Julian Fellowes' Belgravia - starts tonight, ITV1

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Anyone planning on watching? I loved Downton so I'm looking forward to this. It might be just the sort of escapist drama featuring posh people in nice frocks that we all need right now!

Oh thanks diddl oh she's a bit wayward isn't she? Does she live with the Trenchards? No children then?

I think that they live with the Trenchards yes & it's just the two of them.

I can't wait for John to have the smirk wiped off his face.

Bugger it's six episodes not four.

I’m loving the scenery and costumes but I’m not really enjoying it.

Yes I agree Oaks.

Some of it's very dull. But I love the double act of Tom Wilkinson and James Fleet, Upright Brockenhurst brother and Feckless Gambling Clergyman Brockenhurst brother. Their sniping at each other had me giggling

Oh and running or walking up and down the stairs (or sitting room, hall etc.) will help !!! Make it a game\contest with the children.

DUH silly me !!! That post was for the weight watch thread !!!!

I wonder if Susan will find she's pregnant. Even though she said there will be no children it could be her husband who has the fertility problem.

Troys Of course she will it's a drama ain't it? They,ve got to get their pint of blood out of all the plots haven't they? She said cynically

I quite like it. Very predictable at times.

What a nasty git taking his mother's silver though.

I am disappointed. It seems like so many other period pieces i have seen over the years but I am not enjoying this as much. Might be my lack receptiveness is more to do with what is happening now than anything else.

It might be a 'costume' drama but IMO it makes no difference it's either good or not so good, I think it's not so good.

Most of the dramas now are fairly meh They are soo violent and sexually exploitative, if they don't have those 2 ingredients then it seems that the producers think that no one will watch them. I call it the "Let's copy Game of Thrones" syndrome.

It's so dull and predictable!

Yes to the dull & predictable. But it shouldn’t be with a fairly strong cast. It’s also fairly clunky. I’ve got ideas how’s it’s going to pan out but don’t want to spoil it. But -
It’s so obvious the DIL is going to be pregnant.

I'm enjoying it, bit of light relief at the moment, hope it all ties up nicely and I can say aaah that was nice. Really don't like the style of the dresses, they look incredibly difficult to do anything in, although I suppose women didn't do much.

The way the Alice Eve character was so certain that there would be no baby, I surmised they weren’t having any sex. I can’t imagine medical science being able to work out whose reproductive organs aren’t working. She might have lied about going to lots of doctors about it. Oliver might be gay. So then, when she gets pregnant, he’d know she’d been playing away.

Mizu If Belgravia had been set 10 years later they would ]'ve been wearing crinolines!!! Much wider skirts like lampshades!! They did at least have to wear less petticoats, because they were whalebone cages, extremely heavy and they had to go through doorways sideways!!!

It certainly makes me happy to have been born and living in the last century and this one!!!! Can you imagine how shocked the Victorians would have been to see women walking about outside in leggings!!!

Let alone shorts and belly tops!!!!

Gynaecology was already developing in Victorian times - the speculum and the vibrator were both inventions of the era!

Is Alice Eve Trevor Eve's daughter? (Yes I could google but this allows me to placemark).

Side fact (apologies if mentioned upthread) that the mum and dad from Friday Night dinner are on this - upstairs and downstairs.

Yes, she is, Lizzie.

It's all being spelled out, isn't it?

"There will be no babies"...

Now starts having sex with another man!

Presumably she has been told or thinks it must be her "fault" that she's not become pregnant?

Yes the reference to 'rags' by the maid was interesting. I have always wondered how the women of those ages coped with their periods. There were no rubber backed knickers( I remember them from the 60s! they were horrible but much better than nothing!) no tampons or preformed plastic backed pads. The posh ladies could just lie on the sofa. But the maids must have had a terrible time having to work with the stains on their dresses and the period pains etc.

Women formed simple sanitary pads from rags, then they were either laundered or burned on the fire if heavily soiled. I think that they might have been held in place with a belt, as knickers weren’t a thing back then.