Anonymous
03/22/2021 20:24
Subject: Re:Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
The Last Kingdom
Anonymous
03/22/2021 18:12
Subject: Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Mad Men
Mad Men
Anonymous
03/22/2021 17:58
Subject: Re:Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
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.
Anonymous
03/22/2021 17:37
Subject: Re:Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
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
Anonymous
03/22/2021 17:36
Subject: Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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?
Anonymous
03/22/2021 17:35
Subject: Re:Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
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.
Anonymous
03/22/2021 17:26
Subject: Re:Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
Question for this crowd:
Seriously, is this any good? Just found it brownsing PBS pages:
Seriously, is this any good? Just found it brownsing PBS pages:
Anonymous
03/22/2021 16:47
Subject: Re:Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
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.
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.
Anonymous
03/22/2021 16:42
Subject: Re:Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
Anonymous wrote:Outlander. Nothing else compares.
You only say that because you haven't seen Bolivar.
Anonymous
03/22/2021 16:29
Subject: Re:Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
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.
Anonymous
03/22/2021 15:56
Subject: Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
The Durrells in Corfu
Anonymous
03/22/2021 06:20
Subject: Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
Breaking Bad
Anonymous
03/22/2021 05:09
Subject: Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
Anonymous wrote:Gentleman Jack
Peaky Blinders
Gentleman Jack was very good.
Anonymous
03/21/2021 02:49
Subject: Re:Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
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.
Anonymous
03/20/2021 23:23
Subject: Re:Best Period Drama Series you’ve seen?
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).
+1 to the Burns/Novick Vietnam documentary. One of the best things I've watched, ever. It was in my head for weeks afterward.