I admit it — I’ve never been able to watch the original series, as I have a hard time getting past bad 1970s videography. So color me thrilled that the BBC has come out with a new season, set in the 1930s and starring Keeley Hawes as the lady of the house, Eileen Atkins as her mother in law, with Jean Marsh reprising her role from the earlier seasons as the housekeeper. This series goes very interestingly into pre-WWII English fascism. The costumes are, of course, beautiful… and the art deco set design is just fabulous!
Just realized after picking around on the internet that Claire Foy is in this, as the flibbertigibbet flapper relation with a Nazi fixation (that’s her in red on the piano…. not very Elizabeth Windsor-y of her).