History Series / AnotherPeriod

** In the season finale, Blanche [[spoiler: returns from the insane asylum after having been released by Peepers, and pushes Chair down a flight of stairs as revenge for having had her committed to the asylum again. The first season ends with Chair unconscious and the fate of her and the baby inconclusive.]]

It is 1902, and the Bellacourt family are the scions of ritzy Newport, Rhode Island--which doesn't stop social-climbing sisters Lillian and Beatrice (co-creators Natasha Leggero and Creator/RikiLindhome) from being as lazy, greedy, self-centered, petty, and mean-spirited as possible to each other and everyone else. Then again, the entire household is pretty much batshit insane from top to bottom, from the extended Bellacourt clan to the army of butlers and chambermaids who serve their every deranged whim.

** Male version: in "Lillian's Birthday," Chair and the Commodore sneak off for a mid-day RollInTheHay--until Chair stops and demands that the Commodore [[ADateWithRosiePalms finishes himself]]. It goes on for minutes.

** Creator/ScottJoplin and his ahistorical callipygian companion "The Armenian Princess" act and look, respectively, like Music/KanyeWest and Kim Kardashian.

* AbusiveParents: Both Lillian and Beatrice have numerous offspring--all of whom have been fobbed off on the maids to raise. Chair is horrified to discover that "putting the children to bed" translates into "feeding them morphine drops." This works on all but the eldest child, who admits [[ImmuneToDrugs "I've built up a tolerance."]]
** The Commodore and Dodo display this trope in spades as well. They rarely ever show any affection towards their children, routinely insult them, and are glad when they are not around. By the end of the first season, the Commodore has disowned Lillian and Beatrice and kicked them out of the mansion.

* BlackComedyRape: One time, a ghost had sex with Beatrice while she was asleep. It looked like Frederick, and it smelled like Frederick, and it was solid and not translucent at all- but it wasn't a ghost, it was Frederick.

* BrotherSisterIncest[=/=]{{Twincest}}: Beatrice (despite being married) regularly has sex with her twin brother Frederick.
* BuxomIsBetter: Chauncey Alistair thinks so. For this reason, he thinks Hortense is more beautiful than Lillian or Beatrice, shocking all three sisters.

* ConfessionCam: As befits a reality-TV parody. Even one set in 1902.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Beatrice upon escaping the set of Thomas Edison's stag film:
-->'''Beatrice:''' Some of the stuff I did was pretty embarrassing, but luckily, nobody saw it except for me, the director, the cameraman, the two actors, and the noisy box with the glass eye. ''[points to camera]'' Kind of looks like that one.

* HollywoodHistory: in the episode "Senate" the Commodore says that Senator Ambrose Burnside has died and that Frederick will replace him… even though Burnside died in 1881 and the show is set in 1902. Note that the real-life Burnside was a Union Army general in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar and would be 78-years-old if still alive in 1902.
** Though it's often averted, as the lavish lifestyle of the Newport elite was well researched.

* LovableSexManiac: Hamish. He may be crude, filthy, and a hardcore lecher, but his TheLoinsSleepTonight moment with Lillian, rather than being a RageBreakingPoint, finds him chastened and apologetic. Then there is this bemused exchange as the servants discuss Garfield's "ravishing:"
-->'''Hamish:''' Hey, does this mean that I can ravish Blanche?\\

** Lillian qualifies as well, in the ReallyGetsAround category.
-->''[to Peepers]'' You can't have your funeral the same day we're having our funeral. Today is the day I'm gonna meet the thick-dicked man of my dreams.

* MinstrelShow: Hamish was performing in one when he first met Celine[=/=]Chair.

* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler:Chair is pregnant with the Commodore's child.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Chair:''' [patting belly, to camera] I hope it's an heir. ([[{{Beat}} beat]]) [[VerbalBackspace I mean boy.]]]]

* NiceJewishBoy: Averted: Dr Goldberg is affable with anyone at his level or above, but not at all nice, and gets important matters of Jewish law dead wrong, most notably a doctor's duty to attend to a woman giving birth's supervening all Sabbatical restrications. (Also, not even Orthodox Jews are not supposed to have sex through holes in sheets, let alone with a non-Jew, and sex with a third person present is considered very wrong as well.) He is also not nice in the sense of not having particular vices, being up for just about any vice on-offer.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Creator/ScottJoplin and his ahistorical callipygian companion "The Armenian Princess" act and look, respectively, like Music/KanyeWest and Kim Kardashian.

* RapeAsBackstory: While detoxing from morphine, Dodo looks up at the photos of her children and says that they are [[MaritalRapeLicense all products of rape]], with Beatrice and Frederick being the "double product of a rape."

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: As seen in the page image, ''thirteen'' actors comprise the main cast. Serving-staff extras and guest stars double, and probably triple, that number.

** Peepers, unbeknownst to the Bellacourts, was adopted by a family of American Indians.

** In the season finale, Blanche [[spoiler: returns from the insane asylum after having been released by Peepers, and pushes Chair down a flight of stairs as revenge for having had her committed to the asylum again. The first season ends with Chair unconscious and the fate of her and the baby inconclusive.]]

* NiceJewishBoy: Averted: Dr Goldberg is affable with anyone at his level or above, but not at all nice, and gets important matters of Jewish law dead wrong, most notably a doctor's duty to attend to a woman giving birth's supervening all Sabbatical restrications. (Also, not even Orthodox Jews are not supposed to have sex through holes in sheets, let alone with a non-Jew with another person present.) He is also not nice in the sense of not having particular vices, being up for just about any vice on-offer.

* MarriageOfConvenience: Blanche and Dr. Goldberg. Since Blanche is pregnant and Dr. Goldberg is a Candian immigrant, marriage solves both of their problems.

** For the talent portion of the beauty pageant, Lillian performs [[{{Oireland}} "mickface", painting her face white, donning a red wig, and mocking Irish stereotypes]].

** In "Senate," Sigmund Freud diagnoses the Bellacourt women as suffering from "hysteria," and prescribes that their…lady bits…be stimulated with (severally) feathers, a primitive vibrator (that is period-accurate), and a large, biccle-powered, machine by (respectively) the maids, Dr Freud, and a ferociously-pedalling Garfield. Played straight with Lillian and Beatrice; subverted by Dodo, who barely reacts.

** In "Senate," Sigmund Freud diagnoses the Bellacourt women as suffering from "hysteria," and prescribes that their… lady bits… be stimulated with feathers. By the maids. Played straight with Lillian and Beatrice; subverted by Dodo, who barely reacts.