An autistic woman watching a period drama has been driven to distraction after catching several glimpses of a modern doorknob, it has been reported.
Pippa Durham, 38, was looking forward to a new six-part series billed as a bodice-ripping retelling of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. However, she spotted a 20th-century doorknob in the background of one of the shots and has been livid ever since.
Durham said: “I can’t believe no one in the production team cared about getting it right. Isn’t it just common knowledge that monasteries didn’t have doorknobs like that? That door should have had a latch on it, or nothing at all. What is this, amateur hour?”
“And not to be pedantic, but Thomas Cromwell’s got veneers. As far as I know, he never had occasion to go to Turkey.”
A spokesperson for the show said: “We let the abbess of Shaftesbury say ‘fuck’, and this is what you’re upset about?”
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