Is this a thing? It should be a thing.

[chelseagirl]

I 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 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: I was really happy at first with this episode -- a nice Ichabod & Abbie do Mulder & Scully outing. But COME ON, people -- DETAILS! If you really want me to think that Ichabod and Abbie have sacrificed an amazing library that speaks to their role as witnesses, DON'T HAVE ONE OF THE BOOKS Virtual Jefferson points out to them be *clearly labeled* SCOTT'S POEMS on the spine. I fail to believe that Sir Walter Scott's poems are relevant to the Witnesses AND they are anachronistic AND they're still readily available.

OK, I admit I am quite possibly the only one in the world to have noticed and to be bothered by this, but if you put legible book spines in front of me, I WILL read them. ;-)

And you know my opinion of the LAST TWO EPISODES teaser: Um, if you had wanted us to care about or be surprised by Katrina being evil, you could have not dragged this whole thing out. And not made me feel like the scriptwriters were sitting there reading Tumblr and taking notes. Also, and not shown it in the "next week on," so that we might have been ACTUALLY SURPRISED by a so-called "plot twist"?

By the way, that photographer from this week was a total cutie and interesting. He seems like he'd be a great (if too-obvious) potential conflicted love interest for Abbie (*so much better than Hawley*). Except the sum total of my objection to Ichabbie was the whole KATRINA WAITED IN PURGATORY FOR 200 YEARS FOR ICHABOD GIVE HER A BREAK and that objection's pretty much shot now. So no need for an alternative love interest now -- pity we didn't have this guy instead of Hawley all season, though.

Comments

[merisunshine36]

I looooved The Hour. Sad to hear that Bletchley circle was cancelled as I haven't seen any of it! I should go marathon it. I know it's popular, and perhaps some people will want to chat about it at Muskrat Jamboree.

[chelseagirl]

There are two seasons of Bletchley; they're perfect as is, though it's so sad there aren't more.

The Hour is just still my favorite. I've written it for the past two Yuletides, now, and I rather hope I get it again next year. ;-) (I'd love to write it in-between, too, but life has a way of sidetracking me without the big festival deadline.)

[ancarett]

I'd subscribe to that fandom, too, although I have a lot of shows on that list still languishing on my to-watch list. Basically, anything British that isn't Downton Abbey which leaves me cold for some reason.

[chelseagirl]

I used to love Downton, but after the second season, it jumped the proverbial shark. I watch it for the clothes, now.

[space-oddity-75.livejournal.com]

Well, if you want to stretch to a 1960s British setting, I strongly suggest 'Endeavour'. It's the prequel of the Inspector Morse series, and has got Roger Allam and Shaun Evans in it. The setting is superb - who can resist academic Oxford, after all? - and the actors and stories are great. There's a prequel and two full seasons so far, and season three will soon start shooting. Curious enough to give it a go?

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

I watched the first episode; I thought it was good but it didn't get caught up in it, but I also have never seen Inspector Morse. I tend to have certain things that attract me to shows, including the presence of interesting female primary, or substantial secondary, characters (poor Annie had to do so much duty for me in Life on Mars!), and I'd be more likely to try this again if it has such a character/s.

But I'm into the idea of this fandom being a thing, and if this show fits the qualificiations, it's welcome even if it's not one of my things! I guess it depends on when in the 60s -- I love the late 60s, but that's a whole different era.

I might start a Tumblr and see if anyone comes along to follow it . . .

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

It's set during WWII, not after, but have you seen Danger UXB?

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

A million years ago. ;-) I missed most of it because it came during the decade where I didn't own a TV, but a saw a few at my parents' house.