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Did they have Instagram in the 17th century?


One thing I didn't get. Hannah was an ordinary woman who wore ordinary clothes and had nothing distinguishing about her. Yet seemingly wherever she went people recognized her and tried to apprehend her. And this was in a city the size of London, and in the middle of the Great Fire at that. No one seemed to be putting up Wanted posters with an artist's drawing of her (as if there had been time), so how exactly was it that she was recognized?

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Good point, I noticed this also. Even if somehow all of the populace were told about a woman by word of mouth (which is highly doubtful, when as you say, people were more worried about the fire itself); how would they have ever recognized her to be the woman in question.

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"Look for a grubbied-up woman too beautiful for the 17th century..."

And what about Andrew Buchan (Thomas)? He looked like he stepped right off the set of Broadchurch, slapped some mud on his face, and into the streets of old London.

Too bad so much money was spent on such a dud. Producers missed an opportunity to tell an interesting story which turned out to be nothing more than a very bad costume drama.

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