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Time Crashers
2015 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Ten celebrities are about to leave their 21st century lives and everything they know behind to become time travellers. Our ten intrepid travellers will crash into six very different eras of British history and have no idea where – or when – they're going. They will spend a day immersed in each era, living, working, dressing and eating as the ‘lower' classes did whilst attempting to follow orders and fulfil a task set by their superiors. Will they be able to survive history and will they be able to leave their smartphones behind?
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It's funny, but I often find myself longing for "simpler times" without the modern day distractions my life is saturated with (by my own choice/fault obviously).
Then I think about the chores I have around the house and realize that "emptying my fridge's water pan" potentially 2 or more times/day would be a giant PITA.
Of course it all comes down to free time, and I have this assumption that life was lived at a slower pace back then. I wonder how much of that is actually true though. You had a ton more little chores to maintain things, and there was less automation for sure. And a lot of it was highly dependent on your class and wealth. If you were poor, life may have been "slower paced with fewer distractions," but you were still working 12-16hr days in a factory in shitty living conditions.
Ironically enough I'm watching a UK reality series called Time Crashers right now that takes some celebs and sticks them into various time periods in different roles to see how they fare. I normally loathe reality TV and love documentaries, and this is striking an oddly pleasant middle ground.