakub

A really good combination of making historical and ahistorical jokes

And much more!

Seriously, give it a watch bc I'd hate to see only my Polish mutuals watch it, it's new, it's fresh, it's witty, not another remake, and it shows another culture & history! (aren't you tired of watching yet another show on the English monarchy, then 1670 is there for ya)

[howicked]

One can’t be too careful, Molly. They’re everywhere, you know. The Catholic threat may be sleeping now, but it will soon awaken like a...

Bear?

Yes. Good. Like a non-muscular, spineless bear!

[oceancentury]

I feel like nobody talked enough about Elle Fanning’s performance in season 3 of The Great.

[stelly38]

Watched the new adaptation of Tom Jones this past week.  It was cute.  Seems reviewers mostly liked it.  I thought it was enjoyable, goofy claptrap.  I saw the 1963 Albert Finney version years ago, and I don’t remember much about it, except that my father had loved it back in the day, so I probably watched it without much interest.  

I thought the two primaries were charming together, and wished for more scenes for the two of them.  But alas, then we wouldn’t have the hero’s journey, and all the ensuing goofiness.  I’ve never read Fielding’s book, but understand much of the “goofiness” that comes across onscreen springs from the author’s scathing commentary on social conventions of the day.  

Costumes and sets were gorgeous--visually, it was a treat to watch.  Not a bad way to kill 4 hours.  Wine would have made it better.   

[paulinedorchester]

Semi-random 18th century notes:

Marie Antoinette, s1e7:

Did anyone else notice that Ancien Régime maternity wear looks almost like Directoire style?

Tom Jones, e1:

A confession: I've never read the novel. However, I do know the 1963 film version (the existence of which makes me question the need for the present mini-series), and I'm also familiar with a stage adaptation by David Rogers that was and is a favorite of my high school drama teacher.

In neither of these do I recall anything about Sophia being "from the other side of the world," let alone the daughter of an enslaved woman and a plantation owner. Is this something from the novel that was excised from earlier adaptations, or is it an invention of the people behind the new version?

[filmgifs]

THE FAVOURITE 2018 — dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone and Peter Lorre

The Comedy of Terrors (1963) // dir. Jacques Tourneur

[blooeyedtroll]

So, guess who just binged-watched Dimension 20’s “A Court of Fey and Flowers”?…me. And it’s going to happily rot in my skull for all times and I couldn’t be more overjoyed <3

[heatherfield]

Dash Gunfire: private eye, public nuisance.

The Case of the Gilded Lily [x]

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Classical Period (Ted Fendt, 2018)

[dailyflicks]

S1E01 The Great S2E02 Dickhead

THE GREAT (2020— )

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

I Am All In Rewatch - Luke & Jess - Episode 2x12

Yeah, well you couldn't. You couldn't handle too much Milo, because then he'd take over the show. He'd take over the show. That's why you just get little glimpses. You're getting little glimpses of Milo of Luke because you don't want these people to take over the show...These characters are too powerful. -Scott

[howicked]

BILL (2015) + letterboxd reviews

[tomfrogisblue]

purgatory one was such an irl fever dream

No One Made It Out Unscathed.

everyone on every day at the exact second the server opens, weekly or monthly streamers suddenly becoming daily streamers, chill players suddenly calculating out which food gives the best saturation or how to get 0.1% of a point better on missions, Tubbo having actual nightmares, Cellbit's voice that wasn't great at the start taking even more of a beating due to constant screaming, Roier fully losing his shit a week and a half in - leading to a completely player-driven reset of how the xp and enchantment systems were being utilised (Because Everyone Was Fucking Miserable), the point where the gay ninjas had been eliminated but not told what would happen to them so everyone was like really weirdly intensely stressed out for about 14 hours, Tubbo just being too actually psyched out to beat Phil in the 1v1, how REAL the emotions were from the creators when they finally saw their kids again and THEN THE ROOF STARTED TO CAVE IN, loads of creators just taking a full break from the server when the nuke went off with a bunch of them not returning for MONTHS, the creators later being asked if they want to join purgatory two and many being like "lmao, no ❤️" and two characters (very much main characters in terms of lore) straight up canonically dying in the nuke blast

and there was just... a vibe to it. our eggs will die if we lose. if we're not being lied to AND if we're not the cursed team. how do we know who's the cursed team? should we lose on purpose if we're not? we're obviously the cursed team (EVERY TEAM SAID THIS).

and the chatters didn't escape the psychological torture this event organically produced. our children have been missing for months at this point and it almost doesn't matter who wins because everyone is at the end of their tether and absolutely every egg could theoretically die.

Enjoy, Sinners.

[film365]

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) — 115/365

[cacartoon]

Gold