[C19fan]

One of the worst example of a modern look infecting a period drama was the 2007 adaptation of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park". For some reason, Billie Piper was cast as Fanny Price. She looked so out of place with her highlighted hair.

[Dr. Sivana]

Makeup and hair in both the 50s and 70s present a similar problem. Some get it right (High Noon), some hilariously wrong (The Conqueror).

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Most period dramas set before automobiles don’t have nearly enough horse dung in the streets.

[Gay State Conservative]

My nephew is a film school graduate who *hates* HD. He hates it because it reveals imperfections that weren't viable with DVD,VHS etc.

[dfwgator]

Also the actresses with all the tattoos.

[Irenic]

They’re all starting to look alike and many of the faces/body shapes are quite freaky.

[BenLurkin]

That’s one of the nice things about growing old.

You don;t have to put up with the period drama.

[Angelino97]

Period dramas are ruined by unrealistic casting (e.g., casting an African woman to play Anne Bolyen, Henry VIII’s wife, as one recent BBC drama did).

[dfwgator]

AI will take care of all this. Soon we won’t need actors, actresses or any other vapid celebrities, praise God.

[Tax-chick]

Anya Taylor-Joy is just plain weird looking.

[newzjunkey]

If they are noticing these details what’s happening on the screen isn’t very compelling. Where’s the suspension of disbelief?

[CodeToad]

The more actors and producers make thigs look fake, the more people will accept computer generated actors. We have the technology right now to displace actors completely. There have been videos produced where people cannot tell the difference and often pick the computer generated actors as the real actors.

[Savage Beast]

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.

[TalBlack]

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.

[mewzilla]

It’s not just the hair and makeup.

The writing is far worse.

Thank God for books and/or DVDs.

[gitmo]

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

[Albion Wilde]

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.

[alternatives?]

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

[dfwgator]

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.

[doorgunner69]

“microblading”??

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

[Kartographer]

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