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YMMV: Tipping The Velvet
  • Hollywood Homely: Plain Nan passes as a rent boy for a few years on the street. Rachel Stirling, who plays her in the TV adaptation is never anything but a gorgeous young woman in boy drag.
  • Narm: Oh god, SO MUCH NARM. Not in the book, but in the TV adaptation. There's nothing wrong with the acting, but the BBC for some reason got very overexcited and tried to fill what was essentially a period drama with special effects. This includes slowmo, fastmo, PEOPLE RANDOMLY TURNING NEGATIVE WHEN KISSING EACH OTHER...

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