The 1800s were an incredibly dynamic century so enough with the bougie shows about royalty and aristocrats. Gimme a show about the factory workers in the midst of the Industrial Revolution and their fight for labor rights.
I want to see workers suffering under the capitalist's yoke, reading theory, organizing in secret, striking and fighting. Some rich character drama in the factions that don't want to lose their jobs by unionizing, or in finding rats among them, or facing against the police.
Give me that worker's struggle drama instead of yet another goddamn aristocracy show
To be fair, fiction about aristocrats is easier because it's lazy. Need an army? Boom, army. Need the funds to secure all the logistics of moving that army? Boom, done. Need the freedom to do whatever the heck you want without worrying about your finances? Boom, done. Need your every single whim to have gravitas? Boom, you can arbitrarily order someone killed or uproot the lives of many people with just a command.
Fiction about aristocrats is easy because it's lazy; all the expensive and difficult details can be handled by either the money in your account, or the powerful people in your pocket.
The other side of it is to have your character be friends with powerful people.