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Television

If you want to avoid intrusive anachronisms on TV, you have to go foreign

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

2 April 2022

9:00 AM

Funeral for a Dog

Sky Atlantic

The iron law of TV these days is that if you want to avoid series that are suffocatingly right-on the only way to go is foreign. Any TV emanating from the Anglosphere is guaranteed to be chock-full of intrusive anachronisms. Bridgerton,which reinvents Regency England as a melting pot of diversity, is an extreme example of this, but even previously immune series have been infected.

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