{"id":63130,"date":"2015-02-11T19:10:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63130"},"modified":"2015-02-12T14:37:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T22:37:16","slug":"the-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63130","title":{"rendered":"The Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched season one of the BBC series <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Paradise_%28TV_series%29\">The Paradise<\/a> on Netflix. It is set in 1875 and it is excellent. <\/p>\n<p>SPOILER ALERT: Season two, however, went off the rails with an absurd feminist plotline. The female protagonist, Denise Lovett, breaks up with her fiance when he calls her his &#8220;most prized possession.&#8221; She objects to being called his possession and ends their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>What sane woman would do such a thing today let alone in 1876?<\/p>\n<p>In the final episode, he wins the department store in a dice game and gives it to her and walks away. She goes off and gets a male investor so she can open her own beauty shop instead. She then tells her ex-fiance, when I make my name and my fortune, will you marry me?<\/p>\n<p>What sane woman would do such a thing today let alone in 1876?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a ridiculous plotline of a black photographer who&#8217;s portrayed as all-wise and all-knowing. He has a fling with a white shopgirl. There were very few blacks in 19th Century England and they weren&#8217;t operating their independent photography businesses and romancing white women. In this TV show, the characters pay no attention to the guy&#8217;s blackness and he&#8217;s black as sin. In real life England up through the 1970s, the presence of a black man was a very big deal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched season one of the BBC series The Paradise on Netflix. It is set in 1875 and it is excellent. SPOILER ALERT: Season two, however, went off the rails with an absurd feminist plotline. The female protagonist, Denise Lovett, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63198,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63130\/revisions\/63198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}