Love Through a Prism has a romantic’s heart, for better and (occasionally) for worse.
This sense of romanticism immediately shines through in the gorgeous background art. Fittingly for a show about artists, there’s a strong sense of place and tone conveyed through the artwork, from the gentle, sweeping blues and greens of pastoral England to the pleasantly crowded roads of London and on to the stately halls of the academy itself.
It’s bright, charming, and made me badly want to visit England again—perhaps for another pint at the based-on-a-real-pub the cast frequents. In other words, Prism is a highly idealized picture of early-1900s England with nary a smog cloud in the sky. Which makes for some lovely scenery, but becomes less effective when the series turns its attention to the social climate of the period.
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