Edie,
Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you.
I agree with you that Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries is no worse than any other movie or series in terms of glossing over the poverty that many lived in at the time. Including more gritty reality in the show would spoil its attraction as a light hearted and visually lovely period mystery show.
Have you read any of Kerry Greenwood's books? I really enjoyed the first in the series, Cocaine Blues.
It's true,too, that a lot of WWII movies don't show the reality of the privations people lived through. Of course, the movies at the time, like Mrs Miniver for example, were morale boosters more than anything, so couldn't show the hunger and discomfort that a real family would have experienced.
