Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?

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Anonymous wrote:Bolivar.

Amazing landscapes of South America, fabulous fast paced and you learn everything about independence from Spain.
It pulls you in about half of the first episode.

Thanks for this recommendation. I've never heard of it and will definitely check it out.

Adding votes for The Americans and Band of Brothers (we watched the latter after watching Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's Vietnam documentary -- fascinating and heartbreaking to see these two juxtaposed).

+1 to the Burns/Novick Vietnam documentary. One of the best things I've watched, ever. It was in my head for weeks afterward.

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Based on the recommendations here, I started Patrick Mel rose and it is good. I almost quit 45 min in because it seemed the same re: drug use, but I’ve finished the second episode and it’s better.

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Anonymous wrote:Gentleman Jack
Peaky Blinders

Gentleman Jack was very good.

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Breaking Bad

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The Durrells in Corfu

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bolivar.

Amazing landscapes of South America, fabulous fast paced and you learn everything about independence from Spain.
It pulls you in about half of the first episode.

Thanks for this recommendation. I've never heard of it and will definitely check it out.

Adding votes for The Americans and Band of Brothers (we watched the latter after watching Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's Vietnam documentary -- fascinating and heartbreaking to see these two juxtaposed).

Thanks for this recommendation. I’m disappointed by how many period pieces are based in Europe or North America.

Bolivar and Mr. Sunshine sound fascinating.

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Anonymous wrote:Outlander. Nothing else compares.

You only say that because you haven't seen Bolivar.

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Bolivar
Downton Abbey
The Crown
Victoria
Borgia 2011 (not the one with Jeremy Irons , that one I could not...as much as I looooooooooove Jeremy Irons )
Marco Polo (wow!)
Shtisel (while not a period drama, it is set in different world entirely and coincidentally loved by those who also love period dramas)


On my to do list..
The Forsyte Saga
The Palisers
Rome, never had a chance to get to it .

I am looking for more international period pieces like Bolivar, and this looks remarkable on the trailer. Netflix has it:
The White Slave (La Esclava Blanca)
In Colombia in 1821, a Spanish plantation gets burned down, and only the planters' baby is spared. She gets sent to Spain, but concocts a plan to return home and become an abolitionist.

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Question for this crowd:
Seriously, is this any good? Just found it brownsing PBS pages:

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Anonymous wrote:Question for this crowd:
Seriously, is this any good? Just found it brownsing PBS pages:

Others voted this the best one they've seen upthread. I liked it but it got tiresome towards the end. I didn't even finish the last season which isn't like me.

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Anonymous wrote:The Americans

Yes, this. Perfect except it was not filmed in DC and it shows.

Haha yes- they didn't even try. I think there was a chase scene in the first season where they were rattling off all these streets in Takoma/Silver Spring, where I was living at the time, and it was so funny how un-Takoma it looked. Great show overall and I doubt anyone outside the DMV really knew the difference but it always drove me a bit crazy!

Yeah, but they captured the feeling of what it was like to live here in the '80s. And, those characters and their story stays with you. DH and I still wonder about them from time to time -- and we would definitely watch an Americans: Next Gen to find out where Paige and Henry are now. (We have our theories . . . )

DP. How so? How did they capture that feeling?

Music; set design; clothing, hair and makeup; and many, many references to pop culture of the time -- just one example that I loved was a character who talked about going to Jazzercise -- did anyone else go to the huge Jazzercise class that met at a church on Capitol Hill?

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I just wondered into the uncharted for me land of PBS website. While I watch then on TV since.. forever, I never visited their site or at least long ago not to count

Apparently this is a GOLD Mine for titles to watch.. there are masterpieces that are not known to me and that promise some heavy potential.


https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/

All Creatures Great and Small

Arthur & George

Atlantic Crossing

Baptiste

Beecham House

Breathless

Churchill's Secret

Dark Angel

Death Comes to Pemberley

Downton Abbey

Elizabeth Is Missing

Endeavour

Flesh and Blood

Grantchester

Hercule Poirot

Home Fires

Howards End

Indian Summers

Inspector Lewis

King Charles III

Les Misérables

Little Women

Magpie Murders

Man in an Orange Shirt

Miss Marple

Miss Scarlet & The Duke

Mr. Selfridge

Mrs. Wilson

My Mother and Other Strangers

Poldark

Press

Prime Suspect: Tennison

Ridley Road

Roadkill

Sanditon

Sherlock

Silk

The Chaperone

The Child in Time

The Collection

The Durrells in Corfu

The Lady Vanishes

The Long Song

The Miniaturist

The Paradise

The Unseen Alistair Cooke

To Walk Invisible The Brontë Sisters

Unforgotten

Van der Valk

Victoria

Wallander

What the Durrells Did Next

Wolf Hall

World on Fire

Worricker

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Anonymous wrote:Bolivar
Downton Abbey
The Crown
Victoria
Borgia 2011 (not the one with Jeremy Irons , that one I could not...as much as I looooooooooove Jeremy Irons )
Marco Polo (wow!)
Shtisel (while not a period drama, it is set in different world entirely and coincidentally loved by those who also love period dramas)


On my to do list..
The Forsyte Saga
The Palisers
Rome, never had a chance to get to it .

I am looking for more international period pieces like Bolivar, and this looks remarkable on the trailer. Netflix has it:
The White Slave (La Esclava Blanca)
In Colombia in 1821, a Spanish plantation gets burned down, and only the planters' baby is spared. She gets sent to Spain, but concocts a plan to return home and become an abolitionist.

I was an earlier PP and forgot about this one. It was great! It honestly should have been called Genghis Khan because the character of Marco Polo takes a backseat to the intrigue of Khan’s court.

I also loved Rome and Spartacus, although the latter isn’t for everyone. It’s highly stylized and gory, but it’s fantastic.

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Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Mad Men

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The Last Kingdom