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For most of the seriess first season, the two were obsessed with joining high society.

The satire ofAnother Periodis multifaceted.

Wodehouses stories) but also because the servant characters are desperate to ascend to jobs they imagine are better.

Though these shows are markers of modernity,Another Perioddemonstrates that their lifestyles have deep roots in American history.

Probably the same as now or the first time women were in anything.

That things have changed so little since 1902 is damning and painful.

and the ways they participated in the oppression of people of color and less monied classes.

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Harry Waksberg is a writer and lazeabout based in Riverside, CA.

He is the creator and writer of the web seriesDoing Good.