Loved Watching Netflix’s Bridgerton? Here Are 5 Other Binge-Worthy Period Dramas To Add To Your Watchlist ( Photo Credit – IMDb )
Netflix’s period drama Bridgerton, based on Julia Quinn’s book series by the name, is a massive hit amongst the younger generation of audience. The series seamlessly weaves Regency-era drama with modern sensibilities, transporting viewers to 1800s London. The storyline revolves around the social season of the ton when young ladies from affluent families are introduced to gentlemen so that they can choose their respective suitors.
Bridgerton was first released in 2020, and has been renewed for three seasons till 2024. The series has kept viewers on the edge of their seats with its palpable and sizzling chemistry between the lead couples, piping-hot gossip of Lady Whistledown, and aesthetics. Netflix has already dropped part one of the third season of the series. While you eagerly await the second part, here are five...
Netflix’s period drama Bridgerton, based on Julia Quinn’s book series by the name, is a massive hit amongst the younger generation of audience. The series seamlessly weaves Regency-era drama with modern sensibilities, transporting viewers to 1800s London. The storyline revolves around the social season of the ton when young ladies from affluent families are introduced to gentlemen so that they can choose their respective suitors.
Bridgerton was first released in 2020, and has been renewed for three seasons till 2024. The series has kept viewers on the edge of their seats with its palpable and sizzling chemistry between the lead couples, piping-hot gossip of Lady Whistledown, and aesthetics. Netflix has already dropped part one of the third season of the series. While you eagerly await the second part, here are five...
- 5/19/2024
- by Koimoi.com Team
- KoiMoi
Pushkin Industries, the audio company co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg, announced today a partnership with the Los Angeles-based production house Little Everywhere. Little Everywhere’s hit show The Dream has joined the Pushkin network. Pushkin Industries and Little Everywhere will co-produce the highly anticipated third season of the investigative series next year. Additionally, the two companies will jointly launch a finance show called Other People’s Pockets, which is expected to premiere in February 2023 and are developing further collaborative projects.
“We’ve long admired the small but mighty team at Little Everywhere from their work on The Dream and beyond,” said Leital Molad, Pushkin’s VP of Content Development, “Their production chops and creative spirit are a great match for Pushkin, and we look forward to collaborating with them for years to come.”
“We are thrilled to be working with Pushkin. From our first meeting, we have felt...
“We’ve long admired the small but mighty team at Little Everywhere from their work on The Dream and beyond,” said Leital Molad, Pushkin’s VP of Content Development, “Their production chops and creative spirit are a great match for Pushkin, and we look forward to collaborating with them for years to come.”
“We are thrilled to be working with Pushkin. From our first meeting, we have felt...
- 11/30/2022
- Podnews.net
Twenty years after a serial killer murdered 16 sex workers in Mashad, Ali Abbasi has made a strangely fictionalised account of his capture and trial
Holy Spider is a serial killer procedural which takes the procedure further than usual, despite its deployment of some pretty familiar tropes. It goes beyond the denouement and the arrest, extending the murderer’s conceited theatre of cruelty to the police cell, the law courts and the media arena.
This is a fictionalised true-crime drama-thriller based on Iranian construction worker Saeed Hanaei, nicknamed “Spider Killer” in the press, who in 2001 was arrested for the murder of 16 sex workers in the northeastern city of Mashad, and became a folk hero to the religious right for claiming to be on a holy mission to cleanse the city of prostitution. (Hanaei has already been the subject of a documentary and another feature film.)
Sitting down to this drama, I...
Holy Spider is a serial killer procedural which takes the procedure further than usual, despite its deployment of some pretty familiar tropes. It goes beyond the denouement and the arrest, extending the murderer’s conceited theatre of cruelty to the police cell, the law courts and the media arena.
This is a fictionalised true-crime drama-thriller based on Iranian construction worker Saeed Hanaei, nicknamed “Spider Killer” in the press, who in 2001 was arrested for the murder of 16 sex workers in the northeastern city of Mashad, and became a folk hero to the religious right for claiming to be on a holy mission to cleanse the city of prostitution. (Hanaei has already been the subject of a documentary and another feature film.)
Sitting down to this drama, I...
- 5/22/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw in Cannes
- The Guardian - Film News
Rochelle Neil is recounting her audition for “The Nevers,” HBO’s new hourlong fantasy series set in a steampunk Victorian London in the aftermath of a mysterious citywide communal vision that leaves some of the populace with superpowers.
“She’s got a priest tied up, and she’s torturing him and throwing fire,” Neil said. “She’s sort of going on this spiel about her childhood, and what happened to her by this priest in this ministry. And she ends up burning an effigy of the baby Jesus. I have no idea what side of my personality I seemed to have showed for [the producers] to go: ‘She’s really good at torturing!’”
As “Bonfire” Annie Carbey, Neil plays one of “The Touched” — those who, after the mass (maybe?) hallucination (maybe?), attain abilities not generally in the human playbook. Conveniently, if one needs a person, place, or thing torched quickly and efficiently,...
“She’s got a priest tied up, and she’s torturing him and throwing fire,” Neil said. “She’s sort of going on this spiel about her childhood, and what happened to her by this priest in this ministry. And she ends up burning an effigy of the baby Jesus. I have no idea what side of my personality I seemed to have showed for [the producers] to go: ‘She’s really good at torturing!’”
As “Bonfire” Annie Carbey, Neil plays one of “The Touched” — those who, after the mass (maybe?) hallucination (maybe?), attain abilities not generally in the human playbook. Conveniently, if one needs a person, place, or thing torched quickly and efficiently,...
- 4/11/2021
- by Ann Donahue
- Indiewire
“Mock if you will,” Christian Evangelist Florence Scanwell (Dorothy Atkinson) chided the bordello workers in Hulu‘s progressive period series Harlots. “There is honor in righteous poverty.” The creative team will be finding new places of employment. Harlots has been cancelled at the streaming service, according to THR, nine months after its third season came to a close.
Based on true stories of real women, Harlots was neither clichéd nor glamorous. It depicted sex work as legitimate. The sex wasn’t gratuitous, it was perfunctory, and there is no judgment of it. The series was written, directed and produced entirely by women. Co-creators Moira Buffini (Jane Eyre) and Alison Newman were Executive Producers alongside Alison Owen, Debra Hayward and Alison Carpenter. Season 3 was written by Buffini, Jane English, Vivienne Harvey and Jessica Ruston, and directed by Robin Sheppard, Chloe Thomas and Debs Paterson, with Pat Tookey-Dickson producing.
Harlots was set in 1763 London.
Based on true stories of real women, Harlots was neither clichéd nor glamorous. It depicted sex work as legitimate. The sex wasn’t gratuitous, it was perfunctory, and there is no judgment of it. The series was written, directed and produced entirely by women. Co-creators Moira Buffini (Jane Eyre) and Alison Newman were Executive Producers alongside Alison Owen, Debra Hayward and Alison Carpenter. Season 3 was written by Buffini, Jane English, Vivienne Harvey and Jessica Ruston, and directed by Robin Sheppard, Chloe Thomas and Debs Paterson, with Pat Tookey-Dickson producing.
Harlots was set in 1763 London.
- 6/10/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
‘Harlots’ is a period drama television series is about Margaret Wells running a brothel in 18th century England while also trying to raise her daughters. The series was created by Alison Newman and Moira Buffini, and it is loosely based on the book ‘The Covent Garden Ladies’ by Hallie Rubenhold. It is a British-American production that originally aired on ITV Encore in the United Kingdom and on Hulu in the United States in March 2017. The third season of the series premiered in the United States on July 10, 2019. The majority of the roles in this series are played
Meet The Cast of Harlots Season 3...
Meet The Cast of Harlots Season 3...
- 7/17/2019
- by Liz Flynn
- TVovermind.com
"Harlots" is the British-American TV series, inspired by "The Covent Garden Ladies" by Hallie Rubenhold, focusing on 'Margaret Wells' (Samantha Morton), a former prostitute who runs a stinky brothel in 18th-century England, while struggling to raise her daughters in a chaotic household, premiering Season 3 July 10, 2019 on Hulu:
"...in London 1763, a woman's opportunity is to marry well or be a prostitute, with the city's brothels run by canny businesswomen including the deranged 'Margaret Wells' and the ruthless 'Lydia Quigley' (Leslie Manville).
"But there is a new morality in the air as religious crusaders demand the closure of brothels, with constables more than happy to launch brutal raids on the women.
"Wells' determined to improve her life and fortune, moves her brothel to 'Greek Street' in Soho to serve a better class of 'Georgian' society.
To finance the move, she auctions the virginity of her younger daughter 'Lucy' as she had...
"...in London 1763, a woman's opportunity is to marry well or be a prostitute, with the city's brothels run by canny businesswomen including the deranged 'Margaret Wells' and the ruthless 'Lydia Quigley' (Leslie Manville).
"But there is a new morality in the air as religious crusaders demand the closure of brothels, with constables more than happy to launch brutal raids on the women.
"Wells' determined to improve her life and fortune, moves her brothel to 'Greek Street' in Soho to serve a better class of 'Georgian' society.
To finance the move, she auctions the virginity of her younger daughter 'Lucy' as she had...
- 6/22/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Ask production designer Maria Djurkovic how she researched period-accurate sets for the late 1970s-set espionage miniseries “The Little Drummer Girl,” which airs on AMC, and she answers: books, the internet, some personal experience. But then she brings up her secret weapon: Philip Clark.
“Phil is something like a detective,” she says. “He can respond to a very specific brief, and my inbox will soon be filled with thousands of images that are appropriate. He has a skill of tracking everything down.”
It may take a village to shoot a TV series, but historically based shows such as “Drummer Girl,” Starz’s “The Spanish Princess,” FX’s “Fosse/Verdon,” History’s “Vikings,” Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle” and PBS Masterpiece’s “Victoria” rarely get very far without some added know-how.
It’s these outside experts who make the shows historically believable. But even though their work is invaluable, their...
“Phil is something like a detective,” she says. “He can respond to a very specific brief, and my inbox will soon be filled with thousands of images that are appropriate. He has a skill of tracking everything down.”
It may take a village to shoot a TV series, but historically based shows such as “Drummer Girl,” Starz’s “The Spanish Princess,” FX’s “Fosse/Verdon,” History’s “Vikings,” Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle” and PBS Masterpiece’s “Victoria” rarely get very far without some added know-how.
It’s these outside experts who make the shows historically believable. But even though their work is invaluable, their...
- 3/27/2019
- by Randee Dawn
- Variety Film + TV
“The Handmaid’s Tale” may have just ended its latest season, but the commentary on female oppression continues on Hulu with the return of “Harlots.” Now in its sophomore season, the drama about warring brothels digs deeper into the underlying issues that have created the enmity, along with the gender inequality that has forced the women into such cutthroat circumstances in 18th-century Georgian London.
The series picks up with in-demand harlot Charlotte Wells (Jessica Brown Findlay) having abandoned her mother Margaret’s (Samantha Morton) brothel on Greek Street for Golden Square, the high-end house of rival bawd Lydia Quigley (Lesley Manville). This seeming betrayal, however, is part of her revenge scheme to take down Quigley, who is responsible for having forced her mother into whoring as a child, which in turn forced her subsequent children into the life.
One of the problematic narrative issues with “Harlots” is its focus on women tearing down other women,...
The series picks up with in-demand harlot Charlotte Wells (Jessica Brown Findlay) having abandoned her mother Margaret’s (Samantha Morton) brothel on Greek Street for Golden Square, the high-end house of rival bawd Lydia Quigley (Lesley Manville). This seeming betrayal, however, is part of her revenge scheme to take down Quigley, who is responsible for having forced her mother into whoring as a child, which in turn forced her subsequent children into the life.
One of the problematic narrative issues with “Harlots” is its focus on women tearing down other women,...
- 7/14/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Harlots is a British period drama that has had a successful first season on Hulu, with the result that a second season is expected to come out in 2018. Like its name suggests, the TV show is centered around prostitutes in a historical London, thus providing its viewers with a look at a side of history that does not get covered much in other period dramas. Here are five things that you may or may not have known about Harlots: Inspired By The Covent Garden Ladies Harlots was inspired by a book called The Covent Garden Ladies by Hallie Rubenhold,
Five Things You Didn’t Know about Hulu’s “Harlots”...
Five Things You Didn’t Know about Hulu’s “Harlots”...
- 10/23/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Wall to Wall to make Woman in Red for BBC2.
The scandal surrounding 18th century aristocrat Lady Seymour Worsley is to be turned into a one-off docu-drama produced by Wall to Wall for BBC2.
Woman in Red follows Sienna Miller-fronted The Girl, which explored the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren, and was the last large scale factual drama produced by the Warner Bros-owned indie.
The screenplay, penned by David Eldridge, tells the story of Lady Seymour Worsley, who left her husband and eloped with his best friend.
Lady Worseley, played by Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games), subsequently becomes the subject of a high-profile court case brought against her by her shamed husband, played by Cilla star Aneurin Barnard.
The 90-minute drama is based on Hallie Rubenhold’s book Lady Worsley’s Whim, originally inspired by a painting of Lady Worsley which hangs in a stately home in Yorkshire.
Woman in Red...
The scandal surrounding 18th century aristocrat Lady Seymour Worsley is to be turned into a one-off docu-drama produced by Wall to Wall for BBC2.
Woman in Red follows Sienna Miller-fronted The Girl, which explored the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren, and was the last large scale factual drama produced by the Warner Bros-owned indie.
The screenplay, penned by David Eldridge, tells the story of Lady Seymour Worsley, who left her husband and eloped with his best friend.
Lady Worseley, played by Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games), subsequently becomes the subject of a high-profile court case brought against her by her shamed husband, played by Cilla star Aneurin Barnard.
The 90-minute drama is based on Hallie Rubenhold’s book Lady Worsley’s Whim, originally inspired by a painting of Lady Worsley which hangs in a stately home in Yorkshire.
Woman in Red...
- 11/21/2014
- ScreenDaily
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