21 Ways Period Films Will Get This Era Wrong

The crews of some period films and series go to painstaking lengths to ensure historical accuracy among their costumes, props and storylines, but most of them don’t give a shit. Who cares if something happened 400 years ago or 500 years ago? Us, that’s who. But even the least pedantic among us has had a moment while watching a period movie of thinking, “Are those mofos eating potatoes? In England? In the Middle Ages?”

Well, provided moviemaking species are around that long, they’re eventually going to start making period films about us. And it’s going to be hilarious, because everything we do, wear, eat and say to each other is going to be fantastically wrong. That’s why user Juxta_Cut asked r/AskReddit, “In a hundred years from now, what would movies set in our time period get wrong? What events would be romanticized and blown out of proportion?”