Top 5 favourite things about CTM
From @superfluousbananas 1. Not constantly adhering to standardised views of Hollywood typical beauty in the actors. This is a huge thing for me because I'm sick of American television only having skinny, airbrushed people on TV. Yes, they have gorgeous people on CTM but they're more like your typical humans you may run into on the street instead of some unattainable image. 2. Real, relatable stories. You can actually find something that connects you to many of the plots or at least one or two so it's not so fantastical that you can't relate. 3. Historical accuracy (for the majority of the time.) I'm a history teacher and many times I find myself cringing at certain period dramas that are historically inaccurate. This is not one of them. 4. Non-standard pairings. It's not always the two young, attractive, cookie-cutter human beings that are falling in love with each other. (Patrick and Shelagh have the nun-thing as well as the age difference; Fred and Violet are older and not 100lbs sopping wet; etc etc etc). 5. Invokes real emotion. I've never had a television program that has caused me to sob uncontrollably so many times. It can be from the tiny nuances of the actors, to the plot, to one simple heartbreaking line. And it's not always sad tears either - many are happy. But the one line which broke me completely and has pushed me to wanting to focus on classroom adaptations for children with special needs was when Jacob uttered the line "There's a biscuit factory next door. They let us have the broken ones." Never cried so hard from a single line in my life.
