She's allowed to behave badly in her personal life, but overall she is an amazing person and stuff in Victorian England is way better than you would expect even though they dutifully remind us of the Poor and the Class System when they feel like it (it's as embarrassing as when Downton did it, but at least they were mostly all made up). The thing is, S1 was Victoria ascends the throne as a sort of candyfloss feminist fairy tale which does kind of work, but the moment they finished with an announcement that there would be a S2, I went OH NO, and have been doing so ever since, while still watching because it is so pretty and well-made and candyflossy.
But last time they did a terrible 2 parter on the Chartists and then skipped the 1848-9 Cholera epidemic (which meant that 1 of Victoria's staff died in a freak incident with the Broad Street Pump from the 1855 cholera epidemic), most of the PMs are sexier than in real life (entertaining, though) and following his success at the 1851 Great Exhibition, Albert has collapsed and this stage I have no idea whether this is a random cliffhanger or they've just killed off Albert 10 years early.
It is very pretty and Jenna Coleman is brilliant, though. But be prepared for sort of clueless social justice imposed on a candyfloss Victorian London plus any given massacre or epidemics having 1000s more survive than in rl. They just want to make it a Woman Succeeding Against the Men! And history is just really awkward about that kind of thing, really.
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But last time they did a terrible 2 parter on the Chartists and then skipped the 1848-9 Cholera epidemic (which meant that 1 of Victoria's staff died in a freak incident with the Broad Street Pump from the 1855 cholera epidemic), most of the PMs are sexier than in real life (entertaining, though) and following his success at the 1851 Great Exhibition, Albert has collapsed and this stage I have no idea whether this is a random cliffhanger or they've just killed off Albert 10 years early.
It is very pretty and Jenna Coleman is brilliant, though. But be prepared for sort of clueless social justice imposed on a candyfloss Victorian London plus any given massacre or epidemics having 1000s more survive than in rl. They just want to make it a Woman Succeeding Against the Men! And history is just really awkward about that kind of thing, really.