However, I've reached the church episode, which is an odd one, because it assumes that Richard is an Anglican and indeed a Christian. I had assumed the character was Jewish, partly because of a young him and his parents having fled Czechoslovakia in 1939. Also because he's just generally coded as a total outsider to this very traditional upper class English countryside life. Did anybody else get the impression that Richard was supposed to be Jewish, or was that just me jumping to conclusions?
I never got the Jewish impression (personally, I might have assumed Catholic, but I come from a Catholic background), but I don't know if Anglican in Czechoslovakia is realistic. Then again, a bit of a google shows that there are Anglican churches in the Czech republic from 1867 and a story of German Jewish immigrants coming to England and choosing to baptize their children into Anglicanism, so it's not ridiculous that Richard would be Anglican.
It's one of those shows where as much as he's an outsider to the upper crust country way of doing things, he's still very... British in some basic assumption ways.
And it's a very funny show. Penelope Keith is wonderful in it.
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Date: 2016-01-25 04:55 am (UTC)I never got the Jewish impression (personally, I might have assumed Catholic, but I come from a Catholic background), but I don't know if Anglican in Czechoslovakia is realistic. Then again, a bit of a google shows that there are Anglican churches in the Czech republic from 1867 and a story of German Jewish immigrants coming to England and choosing to baptize their children into Anglicanism, so it's not ridiculous that Richard would be Anglican.
It's one of those shows where as much as he's an outsider to the upper crust country way of doing things, he's still very... British in some basic assumption ways.
And it's a very funny show. Penelope Keith is wonderful in it.