Period Drama Recommendations!

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Had a really shitty week and need something to cheer me up ☹️

I loved Harlots, Vanity Fair, Downton Abbey etc

I’ve got sky, Disney plus and Amazon video

See if you can get a one-week free trial of Stars Video (via your Amazon subscription) and watch The Great. It's really, really funny!

Other period dramas I love:

Pride & Prejudice; Sense & Sensibility; Emma; War & Peace (this might be on ITV Player and it is SO SO GOOD); last year's BBC version of Les Miserables; The Tudors; Versailles; Poldark; Outlander ....

I liked Vikings too, although it took me a while to get into it.

Peaky Blinder is very highly-rated, although I thought the last series totally jumped the shark ..

North and South if you can find it?

It's been out for years but I just watched the other boleyn girl and really liked it.

North's. D South Richard Armitage version

Middlemarch, Brideshead revisited, Jane Eyre, Charles Sickens and Jane Austen adaptations.

Charles Dickens 🙄

Ooh. I've remembered another one. Indian summers. Set in the 1930s in India, pre-partition. There are only 2 series and it's fab. Julie Walters is in it.

I recently discovered A Place to Call Home (Australian post WW2) which is brilliant.

Cranford was on iPlayer very recently because I rewatched the whole thing over lockdown.

Whatsit. Thingy. Got Gene Hunt in it...

and a train

Cranford! that's the one. Really enjoyed that.

Sanditon was terrible. If you like hate-watching sub-Austen, you'll love it.

@trumpalumpa

North's. D South Richard Armitage version

Yes yes I came on hear to say this. OMG thinking about it gives me the flutters!

*here ffs

Picnic at Hanging Rock was well-received though I can't really comment as I only saw bits of it from the other room (and got it irretrievably confused with Picnic at Dripping Rock and have Natalie Dormer as Madge Bettany stuck in my head).

Dickensian.

Came on to say North and South, see others have recommended

Lark Rise to Candleford

Lark Rise to Candleford was a bit soapish but has Ben Miles in period costume (and Brendan Coyle, just realised).

Gah! that's twice I've cross-posted and sounded like an echo

And this time I am echoing - yes, Dickensian. And War and Peace, which was on at the same time and has the same actress in it.

I've just discovered "A place to call home" too and been binge watching it. Its easy going but with good storylines . I'm on season 3 and just hope I can get all the seasons online somewhere. Not sure how I missed it before.

Spanish Princess - Starzplay !

Reign, the tudors on Netflix

@merryhouse

Gah! that's twice I've cross-posted and sounded like an echo

Rather than a cross post, I thought you were specially replying to my suggestion

I’ve just finished watching Edward VII. It’s on YouTube, 13 episodes.

Made in the 70’s, incredible starry cast/acting. Very much recommend!

Persuasion from 1994 (I think) is my all time favourite. And Middlemarch from around the same time. Jane Eyre version with Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson is the best one. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. North & South. All the Hardys: Tess, Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude, Mayor of Casterbridge. War & Peace. If you want sthg not based on a classic novel we enjoyed Taboo, and Outlander is highly entertaining and absorbing if you're up for 5 seasons.

Gentlemen Jack.
Best series I've seen in ages.