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Are period dramas being RUINED by cosmetic surgery? Viewers of 10 Pound Poms and Bridgerton say they're 'struggling to enjoy the series' and are 'distracted' by obvious modern day beauty - like fillers and microblading
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 3, 2023 | Lydia Hawken

Posted on 06/03/2023 9:55:56 AM PDT by C19fan

By their very nature, period dramas are supposed to transport viewers to a different time realm.

But while the genre has sky-rocketed in popularity of late, there's one aspect of the dramas that appear to be keeping them firmly grounded in the 21st Century: the casts' cosmetically enhanced faces.

Earlier this month, the new series 10 Pound Poms - starring Michelle Keegan and Faye Marsay - started airing on BBC One.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dramas; looks; period
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To: TexasGator

Nope, DVD is lowly SD.

SD = 480p

HD = 720p

FHD = 1280p

UHD = 2160p


21 posted on 06/03/2023 10:35:45 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: TexasGator

Yup,a few months ago I picked up an excellent LG OLED. Watching those BBC nature videos discs (yo which I’m addicted) the giraffes are actually in the living room with you.


22 posted on 06/03/2023 10:36:12 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: dfwgator

Thinking you are neglecting the possability of narcisistic, woke actor AI s becoming vapid yet hyper effective and near omnicient celebrity activists - ie Hell on Earth


23 posted on 06/03/2023 10:37:52 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: TexasGator

BTW...”viable” should have been “visible”.


24 posted on 06/03/2023 10:37:55 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: BenLurkin

That could explain it ... there’s a definite Area 51 or Roswell vibe.


25 posted on 06/03/2023 10:38:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Toda la creacion pregona la grandeza del Senor.)
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To: C19fan

It’s almost impossible to recreate a truly authentic period piece. Comparing old movies and videos with recent ones demonstrates this. One value of old movies is seeing how things actually were.


26 posted on 06/03/2023 10:38:42 AM PDT by Savage Beast (We have a choice: darkness and decadence or light and ascendancy. You deserve what you choose.)
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To: C19fan

Back in the sixties when they did ww2 movies they made no effort AT ALL in the matter of hair and clothes, in most movies.


27 posted on 06/03/2023 10:38:45 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Savage Beast

They should mostly have bad teeth, no makeup, and hairy legs and underarms.

Nope, they are all quite 21st century groomed!!


28 posted on 06/03/2023 10:42:17 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: C19fan

It’s not just the hair and makeup.

The writing is far worse.

Thank God for books and/or DVDs.


29 posted on 06/03/2023 10:43:58 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Savage Beast

Outlander does a good job at authentic.

Unfortunately they stopped caring about what book fans wanted.

The writing is why I gave up on the series.

The books are fantastic.


30 posted on 06/03/2023 10:45:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: BenLurkin
Pretty sure she is a human-alien hybrid.


Not quite, but close.



31 posted on 06/03/2023 10:59:08 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Savage Beast
I like old westerns like 'The Big Trail' with 23-year-old John Wayne in his first leading man role, the wagon train really has the look of authenticity.

"Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West."


32 posted on 06/03/2023 11:06:04 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: C19fan

I thought this article was about menstruation. The question was it in men or women.


33 posted on 06/03/2023 11:09:23 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo

34 posted on 06/03/2023 11:13:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan
I felt the same way about Vivien Leigh's 1940s hairstyle in Gone with the Wind:

Her hair was puffed back at the upper temples, like all the WW2 calendar girls. And it was shampooed. Most of the daguerrotype photos of the actual Civil War era show the women's hair slicked down from the center part to cover the ears, either by natural oils because shampooing was seldom (and did not use modern softeners or emollients), or by pomades to disguise the rank smell of hair unwashed throughout the winter months.

Viv has had her eyebrows plucked, and is wearing foundation, blusher, eye shadow, brow liner, eyeliner, mascara and lipstick.

35 posted on 06/03/2023 11:17:16 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: C19fan

Think of old films with 60 year old sheriffs with 20 year old beautiful wives.


36 posted on 06/03/2023 11:17:42 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Tax-chick

She was wonderful in Emma and The Queen’s Gambit.


37 posted on 06/03/2023 11:18:43 AM PDT by Tea Drinker (Live From Sunny Tucson)
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To: C19fan

For a lot of actresses, period pieces are all they can do, because the clothing from that era will cover up all the Tats they have.


38 posted on 06/03/2023 11:23:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

“microblading”??

I am so out of touch with culture some things are just gibberish.


39 posted on 06/03/2023 11:28:00 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: C19fan

It’s getting worse now that ‘male’ actors are allowed to have ‘period pieces’.


40 posted on 06/03/2023 11:42:47 AM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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