SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

vioss-34159 I was fooled by the high ratings into expecting something good. Although I admit watching only a part of the first episode which might not do this series justice, I strongly doubt that it would improve further on and to be honest, I did not have the strength to continue. Every so often we all come across someone who thinks he's really funny though he isn't but won't shut up... Turn that annoying person into a series and you get "another period". The cast and acting seemed good but then again the content is so poor, this actually made things somehow worse in my opinion. What a pity... A show like this makes you truly appreciate "black adder" which I suggest watching instead of this.

MartinHafer "Another Period" is a strange reality show-like creation for The Comedy Channel. And, while I really enjoy it, I think it's a hard sell for its audience...which surprises me since normally developing a large audience is a must for television shows. The only way it would make sense is that someone in charge there loves the show and doesn't mind that it isn't all that popular. Considering they also make "Drunk History", this would make sense.As for the show, it's a faux reality show that follows the most worthless mega-rich family of the Edwardian era...the Bellacourts. They are the embodiment of everything rotten in the worst of the worst wealthy plutocrats. Every vice, every possible instance of selfishness and every chance the show can take to expose them for the worthless human beings they are...that's pretty much the show. And, it does this with a nice attention to historical details...something that history lovers, like myself, can appreciate. Well worth seeing and there is certainly nothing like it.FYI--The show is EXTREMELY adult at times. Many crude moments...too many for the kids.

stinadianne Creators Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome have hidden real life issues in their overtly wacky and brash parody of Downton Abbey.Another Period follows the misadventures of the extremely wealthy Bellacourt family in 1902. They are stupid, selfish, misguided, ignorant, and all around horrible people. When a beautiful new servant girl, Celine (Christina Hendricks), is hired, she is immediately renamed "Chair" by one of the Bellacourt sisters. Chair is there with an agenda though; she is having an affair with Commodore Bellacourt (David Koechner), and she is planning to conceive his child and take over his estate.Lindhome and Leggero both play the idiot Bellacourt sisters, Beatrice and Lillian. Lillian (Leggero) is vapid and only acts with selfish desire. Beatrice (Lindhome) is sweet but a complete and total dullard. The girls are married to Victor (Brian Huskey) and Albert (David Wain), who are having their own love affair together. Beatrice and her brother Frederick (Jason Ritter) are in love and sleeping together in a unabashed display of incest.The characters display perfectly abhorrent behavior for any era. The Bellacourts treat their servants like they are trash, yelling and throwing things at them when something is not just right. Lillian and Beatrice ask their husbands to fake their own deaths so they can be granted divorces. Their mother, played to perfection by the amazing Paget Brewster, is an opium addict who barely has a handle on reality. Michael Ian Black dons an indistinguishable accent as Peepers, the head butler. He is fully devoted to the job and the Bellacourt family despite the fact that he is treated like something caught on the bottom of their heeled button up boots.If you peer through the outrageous behavior and hilarity, you'll see some pretty dark issues representative of the time emerge. One maid, having just come back from a mental hospital, where she was treated for "hysteria", is ridiculed and treated like she is contagious. Another footman is raped, or, as they put it in the show, "ravished" by a female guest of the Bellacourts, and he is ignored and made to look a fool when he tries to tell anyone. In another scene, Chair is to break the news to the children that their fathers have died, but when she tells them they begin to mourn for the death of Peepers, for he is the only male figure they have ever known.Peeling away all the wackiness, Another Period is actually very sad and is trying to say something about not only how people were treated back then but how we treat each other today. It would seem that the only way Lindhome and Leggero could be taken seriously on their views is by hiding it in a comedy. Good for them and for us then that they are so adept in making us laugh.

atlasmb Featuring broad comedy reminiscent of Monty Python, in part because it's a period piece, "Another Period" is about the Bellacourt family--one of the obscenely rich families that populated the cliffs of Newport, R.I. at the turn of the century, when Victorian values collided with entitlement and self-indulgence.Lillian and Beatrice are the daughters--two self-obsessed ninnies who care only for social status and pampering themselves, like the Hilton sisters might be if they had money. The third daughter is Hortense, a broad-faced spinster who the other sisters enjoy ridiculing.Mr. Peepers (Michael Ian Black) is the major domo who enforces the arbitrary and demeaning rules of the household over the myriad of servants.In the pilot, the house receives a new maid, Celine (Christina Hendricks), who is promptly given the new appellation "Chair". Given the amazing acting talents of Ms. Hendricks, I think we can expect some laughs. Given her charms, I think we can expect some members of the household to take up upholstery.Helen Keller even visits the mansion for a soiree that devolves into a catfight and knock-knock jokes. Like I said, broad humor.All of the characters are caricatures and this can be a funny show as long as the writers allow the humor to arise from the silly characters without political correctness.Update 7/5/16: This show has been reliably funny and it has not flagged in its efforts to lampoon without any PC qualms. I am increasing my grade to "9".