On the Rag

Knock knock, bitch.

Watch it, Mr. Rochester. Five more mean comments and I’ll devote my whole life to you.

Somehow Lindsay had managed to never see this movie at any point in the last 20 years. We set that aright this week, and we enjoyed watching the shenanigans of a bunch of rich kids (and Tom Ripley) bumming around Italy in the 1950s.

This week we watched the 2008 no-worries romp Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, starring Amy Adams and Frances McDormand, plus a bunch of fantastic supporting actors. It was an easy-breezy hour and a half, and worth a rewatch if you haven’t seen it in a while.

This week we watched the 1984 Mozart biopic Amadeus, which is undeniably well-made but just SUCH a downer.

Et tu, Ciarán?

We didn't even mention Natalie Dormer, but she's clearly the star of the whole series. 

S-T-A-U-N-C-H

This week we continued our sampler platter of period piece TV shows with the 2010 reboot of Upstairs/Downstairs. 

SEE-UWD BIDS

This week we're kicking off a sampler platter miniseries, in which we watch the first episode or two of a period piece television show to give you a little taste of what they're about. We started with Hulu's Harlots, starring Samantha Morton and Lesley Manville as dueling brothel proprietors. 

Content warning: this show is about prostitution in the 18th century, so there is a lot of sexual abuse and assault depicted. It's definitely not for everyone, and that's ok. 

Eww, a banana? Really?

An Education was our introduction to the luminous Carey Mulligan, wherein she played 17-year-old francophile Jenny Mellor in early-1960s suburban London. We relate to this character as a (less sheltered, more taken-advantage-of) version of our younger selves, who were similarly pretentious and culturally-obsessed. This is a (more or less) easy-breezy 100 minutes, and definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it recently.