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Like Harlots should feel more like Call The Midwife and way way less like Sons of Anarchy, cause like honestly EXTREME DRAMA all the time isn’t the way the industry works and I’d be really happy with like mild human drama, and like entertaining clients, and maybe one extreme thing at a time, because it doesn’t fit the subject matter to have it be like “OH SHIT EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE” constantly.

And honestly I think it’s somewhat whorephobic that we can’t have a slice of life drama about 18th century sex workers, and not have everything be all terrible all the time, and like all Johns are sadistic monsters and shit because THAT’S NOT FUCKING TRUE also Quiggly running her brothel in her like over the top sadistic fashion feels unrealistic, like essentially indebted to the company store and frequently locked in, sure, but like if you’re running a high end operation, your workers aren’t going to put on a good performance if you’re terrorizing them all the time.

Harlots

Harlots has officially jumped the shark in terms of believability.

Like I could believe one or maaaaybe two of these storylines at once but like… 

(spoilers and TW: Rape and murder and racism under the cut)

But like the fuck-murder group, the scary dude being switched out for lord rapist and then lord rapist getting fucking murdered all of a sudden, the Christian crusader lady’s secret past, Satan McMonster being so unbelievably awful to his stepmother (which like I’d believe but it’s like past the point of like even moderate self-interest and he’s just so obsessive in his hatred, which combined with Quiggly having such intense, irrational hatred AND Lord Rapist being all about intense irrational hatred, it just feels like they’re using that to move the plot forward a bit too much), and like fucking the butler for why?  And just like you could do like two of these things, but all of them together feels a bit y’ know?  Weird.

and if seeing part of a boob short circuits your brain to the point where you can’t actually think about what someone is saying or treat them with the most basic forms of human decency?  You’re on a par with a fucking poorly trained dog when it comes to self-control.