I’m nothing if not the prime audience for a good Victorian-era period piece. Maybe it was my weird childhood obsession with Jack the Ripper, or the fact that I grew up at the exact right time to experience Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies as formative pieces of cinema. I can’t pinpoint the exact reason, but point me in the direction of some bustles and grand mustaches, and I’m all in.
It’s the same reason that I was initially drawn to the concept of Hulu’s A Thousand Blows,…