Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
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Old school Masterpiece Theater that I watched in high school/college
Brideshead Revisited - https://www.amazon.com/Brideshead-Revisited/dp/B00366PJII Lillie - https://www.amazon.com/Emilie/dp/B07CSKCW3K/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=lillie&qid=1616528451&s=instant-video&sr=1-1 Edward the King - https://www.amazon.com/The-Boy/dp/B007C1MT22/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FQ08ZE38GAK6&dchild=1&keywords=edward+the+king&qid=1616528492&s=instant-video&sprefix=edward+the+%2Cinstant-video%2C162&sr=1-1 I, Claudius - https://www.amazon.com/A-Touch-of-Murder/dp/B007PYEXL6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=YU8D8X38KCH4&dchild=1&keywords=i+claudius&qid=1616528547&s=instant-video&sprefix=i+clau%2Cinstant-video%2C166&sr=1-1 The Jewel in the Crown - https://www.amazon.com/The-Jewel-in-the-Crown/dp/B00QXDGJSA |
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| Forsyte Saga was on the PBS Masterpiece subscription channel (I got it through Amazon) |
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| The Astronaut's Wives Club |
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Anyone seen any of these on this list? Thoughts: I’ve seen: All Creatures Great and Small- 2021 version - it was sweet Beecham House - fair Downton Abbey - good Elizabeth Is Missing - good Howards End - very good Les Misérables - excellent Mrs. Wilson - good Poldark - good, but the later seasons more mediocre Sanditon - good The Chaperone - fair to good The Long Song - excellent The Miniaturist - good |
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Free on Amazon Prime.. BTW.. do you remember very likable actor playing of Peter Townsend in The Crown? He is also in The Forsythes. |
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| Damian Lewis so sexy yum |
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My thoughts: All Creatures Great and Small- I’ve only seen the 2021 version. Think it’s very sweet. Beecham House- mediocre at best, but would have watched a second season. Breathless- good Dark Angel- good, but dark Death Comes to Pemberley- I wanted to love this, but as an Austen fan I absolutely hated it. Downton Abbey- Excellent. One of my favorites Elizabeth Is Missing- very good Endeavour- excellent. I had seen and really liked Inspector Morse and Inspector Lewis before starting. Grantchester- Excellent! Hercule Poirot- Absolute Gold Standard for mystery adaptation. Howards End- poor. Stick with the Emma Thompson/Helena Bonham Carter film version Indian Summers- good, but not great. Inspector Lewis- wonderful! See Endeavor. Stands alone from Inspector Morse, but a bonus if you’ve watched that too. Les Misérables-excellent Little Women- not good. Stick with the film version Miss Marple - great, but without the amazing extra charm of David Suchet’s Poirot. Also disliked how they took some stand alone or Tommy and Tupence Books and mixed them into Miss Marple Miss Scarlet & The Duke- really, really hard to get through. Mr. Selfridge- good Mrs. Wilson- very good Poldark- Excellent. one of my favorites Sanditon- wish they would make a second season!!! Hard to swallow as an Austen fan, but if you ignore that it started off as her last, unfinished novel and just got into the story it was pretty good. Main characters lacked chemistry though. Sherlock- excellent The Chaperone- meh The Durrells in Corfu- one of the absolutely best shows! The Long Song-excellent The Miniaturist- ok, but not great. Story felt incomplete. The Paradise- excellent. Season 1 stronger than season 2. The Unseen Alistair Cooke- more of a documentary than drama. It was informative. To Walk Invisible The Brontë Sisters- not bad Victoria- very, very good What the Durrells Did Next- also a documentary. Worth watching after seeing the show. Wolf Hall- absolute top notch World on Fire- very good. Looking forward to season 2. I’m surprised some of the shows that are frequently aired on PBS on TV aren’t on this list like Lark Rise to Candleford, Cranford and A Place to Call Home. The first is a little too slow for me, but LOVED the later two. |
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| For news and recommendations on period dramas I really like the site Willow and Thatch, https://www.willowandthatch.com/ |
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| Binged the Forsyte Saga, it was good. Interesting to watch the fashions evolve over the 50 or so years. Found it a little silly that most of the main actors never aged though. But it is worth the watch. Damian Lewis is always nice to look at, although his character is just awful in this. |
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Black Sails is super fun! |
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Anyone remembers Jewels series by Danielle Steele, I am not a fan of her stories by default but
this was on TV at some point when I was "tinny" and remember it was mesmerizing. fairy tale.. If the Netflix or Amazon would bring it, I would watch it. Here is very boring and unjust trailer that does not come close to the charm of the series: Sarah Thompson, an American visiting England, meets and marries William Whitfield, the Duke of Whitfield. They settle in a chateau in France and begin a family. World War II interrupts their happiness and alters their future. After the war, the family helps war survivors by buying their jewelry and eventually opens a jewelry store, which rapidly becomes a success. But conflicts abound as new generations arise and forces from both outside and within threaten the store and the family. |
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Book: Jewels debuted at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list and remained in that spot for four weeks.[1][2] It was a paperback bestseller as well, TV Series: Jewels was adapted by Shelley List and Jonathan Estrin into a 1992 NBC television miniseries starring Annette O'Toole as Sarah and Anthony Andrews as William. Directed by Roger Young, the miniseries premiered on NBC on October 18, 1992.[5] It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV and Andrews was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV. Composer Patrick Williams won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special for Part I. |
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The trailer seems promising.. |
Anonymous
| Black Sails looks very "pirate'sy" anything other then brawls and fights? I need more. |