Tippin the velvet...

[Silky]

News is things get a bit hotter tonight...mmmm period lesbians

[jj]

'Period lesbians'?
Be more careful with your choice of words......!!!

[Shaun?]

We don't want to get the anti-hunt brigade here!

[joe king]

frigging awful (tippin the velvet)
the 'erotic scenes' weren't erotic more comical (the stuff on channel 5 with that woman in lingerie was more erotic)
This is 'emotional pornography', people reacting strongly, crying, soap opera type action.
I saw a weird western called 'Johnny Guitar' with Joan Crawford, that was an amazing film with grand soap opera like 'emotions'.
The leather strap-on was the slightly cheeky main action. A period drama with special effects? This is a joke.

[jj]

Hadn't seen the first episode, but if the second was anything to go by, the erotism is conspicuously absent, and it only just makes it plot-wise.
A couple of good actresses (Anna Chancellor, Sarah Thingy, but definitely not Ms Hawes, who resembles an entire deciduous forest) and a lot of costume does not a drama make.
Another triumph for the BBC hype-machine.

[steve]

saw it last night,idont get the title tipping the velvet?

[Dollar Bill]

Well I got no complaints. I've always wanted to see Anna Chancellor cast off her prim and proper image to play an insatiable dyke (lol)

[jj]

Lesbian slang for cunnilingus.

[Dollar Bill]

Calling it that is probably better than "Victorian Muff-Munchers" (lol) I thought the final scene where the two girls were caught fucking each other was hilarious.

[jj]

The whole thing was (unintentionally) hilarious....when you compare it with stuff like Helen Baxendale's les scene in that Army thing, or Cherie Lunghi's 'Strangers' romp, or a fantastic "strangers at a hotel" short shown on the 'Shooting Gallery'........
It doesn't work as drama, and it doesn't work as soft porn.