Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Excellent, a Must See

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

There is much to say about this show. This program is a unsung hallmark of the Comedy Central Line up and deserves high praise. While being bold, brash and screamingly hilarious, it is also rife with nuances, parodies and perspectives into life in 1903. Taking a moment to remark on the remarkable characters. From the Ludricuously lewd and quick witted Lillian, the bizarre tragedy of her twin siblings, or the combat with addiction and an uppity brothel born servant faced by Dodo, their mother, this show has characters that will leave you smirking and interested. Comedies can easily allow their characters to loose identity in the name of a joke (family guy, anyone? ), however Another period maintains a constant silliness wilhile keeping a certain level of character depth. The stage value of the production is on Par with the shows it tries to parody. Despite some occasional greenscreening, Another period has convincing costumage, sets, props and subtlties that contain a wealth of esoteric, interesting history. The unique parody mixed with the realism makes for a brilliant combo.The writing is bar none fantastic, and the actors equally so. The charm, the sass and the phenomenal wit leave one laughing all day long. Your coworkers will ask you, why are you laughing so much ? This will be why.This show does a remarkable job poking fun at and the juxtaposition of modern life compared to that of 115 years ago. Really, I'm flabbergasted this is not more popular. Tell your friends about this fine piece of programming!

So, I'll start off with the pluses. It's actually a period soap. Each character is well developed. Many of the jokes are built up in previous episodes, so there isn't much discontinuity.The story is about a rich family living with their servants in a mansion. Unlike in other period movies, the servants are treated as subhumans, in a way that reminds me of Mary Antoinette and her "Let them eat cake!" comment. Lots of jokes are derived from this class distinction. The thing I love most about this series is that they joke about many taboo subjects: rape, incest, child and spouse abuse, class, racism, animal violence, homosexuality, religion, abortion and American icons like Eleanor Roosenvelt and Mark Twain.Unfortunately, they felt like exaggerating with the sex and bodily fluids jokes, which is probably necessary to attract the dumb audience.

I've watched a few episodes so far and it's hilarious. It's the same sort of over-the-top, don't-take-it-too-serious sort of humour as The Office was. I mean, it's Victorian era setting with Snoop Dogg intro music.The characters and dialogue are really funny, and just how they make such fun out of what those times must have been like - even though when looking at it, there's a stark reality that reminds you, some of what you're seeing WAS really how it was.It's a show about gossiping girls and the comings and goings of their home. I'm a guy and usually HATE those stupid reality housewife and kardashians and all that. But I find the script so funny and the girls so dumb, that I love it. Actually, I like it more than my girlfriend so far, which is weird.Oh well.

Featuring broad comedy reminiscent of Monty Python, in part because it's a period piece, "Another Period" is about the Bellacourt family--one of the obscenely rich families that populated the cliffs of Newport, R.I. at the turn of the century, when Victorian values collided with entitlement and self-indulgence.Lillian and Beatrice are the daughters--two self-obsessed ninnies who care only for social status and pampering themselves, like the Hilton sisters might be if they had money. The third daughter is Hortense, a broad-faced spinster who the other sisters enjoy ridiculing.Mr. Peepers (Michael Ian Black) is the major domo who enforces the arbitrary and demeaning rules of the household over the myriad of servants.In the pilot, the house receives a new maid, Celine (Christina Hendricks), who is promptly given the new appellation "Chair". Given the amazing acting talents of Ms. Hendricks, I think we can expect some laughs. Given her charms, I think we can expect some members of the household to take up upholstery.Helen Keller even visits the mansion for a soiree that devolves into a catfight and knock-knock jokes. Like I said, broad humor.All of the characters are caricatures and this can be a funny show as long as the writers allow the humor to arise from the silly characters without political correctness.Update 7/5/16: This show has been reliably funny and it has not flagged in its efforts to lampoon without any PC qualms. I am increasing my grade to "9".