What do you think of the quality on this show? I think they do an decent job except the hair & makeup. Almost all the women wear their hair down instead of up. The makeup is too bright & colorful. The sets are great though. It's just a bit jarring the modern hair/makeup against the great sets & even costumes.
shareThe long hairstyles on the women really seemed out of place. Not only that, but they looked as if curled with a curling iron, especially Elizabeth's Really annoying and took me out of the fantasy.
I love the show...but there is one thing that really bugs me. The ladies on the show have a lot of roots in their hair color. I notice it on several of them. The restaurant owner (Lori Loughlin) in the opening credits roots are terribly noticeable. Now i am not sure what time period this is supposed to be, and maybe this is naive of me, but did they use hair color in that time frame? It throws me every time I see it as inappropriate for that time era. Now when Elizabeth is in the city...I can almost believe it, but just not on the prairie scenes. Just my opinion. Hair and all the makeup doesn't "fit"! Too much makeup and for goodness sake...touch up the roots on the hair color so it doesn't look colored!
shareI am so disappointed with the second season of the show, it does not feel like a period piece at all anymore!
I was really looking forward to the 2nd season, as it was one of my fav 'guilty pleasure' shows, but now something is way off.
I can only assume that this weird modernization had been done on purpose so that viewers can relate more to the characters? If so, wrong move in my opinion.
The actresses are very pretty and they would still be so, wearing high collard blouses, hair-knots and hats. You can portray a strong woman, even if she is wearing a corset.
I only started watching the show because it was a period piece, I know it probably does not have a huge budget, but I was not expecting to see a production value like in Downton Abbey.
Come on it's supposed to be a former coal mining frontier town in the 1910's, where most of the women have lost their husbands and now are trying to survive, rebuild their lives and find happiness of some sort. This kind of grittiness added flavor to the show. Instead of building up on that storyline for the 2nd season, now it seems everybody just stepped out of a hair saloon, wearing weird coats borrowed from Carrie in 'Sex and the City'.
Yeah I agree. In the first season it seemed like an updated version of the series Christy, which was made 20 yrs ago but set in the early 1900s too. Now it seems like it has the glam of most Hallmark Channel movies or Jim Swaggert's Sonlife Broadcasting Network or something. lol smh
sharenow it seems everybody just stepped out of a hair saloon,
Downton Abbey is sort of the ultimate in PBS period dramas set in the early 20th century, (at least in the past decade or so) but even other PBS period dramas like 'Mister Selfridge', also set in London the early 1900s (S1 was roughly 1909-13, S2 1914-18?, & S3 1918-1920?), even though they're not quite as slick/precise as Downton, their costumes & sets seem more accurate than WCTH's S2, which almost looks like just any other movie on the Hallmark Channel.
shareTonight was beyond distracting! One lady had a see through blouse where you could tell she had a tank top underneath. Jack's blue jeans (while existing in that time) made him look like stepped out of an Abercrombie catalog. Again, 90% of the women wearing there hair down was another distraction. While comparing this to the ultimate in Downtown Abby might be unfair I will compare it to Christie, the mid 1990's show set in rural TN. They did a great job making you believe you were in that era.
It's really difficult to get fully immersed in the storyline when I'm too busy cringing at the costumes every 10 to 15 minutes.
Yeah I know exactly what you mean. Christy, from 1994, was more authentic in costumes & actor choice than WCTH S2, which seems to more subscribe to the Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman version of historical 'authenticity,' instead. lol (WCTH Season 1 seemed a bit closer to being a 'Christy' redo than S2 seems to be so far.)
Christy episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQppdu5M-kQ
Dr Quinn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvhSKMTN75k
(Part of the reason why I note Dr Quinn as being less authentic was mainly because of how Jane Seymour often wore her hair down, how the guys haircuts could've fit in with the longer styles some guys wore in the mid-90s, and how the streets of 'Colorado Springs' were usually uber clean & pristine...much like 'Hope Valley' on this show. lol)
The hair and makeup has totally bugged me this season. Abigail has highlighted hair, Rosemary has an ombre look and everyone is sporting flowing beach curls. There must be a helluva line for the curling iron, hope it's industrial strength. And seriously, Elizabeth's hair looked flawless in the scene where she was mucking the stalls and doing the other chores. Any woman would have pinned it up in real life and it wouldn't have looked so great when you were done with the chores. At least they showed her skirt appropriately dirty. The only women who are somewhat period with the hair are Elizabeth's mother, Mrs Ramsey and the widow lady who liked the fake minister.
The difference in makeup between last season and this is atrocious too. There was one scene with Elizabeth in this last episode where she was heavily made up, more so than in other scenes. This reminds me of the difference in makeup on the compound women between the first and subsequent seasons of Big Love. I remember the troublemaking wife of Alby's wearing those extra-long Snooki-type eyelashes. That kind of thing takes me totally out of the story.
I'm still not getting that huge blue coat Abigail wears. It's so odd looking. Her daughter-in-law Clara wore a somewhat similar shorter coat.
I find it odd that every single woman had her hair down except for the spinster type one who took a shine to the fake reverend.
In 1910, every woman had her hair up in a chignon. And 9 times out of 10, wore a hat. All of them looked like actress Veronica Lake with their hair draped over one eye.
Plus, if they want to be really fashionable, the hobble skirt was all the rage, but I could see that looking silly on TV.
The necklines also plunged way too much, as well as the dresses being too flowy. They looked like they were from the '40s.
The hair and costumes this season bother me. They aren't period, women would not wear their hair down that much and with the sort of quasi period costumes it looks amateurish, like how a community theater would dress women in the Edwardian period. It's a little distracting. Half of the fun of a period show is to enjoy the hair and dresses of the time (at least for me.) there was one episode where elizabeth had a metallic silver blouse on?? I think they should reel in their attempts to "modernize."
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I've been catching up on the show and had to see what everyone was saying. I'm here to admit that I too am distracted with the hair down. I know production is tight but it is very distracting.
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I came here to complain about the amount of make up they wear on this show and I found this thread. I am still in season one and I can't imagine that it is worse in season 2. Sigh.
shareYeah they really have to get the hair accurate to the times as much as possible.
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Wow, I never thought that inaccurate hair could be so incredibly distracting, but it really is. The wardrobe is also a complete mess. I feel like they creators of the show don't even have a clue what time period they're trying to set it in anymore.
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Some of the dresses look like 1980's prom dresses. It's like they raided grandma's attic and cobbled together the Frankenstein of 1910's fashion. I mean the guys don't both me but for the love of god, the women's costuming is bad. Also, where did the poor hick villagers go in Season 2?
shareGood question. From the look of it, they upgraded the show from the Appalachian like residents from S1 (characters similar to those cast on the period drama 'Christy' in the 1990s) to people more similar to most modern Hallmark Channel movies & soap operas. Was it due to a budget change (and people expecting Lori Loughlin to look her Hollywood best) who knows?
shareHair, makeup and costumes are way off. In the scene where all the sisters are walking down the stairs all their dresses are almost sleeveless. Anne of Green Gables did clothing the right way.
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