'The Miniaturist' Recap, Part 1: Sickening of the Soul
In The Miniaturist's opening episode, Nella introduces us to 17th century Amsterdam.
Marin: We do no keep sugar in the house. The luxury of it sickens the soul.
The world has changed enormously in the last 100 years. Downton Abbey spent six seasons running through how the world changed drastically from 1912 to 1925. The advent of computers and the internet in the 1990s has given the world today as massive a shift from 2002 to 2015. With the world having altered in such a vast manner, the world of the 1600s is one so foreign as to be alien by today's standards.
