What a waste this show is – a waste of an excellent cast and an eye-popping costume budget. This story of old money vs new money has some decent elements, but the script falls flat with most of the characters being completely one-dimensional, showing no nuance or growth. We leave season one much as we …
Set in the 1920s, Miss Fisher, a wealthy Australian woman, solves murders for fun and is a constant thorn in the side of handsome Inspector Jack Robinson. Serious costume porn. A fun romp, but don’t expect anything surprising or deep.
Part of the “Inspector Morse” series of shows, this show is set in the ‘60s and shows Morse as a young man. Earnest and serious but prone to political missteps that hold him back, Morse solves murders in and around Oxford.
A nurse from WWII, Claire (Catriona Balfe), while on a second honeymoon in Scotland, falls through some standing stones and into the 1740s. There she meets Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a handsome Scots nobleman/soldier/outlaw and they marry and fall in love. As the seasons continue, Claire and Jamie get involved in various historical events and …
Jane Austen started writing Sanditon but died before it was finished, so she left nothing but the characters and a setting for the story – an oceanside village that a local promoter is trying to make into a grand resort destination. That set up allowed the writer to take this adaptation to a darker place …
Quiet, slow-paced miniseries that tells the story of a convicted murderess in the mid 1840s. Told in flashbacks, the story leaves us wondering, did she, or didn’t she?
The first two seasons series details the early years of Queen Elizabeth II’s marriage and ascension to the throne. Claire Foy and Matt Smith play the Queen and Prince Philip respectively for the first two seasons. The second two seasons cover the 1960’s and early 70’s with Olivia Coleman and Tobias Menzies taking on the …
Historical drama loosely based on the real life of Anne Lister, a woman in 1830s Yorkshire who lived openly as a lesbian, even taking a wife. It’s fine, but Anne sometimes seems a bit manipulative – which is better than having a perfect protagonist, but means we’re not always rooting for her. Also, I never …
A Masterpiece BBC drama. Poldark tells the story of Captain Ross Poldark (Aiden Turner), an idealistic man always fighting against an unfair and difficult world when he returns to Cornwall after fighting for the losing side in the American Revolutionary War. Ross is constantly in conflict with the scheming and wealthy Warleggans as he tries …
Beloved show about the lives and loves of the Earl and Countess of Grantham, their three daughters and their staff in the years from 1912 into the 1920’s. Touching, witty, sentimental. Sometimes there is a heavy hand with the sappiness, but we don’t care because we love these characters so much.