I found tonight’s episode of Manor House to be very disturbing, with it’s footage of shooting birds and the serving of an entire head of a pig. Edwardian, yes. Something I really wanted to see? No. One of the great conveniences of our modern era is the ability to divorce ourselves from the reality of the death of animals – the end result that we see is plastic-wrapped and packaged in styrofoam, sold at McDonald’s and no longer resembling the animal. On one hand, it is a seemingly civilized method of dealing with things. But I am certain that in another hundred years our future heirs will find us quite barbaric.
I’m not a vegetarian. I’m not a vegan. But I should be. And I may yet be.
I couldn’t help but get generally annoyed at the upstairs family. Given a longer period in that house, they’d all be driven mad. On the production side, for some reason, the quick time elapses always surprise me. Because the show isn’t in real time (like certain other shows I guiltily watched last season *cough* “Big Brother” *cough*), and each episode starts with a narration like, “It’s now been three (or five, etc.) weeks…,” you wonder how really dreary and monotonous it all must be.
I’d like there to be a kind of postmortem (dare I say “reunion episode”?) where all the participants come back and, say, watch clips of how the other half lived. Would be interesting to see and hear their reactions.