Yeah episode 3 was a bit of a slower one, you do kind of get the general plan James has though and it'll be interesting to see it take shape and the obstacles it will face.
The husband/wife scenes are extremely uncomfortable and creepy as fuck, but I really like the portrayal of it. Way too many historical shows nowadays gloss over how women were treated 100, 150 years ago. They were just barely a step up from property and the concept of disobeying your husband wouldn't even be something most people would understand. A wife's body literally belonged to her husband and that scene nailed that. It also makes the achievements of women of the past all the more remarkable. Also a good scene of how the nobility (the rapist Duke) were considered untouchable by the common man and how they viewed themselves.
I've never really been able to understand how Victorian England had such views on women but had little problem accepting and loving a queen as monarch. I know it took a long and bloody road to go from Henry the 8th to Queen Mary and then Victoria but still a fascinating period to me.
