Disney’s Delicious Romp of a Series Isn’t Just Steamy. It Also Nails a Key Element of the British.

The new Disney+/Hulu series charting the rise and fall of various people associated with an independent TV station called Corinium in the 1980s English countryside.

The four central families of Rivals , the Baddinghams , the Campbell-Blacks , the Joneses , and the O'Haras , all have money.

There are so many markers of class micro-differences in this show, if you’re looking out for them.

The working- and middle-class characters couldn’t care less about these minute, stupid differences between the upper-middle and upper crust.

The show is set in the 80s , but class never dies in the U.K. , and these people remain alive.