After all the build-up and heart break,
Miss Hopkins chose dear, sweet Mr Everett after all and kicked the charming but stand-offish Mr. Carrington to the curb, though the rose petals almost conned her And people finally smooched and even had sex! My faith in British libidos is restored!
Everett is a mopey loser. And a whipped one, now.
As charming as the overflowing bosoms were, I fear I was looking more at the men’s clothes. The Regency was the absolute high point of men’s fashion. I’d go on a super-duper diet if there were some place I could dress like that.
I laughed that, though the maids were dolled up for that dinner served by the gentlemen, the footmen wore their uniforms. I had to explain to my daughters the role of a footman was to look BAY-AD! and they were supposed to look just fine in uniform.
Capt Glover’s prize seemed rather high. There must’ve been terrible inflation in the 18th century if his third was £50,000 for one ship because a hundred years before I could’ve put him behind the wheel of a low-mileage bark for just a few hundred pounds.
I’m glad she picked Mr. Everett – I think she made the right choice. I don’t think he’s a mopey loser – or whipped.
I would have liked some update as to whether any of these couples went on IRL after the show – esp. Mr. Gorrell Barnes and either the countess or whatsherface who he was carrying on with throughout. Miss Hopkins’s chaperone.
I also loved the woman who wanted to become a courtesan – and Mrs. Rogers’s comment that she seemed cut out for the life…
All in all, a really good series, I enjoyed it a lot.
I wanted them to go to the present and see “Where are they now” bit.
I didn’t tape the last episode, and I was knitting, so I might have missed a bit. But during the dinner where the men waited on the servants, did one of the servants actually pee into a chamber pot behind a screen in the dining room? Is this in anyway historically accurate…people peeing in the dining room not three feet from where people are eating?
Yes it happened – and yes, apparently it’s historically accurate. :eek: (See the sixth paragraph of this.)
I have only watched a short bit of this series and I could eat it up with a spoon I love it so much.
I hope my library will carry the DVD version…
Shirley
Who just lurves the Regency Time Period.