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It is a truth universally acknowledged that we are a nation obsessed with menstruum dramas.
And with every one packed with ballsy romance, feisty women, brooding men, rib-crushing corsets, battles, ballrooms and lavish sets, it's no wonder.
Every time one comes forth, nosotros lap it up quicker than you can say 'upstairs, downstairs', and then we feel utterly bereft when it ends.
Monday sees the start of the 2d series of Sanditon on BritBox, with the much-awaited return of Bridgerton on Netflix on March 25.
And with The Golden Age attracting millions of viewers, our love for the genre is clearly going nowhere.
As Downton's Dowager one time said, "Zippo succeeds like excess!" But which actually are the best?
We bring you our top ten corset-cadre dramas, comparing everything from the sets and costumes to the villains and matriarchs. Bonnets up…
Downton Abbey, BritBox
Plot: The aristocratic Crawley family, living in Yorkshire in the early 1900s, agonise over heirs and marriages and coin, while their servants plot and demolition and forge their ain romantic connections. It'due south all soapy and scandalous.
Heroes and villains: Dowager Countess of Grantham (Maggie Smith) is joyfully scathing. Miss O'Brien (Siobhan Finneran) is the evil lady'due south maid. Heroes? Probably just the canis familiaris.
Sets and costumes: Highclere Castle is now a tourist destination, say no more. The women'due south outfits navigate the trends of the era - from Sybil's harem pants to Mary'due south wedding gown, it's been a journey.
Bodice-ripper moment: Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) sneaking into bed with a handsome Turkish diplomat. Shame he ended up dead.
Best bit: Matthew's proposal to Lady Mary in the snow. Mr Carson proposing to Mrs Hughes comes a shut second.
Worst flake: Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) dying in childbirth. Why, just why?!
Bridgerton, Netflix
Plot: From US showrunner Shonda Rhimes, this is set in the competitive world of Regency era London, when debutantes are presented at court and it'southward elbows out for the best husband. Julie Andrews voices the always-scandalous newsletter columnist known as Lady Whistledown - she knows all the gossip.
Heroes and villains: Villains include the scathing Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) and a host of snobby mothers. Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) is our hero, in love with Simon, The Duke of Hastings (Rege-Jean Folio).
Sets and costumes: Many k estates were used in filming, including Wilton House, Castle Howard, Hampton Court Palace and Somerset Firm. Costuming involved 200 people to create 5,000 costumes.
Bodice-ripper moment: How to choose? Simon and Daphne doing it on a desk, on their hymeneals nighttime, on the stairs, basically everywhere…
Best fleck: The diverse casting, including Queen Charlotte with mixed race heritage.
Worst bit: Yous absolutely cannot watch this with your parents.
The Gilded Historic period, Sky Atlantic
Plot: It'due south 1880s New York and the old money clashes with new coin. The series follows penniless Marian (Louisa Jacobson), who lives with her aunts Agnes (Christine Baranski) and Ada (Cynthia Nixon) on the Upper Due east side while the servants disharmonism downstairs.
Heroes and villains: Agnes van Rhijn is the brilliantly cut, stubborn old socialite who could give the Dowager a run for her money. Lady's maid Bertha (Kelley Curran) has a mean streak. Heroes to root for include Marian and her friend Peggy (Denee Benton), an African-American writer contesting racial partition.
Sets and costumes: Information technology's not called The Gilded Age for goose egg - stunning boondocks houses, elaborate costumes and a large budget production make this a glossier, Us Downton.
Bodice-ripper moment: More than stolen kisses than raunchy sex scenes.
Best scrap: Every time Marian tells her spiky aunt Agnes that she's wrong - which is a lot.
Worst bit: Bertha'due south gratuitous nude scene - there was no need.
Pride And Prejudice, Disney+
Plot: The iconic 1995 BBC accommodation follows the extremely slow-burn romance between Mr Darcy (Colin Firth) and Elizabeth Bennet (Jennifer Ehle). There'due south enough of comedy too, with misunderstandings, hen-pecking mothers (Alison Steadman is a dream) and much loftier society plotting.
Heroes and villains: Darcy is the e'er-and then awkward and emotionally-repressed British hero, while potential suitor Mr Collins (David Bamber) makes your skin crawl.
Sets and costumes: Earthy-toned costumes gave the Bennet girls innocence and simplicity, this is less lavish than other period dramas. But Darcy'southward Pemberley estate (Lyme Park in Cheshire) lends an imposing grandeur.
Bodice-ripper moment: Darcy emerging from the lake in a soaking wet shirt. Pass the smelling salts.
Best bit: That steamy lake scene evidently - awkward, romantic, perfect.
Worst bit: Mr Wickham's sideburns. No match for Darcy's.
Upstairs Downstairs, BritBox
Plot: The 1970s ITV series follows the lives and fortunes of the Bellamy family and their below-stairs servant staff at 165 Eaton Place. Fix from 1903-1930, it plays out against the backdrop of posh Edwardian London, covering women'southward suffrage, World War One and the Roaring Twenties.
Heroes and villains: Unlike the scheming of Downton and The Gold Age, this doesn't have total-on baddies, simply the occasional rogue. Pauline Collins was a scene-stealer as sassy firm maid Sarah Moffat.
Sets and costumes: I of the first major colour productions made by LWT, sets and costumes were low-upkeep compared to modern dramas, mostly shooting in a studio, but still classy.
Bodice-ripper moment: How very dare you!
Best fleck: It's legacy. Information technology'due south the original costume soap opera, watched by millions and condign an institution.
Worst bit: The 2010 sequel, which didn't take the same touch.
Gentleman Jack, BBC iPlayer
Plot: Suranne Jones plays Anne Lister, a lady landowner (imagine!) in 1800s Yorkshire, who embarks on a unsafe romance with another woman. She keeps a cryptic diary that no one tin decode. And it'southward all based on a true story.
Heroes and villains: Anne, the proud 19th century lesbian landowner, is the hero of the slice, while all the local gossips are the bad guys.
Sets and costumes: Suranne stalks about in a top lid and frock coat, looking a care for in cool, rebel 19th century fashion. Sets are lower-fundamental, but with stunning Yorkshire countryside.
Bodice-ripper moment: A particularly intense kiss later on Ann's (Sophie Rundle) romantic 19th century lesbian proposal to Anne.
Best fleck: Every time Anne breaks the fourth wall and gives a monologue. So very Fleabag.
Worst flake: Cameos from the likes of Katherine Kelly and Sofie Grabol are all as well brief.
Cranford, BritBox
Plot: Comedy drama set in the fictional village of Cranford in Cheshire in the 1840s, the story focuses on the single and widowed middle class women in the boondocks. Spinsters with a lot to say and much to gossip well-nigh.
Heroes and villains: Mrs Jamieson (Barbara Flynn) displays some nasty and vicious snobbery, just mostly everyone is good-hearted and worthy.
Sets and costumes: Lots of bonnets and bustles, but zilch too glitzy or colourful. As for the sets, think cobbled streets and village scenes.
Bodice-ripper moment: Hardly. A human being and a woman lying in bed, fully clothed, is nigh equally raunchy as information technology gets.
Best scrap: The power of the matriarchs, and a wish-listing cast including Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Julia Sawalha, Francesca Annis, Lesley Manville and Julia McKenzie.
Worst bit: Occasionally a bit bonkers - please run into a cat eating lace, an orange-sucking drama and a vanishing cow.
Sanditon, ITV Hub / Britbox
Plot: Based on Jane Austen's final, unfinished novel, this stars Rose Williams as Charlotte, a young, naive woman navigating life and dear in the newly-developed seaside resort of Sanditon during the Regency period. She immediately clashes with the wild - and therefore totally attractive - Sidney (Theo James).
Heroes and villains: Charlotte and Sidney are our heroes and we're rooting for them to get together throughout. The villain is Sir Edward Denham (Jack Fox), who shouldn't be trusted.
Sets and costumes: Non as big-budget equally Downton or The Gilded Age. Gorgeous seaside shots and conventional corsets.
Bodice-ripper moment: Edward and Clara enjoying a racy romp on a marble floor. Viewers were worried almost bruises.
Best bit: Anne Reid equally the formidable grande matriarch of the piece, presiding over her fortune and coin-grabbing family.
Worst chip: The incest storyline. Jane Austen would be turning in her grave.
War & Peace, Prime Video
Plot: There's nothing like a Napoleonic war to get the pulses racing. Tolstoy's sweeping Russian melodrama, adapted for the BBC in 2016, stars Lily James and James Norton. With themes of honey, course, ability and war, this is a lavish archetype.
Heroes and villains: Prince Andrei (Norton) is a proper hero, brave, noble and brooding. Many, many villains include Anatole (Callum Turner) and his begetter Prince Kuragin (Stephen Rea) - just loathsome.
Sets and costumes: Filmed in Russia, Republic of lithuania and Republic of latvia, this has an epic feel with an original score, glittering palaces and sumptuous costumes.
Bodice-ripper moment: Plenty of sex scenes between Andrei and Natasha (Lily James). Lily said: "Some people have called it Phwoar and Peace".
Best scrap: James Norton, enough said.
Worst bit: It sometimes feels like it's racing through the story - but the novel is over one,200 pages long, so nosotros'll forgive it.
Vanity Fair, Prime number Video
Plot: Based on the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, it centres on Becky Sharp (Olivia Cooke), a contemptuous social climber who uses her charms to fascinate and seduce upper-class men.
Heroes and villains: Obsessed with status and wealth, Becky is a flake of a sociopath, conveying out bad deeds to raise herself to the higher echelons of society. Among the vaguely decent characters are Becky's friend Amelia (Claudia Jessie). Pretty much anybody else is awful.
Sets and costumes: Filming took place at more than 30 locations across England, including London's Fitzroy Square and Lancaster Business firm, and in Hungary's capital Budapest. Costumes are colourful and fun, with lots of bonnets, corsets, feathers and glorious wigs.
Bodice-ripper moment: A passionate smooch between Becky and love interest Rawdon (Tom Bateman).
Best flake: The mod soundtrack with pop music.
Worst fleck: A CGI background of London won criticism.
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Source: https://www.irishmirror.ie/tv/tvs-top-10-period-dramas-26478098
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