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There was a play last year that you will definitely remember.
Gorgeous, bold, rock' roll.
The struggle between two old bustards tells a story of a woman's quest for independence.
Now the storm is back, and the rating has risen from 8.4 to 9.0.
Needless to say, a must see —
The second season of "Ming Shu"
Harlots Season 2
Or the familiar taste —
Gorgeous Rococo wind.
Raw girls.
Listen to the bloody rock background music.
The whole drama is still so "burning".
Following the clues left over from the previous season, the conflict between the two brothels escalates again.
In the first season, Margaret (Samantha Morton) and Lydia (Leslie Manville) are two old bustards who control everything and appear to be the two ultimate bosses.
By the second season, the more ferocious "beasts" behind them began to emerge.
The Battle of Mingshu was also dragged into a deeper and darker contradiction, and life became more and more like walking on thin ice.
New characters appear.
A new judge, replacing the dead Judge Canliff.
The previous Judge Canliffe was a regular customer of Lydia, who represented the absurd aristocratic class and had been making deals with Lydia.
Their deal is to abduct and kidnap girls from good families for these high-class people with special fetishes to vent their bestiality, and even abuse them to death.
Judge Canliff eventually died an unknown death, and the murderer remained at large.
And this new judge directly took Lydia's old nest and sent this white-haired "old bustard" to prison.
Bad news from the enemy is good news.
Margaret scoured the evidence to track down Judge Canliffe's death, believing that this was a perfect opportunity to knock down Lydia with one punch.
However, she did not suffer a few counterattacks.
Received a rotten pig heart as a warning.
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Next up were Margaret's prostitutes, whose throats were brutally slit and their bodies were thrown at the doorstep of their homes.
If last season's competition was mainly for money.
In this world, money is a woman's only power
Then the complexity of this season's struggle is even more difficult to predict.
For example, Margaret, who started from the bottom, originally made money, and also completed the transformation between the old bustard and his wife, mother, friends and other multiple identities, balancing the relationship between all parties.
But in the second season, her inflated selfishness began to upset that balance.
Gradually, Margaret also became the Lydia who had been spurned by her.
Even my daughter said—"
I don't hate you, Mom
I pity you
You don't have the power to love
There is no ability to be a mother
You're an old bustard
That's the antonym for mother
On the other hand, Lydia's imprisonment also shows that she is not only vicious and greedy.
She began to taste the heat of the world.
When I was in prison
You actually have a party
You laugh at my misfortune
Pray I'll never come back
Her son and mistress are trying to seize her property.
The nobles who had been in the same boat and were regarded as a life-saving straw by her also abandoned her.
The only one who came to her rescue was charlotte, the daughter of the enemy.
But this salvation is not so simple as salvation.
The wounds on the body can heal, but the scars in the heart are left forever.
These scars are something I will remember for the rest of my life
Never give kindness easily
In fact, women at the bottom are not the only ones who suffer persecution.
In those days, tragedies for women happened to different classes.
Liv Taylor plays the noblewoman Isabella, the heiress of the Bryan family.
Beautiful, noble, sitting on wealth and status.
(Yes, you read that right, it's the fairy princess in The Lord of the Rings)
But she also lives in lies and deception. A secret worth five hundred pounds was her weakness.
Maybe our maids are no different from your prostitutes
Always living in lies
What else can women rely on to protect themselves besides money?
The power of a woman lies in her secrets
Everyone holds each other's weaknesses, so they can coexist peacefully and live in peace with each other.
And these secrets are nothing more than sex, transactions, interests...
If last season portrayed the hardships of survival.
This season, it is more of a percussion, is there a chance of change?
England in 1763 had just been liberated from medieval theocracy, and the Industrial Revolution had not yet begun.
This period of historical change is also a period of great collapse.
Unwilling to accept that there are only two ways out of life, marriage or maid, many women choose to become prostitutes, sell their bodies, accumulate money, and try to break free from the shackles of fate.
So, don't just see the "big scale" of "Ming Shu".
Nor do you just see the "immorality" of prostitution.
This group of girls who lived lower than the dust, in the face of the oppression of the inherent vision of society, stubbornly carried it down, and even more frustrated and courageous.
When we hate their disgrace.
In fact, it is overlooked that this is the bravest resistance they can make in the era in which they live.
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