I could have sworn I commented on this review earlier, oops! I enjoyed this mini a lot too. It felt like an old school, fluffy sort of drama that satisfied a certain craving of mine. I haven't read the book, but I felt like the miniseries was well paced. It could have used maybe one more episode but it didn't feel too rushed for me. Perhaps if I had read the book like you I would feel differently!
I honestly really loved seeing costumes from this era but I agree the flowers were too much! The first scene I was like, "Ooh, these are pretty!" and then the next scene I was like, "OK, why are they wearing flower crowns in the middle of the day like this?" and eventually they just got boring. I really wish other period dramas did more with hairstyles like that but unfortunately they used the flowers way too much. The dresses also seemed kinda short to me.
Thank you for the link to that post! It was super amusing and also introduced me to a fun blog! :D
When I wrote the review I was still quite early in the book, now I'm almost at the end and I feel the adaptation is better than I wrote before. Really, the book is overly long, so I think Fellowes did rather well overall. I'll probably rectify it when I write up the review of the book ;-)
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I honestly really loved seeing costumes from this era but I agree the flowers were too much! The first scene I was like, "Ooh, these are pretty!" and then the next scene I was like, "OK, why are they wearing flower crowns in the middle of the day like this?" and eventually they just got boring. I really wish other period dramas did more with hairstyles like that but unfortunately they used the flowers way too much. The dresses also seemed kinda short to me.
Thank you for the link to that post! It was super amusing and also introduced me to a fun blog! :D
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