01. How will the Stock Market Crash of 1929 affect P. Fisher's lifestyle?
02. The Great Depression, that followed, affected the world.
03. Any thoughts for the writers?
04. I'd like the show to continue, but perhaps with a new twist due to world events.
Depends if her money is invested in the stock market and bonds. It probably was. But if she had cash or maybe real estate, maybe she would have gotten along but had to budget.
She probably would have volunteered at soup kitchens and the like.
Maybe she would get a job as a detective or something interesting like that. But she still would have been wearing all her beautiful clothes and hats.
I've been wondering the same thing. The last book so far takes place in early 1929.
She was poor as a child, until her father unexpectedly became a Baron.
Her money is separate from her parents. They cut off her funds in an attempt to get her to come home and "take her place in society" when she stayed in Paris after the war.
She got a small pension from the French government in gratitude for her service during the war as an ambulance driver, which she supplemented working as an artist's model.
When she turned 21, she got some money in her own right from some female relative.
According to passing mentions in the books, she is a good businesswoman. She has diversified her holdings. She has invested in some stocks and bonds, but also in real estate and businesses of many different types, including farms.
She'll probably have a drop in income but I don't think she'll be totally clueless on how to economize when necessary.
The books all take place prior to the SMC. The author has stated she doesn't want to explore Phryne in that era. Whether the show tackles that, who knows? It would be interesting but it's doubtful the show continues after the movie and an as of yet unannounced 4th season.
shareI agree with this 100%. I believe I read somewhere that Kerry Greenwood said she had no desire to see "Miss Fisher" continue beyond 1932 - or was it the show's producers who said that? It was in an artcle/link I just read somewhere on this board earlier this evening. At any rate, they've managed to keep all three seasons of the show - 30-plus episodes - in 1928-1929 so far, the calendar notwithstanding.
I don't think it would befit the show's style to explore the Depression. It's all about the Swinging '20s, and how an affluent, independent woman makes her way through that decade in the clubs and jazz bars ... it wouldn't be very exciting to watch her worrying about her bank account, letting employees go, and solving murders over the theft of bread and chickens in front of a background of soup kitchens and unemployment lines, would it? Even if a Series 4 does happen, I can't see the producers going in that direction. It's an interesting proposition, but it's not the show the viewers want to see.
It sure would save on the wardrobe budget, though, wouldn't it? ๎
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