The Guide #143: Welcome to the era of TVβs Anachronistically Audacious Historical Heroine
In this weekβs newsletter: My Lady Jane is the latest in a subgenre of fun, raucous and yet slightly patronising reimaginings of revolutionary women from the past
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βEveryone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn,β declares celebrity author Eli Cash, resplendent in a white Stetson as he walks and talks about his latest novel to a hungry press pack. βWhat this book presupposes is β¦ maybe he didnβt?β
Recently, this line from Wes Andersonβs iconic family saga The Royal Tenenbaums β delivered with impeccably weird comic timing by Owen Wilson β has been popping into my head on a regular basis. At first, I couldnβt work out why. Then I realised: Cashβs insouciant elevator pitch for his fantastical history might as well be the template for an increasingly ubiquitous type of TV series.
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