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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: NurdlyPeon

Now you know the real reason that his family fled. That whole part of the galaxy is becoming a ghetto.


61 posted on 06/03/2023 1:02:54 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servavevnts.)
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To: Tax-chick

Im willing to agree but only from the neck down.


62 posted on 06/03/2023 1:04:26 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servavevnts.)
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To: C19fan
I really enjoyed “Vikings” but it was somewhat distracting seeing the clear outlines of brassieres under some of the female’s costumes.

I’m sure those puppies were swinging freely in the Land of Ice and Snow.

63 posted on 06/03/2023 1:05:29 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: C19fan

No, they are being ruined by lousy acting, writing, and farcical accounts of history.


64 posted on 06/03/2023 1:12:11 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Retrofitted

Do you remember the title?


65 posted on 06/03/2023 1:15:15 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servavevnts.)
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To: Zuriel
Miss Kitty wore a LOT of makeup in Gunsmoke.

Well, that WAS part of her job, wasn't it?

66 posted on 06/03/2023 1:20:13 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: gnarledmaw

The title of the movie? Yeah. But it’s AWFUL! lol it’s an indie found footage, made by a guy and his family during the COVID lockdowns. It’s called “Caviar” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22306776/). The best part was hearing Hillary talk about human sacrifices (”new gods”) and AOC threatening a podcaster. lol


67 posted on 06/03/2023 1:22:43 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: MD Expat in PA

Those are interesting sites — thanks. Their photos demonstrate that Hollywood gets it wrong more often than not. In fact, Hollywood rarely gets it right with the women’s styles. Perhaps it’s Hollywood’s entrenched view that Americans are too stupid to deserve greater accuracy, historic or otherwise.

Up until recently, due to the recent innovations such as Botox and microblading, the BBC dramas seemed to do much better with historical costuming and hair.


68 posted on 06/03/2023 1:31:16 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: C19fan
One of the worst example of a modern look infecting a period drama

Actually, I would take the perfect and brilliant white teeth as an example. Peoples teeth in the past were terrible, and they lost a lot of teeth at (what I think we would consider) young ages.

69 posted on 06/03/2023 1:31:24 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I have 15 horses and can supply them daily to meet all their needs.

Now if I just knew who to contact in Hollywood...


70 posted on 06/03/2023 1:31:53 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Bernard
Or the Count of Basie?


71 posted on 06/03/2023 1:49:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Albion Wilde

Correct! I still don’t understand how they tolerated wearing corsets with all the pilings, the petticoat, the stockings, two chemise, etc. etc. and we haven’t even gotten yet to the beautiful dresses that were also layered. I can’t even imagine what they went through in hot and humid states. Go to Pinterest and see the beautiful garments they wore …I would not last one day in those garments here in our 100+ degree hot weather town. I would literally wilt …I need my refrigerated air. But back then women were women, who strived to look beautiful descent, and with a sense of great modesty.


72 posted on 06/03/2023 1:57:12 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Moltke

DVD is A storage system.

It just so happens to be used mainly for videos

Dvds can have videos in 4k on em.

Dvds also store music, operating systems and anything else you want.


73 posted on 06/03/2023 2:11:23 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Ron DeSantis. The latest GOPe champion in a long list of winners. Jeb! Mitt Romney, and John McStain)
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To: C19fan

I recall marvelling at the perfect teeth of most of the cast of 1883.


74 posted on 06/03/2023 2:19:12 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: Retrofitted

Thanks, Ill have to find it.

Some things are so bad that they somehow sneak around the other side to being good. All my life I liked those brown little wax and lard nuggets that they sell as impulse items at checkout lanes mislabeled as “brownies”. In the 90s there was a national brand that sold microwavable frozen chili dog burritos for eighteen cents and I would buy the whole case every time I saw them.

Movies can be like that. Laserblast and Gargoyles come to mind. Where I lived we had a show called TJ and the ANT that came on about 11PM and went to around 5AM. It was all night movies from the 30s up to what was then more recent, the grade of each decades movies becoming progressively worse chronologically. Sitting there alone at night, sometimes it seemed like it was my own personal box of larks vomit bonbons and crunchy frogs.

Yknow?

How can I pass that opportunity up?


75 posted on 06/03/2023 2:25:04 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servavevnts.)
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To: C19fan

sort of silly, should they only hire actors with wooden teeth to be real also?

LMAO


76 posted on 06/03/2023 2:51:40 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ansel12
I like old westerns also.

My favorite I think is Stagecoach. I like it very much, and also I'm a big Claire Trevor fan. Her best was Born To Kill, though, not a western.

I like Tim Holt's movies.

I also like some of the old silent movies. There are a couple of Tom Mix movies that are interesting. I also liked The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." And I saw an amusing silent movie the other night: Too Many Kisses.

77 posted on 06/03/2023 2:58:49 PM 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: RoseofTexas

they changed clothes up to 3 times a day as a partial way of addressing that.


78 posted on 06/03/2023 2:59:57 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: C19fan

During the Victorian era, rich ladies wore a heavy amount of powders and face creams…most of which were full of toxic metals.
Before that I imagined many persons faces had pox marks and boils.


79 posted on 06/03/2023 5:21:34 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: BenLurkin

Haha. I see what you did there.


80 posted on 06/03/2023 6:50:54 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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