Status Updates From Barnaby Rudge

After a first act which leaves the small lives he lovingly built and thoroughly brought us to be invested in in tragic ruins, Dickens explodes into the second act with a five year time skip and by flinging Lord Gordon himself onto the scene, and a five minute bellowed tirade about popery being shrieked by one of his enthusiastic minions. Diagnosis: kino.

Nothings happening really. A lot of vibeyness, establishing the character of London as it was. Dickens often says "London as it is now (1850s) has changed unrecognisably compared to the time I describe", which is very cute
Lots of fun and sinister characters, very strong sense of time and place, but the action has yet to pick up. I imagine theres gonna be a lot more of this 'setting up the dominos' yet to come