#mr selfridge

[schestokryl]

I wanted to do this one for quite some time

Close ups under bellow

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OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN as Roddy Temple in MR. SELFRIDGE

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[none-ofthisnonsense]

why is no one on this website talking about victor colleano

[farnworths]

Mr Selfridge - Season 2, Episode 5

[sir-griswold-of-macelwain]

You know how like "regency novels" written recently often pride themselves to be just like Jane Austen but feature dukes and marquesses and princes while Jane Austen's highest main character was... what, a baronnet? aka the second lowest rank of nobility?

Well I think there's also something about Period DramasTM which try to ride on the Downton Abbey wave by having plethora of historical characters, real life royalties as main and/or recurring characters, and where the main characters always find themselves into the biggest historical events the writers could find in that time period, meanwhile Downton Abbey had, outside of historical characters, 1 Duke and 1 marquess, the Duke was there for one episode and the Marquess for only the last two episodes (ik bertie was there longer but. only was a marquess for that time) + the movies, and the royal family itself featured in 2 episodes (counting movie n°1 as an episode). Otherwise, we had like 3 famous people (Chamberlain, Dame Nellie Melba, and Noel Coward), all dropping in, being rather down to earth depictions, and dropping out. The events are self contained, seeing bustling London is rare, the main characters have very little influence on historical events, the Titanic wreck had quite a bit of influence on them and the war/spanish flu as well, but the stock market crash of 29 or the Albanian Talks or the Marconi Scandal or Lloyd George's labour party being voted in are barely relevant, although they are brushed upon in conversation.

Which I think ironically is why All creatures great and small (rural yorkshire, interpersonal drama, no historical characters unless you count the fact it's an adapted autobiography so everyone's more or less historical) is a better series for Downton Abbey fans than Upstairs Downstairs (the remake/reboot, not the old tv show), despite Upstairs Downstairs being about a family and their servants much the same way DA is, or Mr Selfridge, which also has masters and servants (employers and employees, more like) living side by side and being equally important (Mr Selfridge has a historical character every episode of season 1, the IRL Dolly Sisters are main characters in season 4 iirc, the Selfridges themselves are historical) (Upstairs Downstairs has the main character be a personnal friend of Edward VIII's and George VI's little brother, who appears frequently and asks him for advice about his brothers; another main character becomes Joachim von Ribbentrop's lover, it's implied the Kinderntransport AND Edward VIII's abdications were only possible thanks to main characters' interferences...)

Which isn't to say one show is better than the other or one formula is better than the other. It's just which things are the focus and how closely the family is supposed to have tied with real History, vs the actual plot, the latter of which most people consider when recommanding a series.

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Blue dresses Round 1- Group C: Lady Mae Loxley, Mr Selfridge vs Anne Shirley-Cuthbert, Anne with an E (gifset)

Best dress?

Mae's dress (left)

Anne's dress (right)

Voting ended onAug 28, 2024

Propagandas (written by submitters)

For Mae's dress: Another pic

For Anne's dress: okay so i am not actually a huge fan of the costumes from this show in general (mostly bc i have the sullivan version as a point of comparison and the clothes on that bitch were IMMACULATE) however, i feel like this particular dress deserves to be in the running. it was a significant moment for the character, in a "look how grown she is! look how far we've come!" kinda way. plus the vibrancy of the blue is *mwah* gorgeous

[ivycopper]

Ok, I'll post this here bc I think it's kinda been swept under the rug/played down by a lot of outlets. And the BBC aren't really addressing it, so I'm worried she might be put on some kind of unofficial blacklist. So I think as viewers, we should pay attention.

I believe her.

Obligatory disclaimer, bc those ghouls latch onto women's suffering like leeches: terfs dni. This post is not abt you or trans ppl, this post is abt Amanda and others who went through a pretty harrowing experience.