Is this a thing? It should be a thing.
Feb. 11th, 2015 06:09 amI have realized that everything media-wise I am in love with lately is British and set in the post-war 40s and 50s.
The Hour. Sadly cancelled but much treasured. I actually fic this show and I don't fic anything anymore.
The Bletchley Circle. Also sadly cancelled. But I need to get the extant seasons on DVD. Women and tech, *and* crime fighting and women adjusting to the postwar world. I totally plan on writing scholarship about this.
Grantchester. So glad that![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nodetective posted about this; there is so much to say about the postwar world and class and the clergy and women's roles and gay men's roles and repressed British men who can't say anything and therefore lose or don't lose the women they love and etc. Plus the lead is a tall blond guy who looks like he could be a relative and who I therefore have a weird semi-incestuous crush on. I feel this way about Hemsworth's Thor, too. (But, ehem, NOT Sleepy Hollow's Hawley.)
Call the Midwife. A little soap-y at times, but so wonderfully female-centered. Great characters.
And my two current American favorites are Agent Carter, which, since it has a British female lead and is definitely post-war, could easily get honorary membership, and Forever, which has frequent enough Henry/Abigail & child Abe 40s & 50s flashbacks (and Henry & Abigail are British), that it at least gets invited to the big holiday parties.
This should be a fandom. This IS my current fandom. It just needs a catchy name. (And other people in it.) I'm positing "UK Postwar" but I'm open to suggestions. Hey, plus every time I wear something vintage-inflected, and probably half of my wardrobe is broadly speaking somehow vintage inflected, I'm giving my fandom a shoutout . . . Much less work than when I got into steampunk!
Weekly Sleepy Hollow snark, this one aimed at the set-dressers: ( Read more... )
The Hour. Sadly cancelled but much treasured. I actually fic this show and I don't fic anything anymore.
The Bletchley Circle. Also sadly cancelled. But I need to get the extant seasons on DVD. Women and tech, *and* crime fighting and women adjusting to the postwar world. I totally plan on writing scholarship about this.
Grantchester. So glad that
nodetective posted about this; there is so much to say about the postwar world and class and the clergy and women's roles and gay men's roles and repressed British men who can't say anything and therefore lose or don't lose the women they love and etc. Plus the lead is a tall blond guy who looks like he could be a relative and who I therefore have a weird semi-incestuous crush on. I feel this way about Hemsworth's Thor, too. (But, ehem, NOT Sleepy Hollow's Hawley.)Call the Midwife. A little soap-y at times, but so wonderfully female-centered. Great characters.
And my two current American favorites are Agent Carter, which, since it has a British female lead and is definitely post-war, could easily get honorary membership, and Forever, which has frequent enough Henry/Abigail & child Abe 40s & 50s flashbacks (and Henry & Abigail are British), that it at least gets invited to the big holiday parties.
This should be a fandom. This IS my current fandom. It just needs a catchy name. (And other people in it.) I'm positing "UK Postwar" but I'm open to suggestions. Hey, plus every time I wear something vintage-inflected, and probably half of my wardrobe is broadly speaking somehow vintage inflected, I'm giving my fandom a shoutout . . . Much less work than when I got into steampunk!
Weekly Sleepy Hollow snark, this one aimed at the set-dressers: ( Read more... )
