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Did you watch Downtown Abbey or Upstairs Downstairs? That is the genre. They are all tame, focused on human interactions built on social structure.   It all boils down to do you like the story being told, who is going to be sacked, or snubbed next week?   Mrs Russell wants desperately to be accepted  into NYC High Society with at least two violent, emotional outbursts in private of course, while in public, she acts as if she does not care.

Now personally I would have preferred for this to be on something like PBS Masterpiece Theater, but since I am already subscribed to HBO from a practicality standpoint, makes no difference to me.

In the long shots, you can see the ceilings in the rooms of the Russell mansion, and they look both incredible and CGI’d. I don’t see the producers actually building those,