Speech Anachronisms
This is a minor thing, but one of the characters - I think it was Samuel Grant - used the term "OK". This term didn't become part of general use in America until the 1830's
shareMaybe it started with him? ?
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Good point.
I like Grace Emberly quoting Nietzsche ("that which doesn't kill me.....") when he didn't make that quote until almost 100 years later. And they like the word "paranoid," which doesn't enter the English language until the 1900s.
shareIn many respects, the characters are modern personalities transplanted into historical fiction, both in spoken idioms and behavioral mannerisms. The bit which sadly went full-CW was Mary doing her virgin seduction of Capt Johnson.
Otherwise in terms of attempting to look at the converging forces at play in that place during that period within the scope of a painstakingly authentic backdrop and limited budget, it's an engrossing and sometimes darkly disturbing show.
"I like to watch." Chauncey Gardiner, 'Being There'