Series · Acorn TV · 2020
Pass it on
Miss Scarlet
61Watch it awake.
A woman who will not quit the work she inherited. Watch it awake. The city is not a nursery.
The review
Eliza Scarlet inherits a debt and a trade, and she refuses the smaller life everyone offers her instead. That refusal is the part the standard can praise: work, nerve, and a father's unfinished obligation. The rest is a costume drama that likes a look across a room a little too much.
Watch it for the hours when she is actually detecting, and for the argument about whether competence needs a man's permission. Do not watch it as a picture of a well-ordered city. Victorian London here is a set. The useful question is the one she keeps answering with her feet: if the work is yours, do it.
Journal
Keep Miss Scarlet in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Under the Banner of Heaven
70 instead of 61
Under the Banner of Heaven is still a crime show, and it scores 70 instead of 61. What you gain is piety: The subject is the difference between faith and certainty that will kill.
The eight
- 8Industry
She takes over a failing business and does the labor, not the pose.
- 5Household
A father's name, a lodging, a courtship that keeps interrupting the job.
- 4Piety
London is a moral city only in spots. Reverence is scarce.
- 8Courage
She walks into rooms that do not want a woman asking questions, and she stays.
- 6Republic
The law is a man she has to argue with. Sometimes she is right. Sometimes she is only bold.
- 6Temperance
The cases have blood in them. The show does not drool.
- 7Truth
A client's story has to survive the evidence. She is better when she lets it.
- 5Stewardship
What she is building is a name that can be left to someone. The show only sometimes remembers that.
Where to watch
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Live Historic · Miss Scarlet · 61IMDb tt8270592
