For the fail.

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"This is the problem with so many costume dramas: Unless they're jazzed up with anachronistic touches, they can come off as stiff and stuffed, partly because the formality of old-fashioned language seems so strange to modern ears."

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/09/19/duchess/index.html

Really??? The only way to make costume drama compelling is by using anachronism? Maybe this explains why so many costume dramas are so bad: a failure to even try to recreate the past.