Ernest P Shackleton
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I hear ya. Unfortunately, they didn't give a lot of effort to recreate the physical world of the period. I assume that was to curb production costs...on top of it being a difficult task, which is why I think these shows often concentrate on the hard labor and small, significant, daily practices of the day (like when they used smoke to keep bugs at bay while expanding through the prairies). VSH spent a lot of the time talking to the participants about their opinions, or at least it seemed like they did to me. But now that I'm thinking about it again, I suppose if nobody could find work, then they couldn't really show these people working all the time. And because they were destitute and in an urban environment, resources were few. You end up eating bread & butter and sitting around a lot. Not a whole lot there for an audience to watch. Bottom line is that I enjoyed it well enough, but I would put it at the bottom of a list of this type of projects.I've only seen one episode so far, but as with all these type of shows ("The Manor House," "1940s House"), the "narrative" of the people is so constructed and distorted, that I all but ignore it and just try to enjoy the physical recreation of history - the houses, tools, machines, architecture, structures, etc.