A time of great social change. But some idiot decided to lead with absurd figures in stag skulls.
And most of the rest is trivia.
Like many others, it glamorizes crime. Not the squalid reality of actual crime.
This wastes a lot of effort that must have been put into making the people look like the period.
And then dumps in some modern pop songs. Someone at the BBC must have decided that every historic drama must have pop dumped into it, to reassure the audience. It was just as wasteful in a drama about the Roman invasion of Britain. Fascinating real events were discarded for a mix of silly mysticism and pop.
And most of the rest is trivia.
Like many others, it glamorizes crime. Not the squalid reality of actual crime.
This wastes a lot of effort that must have been put into making the people look like the period.
And then dumps in some modern pop songs. Someone at the BBC must have decided that every historic drama must have pop dumped into it, to reassure the audience. It was just as wasteful in a drama about the Roman invasion of Britain. Fascinating real events were discarded for a mix of silly mysticism and pop.