PREMISE: When Stede Bonnet's marriage falls apart, he throws caution to the wind and follow a yearning to be a cabaret MC. Only, he's not quite ready to tell his family. What's a man to do? Well, lie and say he's invested in real estate on the other of the world, that's what!
Meanwhile, in The Queen Anne, a jaded burlesque veteran and MC is feeling stuck in a bit of a rut. But maybe things'll turn around when some new competition moves into a bar up the road? Either way, can't get much worse, can it?
CW-wise, here be all the burlesque/cabaret staples of booze and genderplay. Pronouns will bounce around wildly when people are performing. No major warnings beyond that, so far.
Boggled to learn there's a subset of #OurFlagMeansDeath fandom who think that Ed isn't canonically Indigenous? Because they don't say aloud that he is? Prithee gentles, the actor is Māori. They cast a Māori actress to play his mother. This was not an accident. (1/14)
Taika has always been proudly vocal about his mixed heritage and the fact they canonically gave Ed a white father and a Māori mother is so important in the context of Ed's character. The show is set at Peak Empire, when England (and Europe) colonised everything (2/14)
There's a powerful thread of subtext of this history within her characterisation and this show doesn’t do anything accidentally: she is a house servant, trapped in poverty, abused by her white partner, and conditioned to believe that "it's not up to us, it's up to God" (3/14)