box-set costume drama recommendations

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Parietal · 08/03/2015 21:53

my elderly parents have just 'discovered' box sets and are catching up on the last 5 years of TV. What would you recommend I give them for a birthday present? They like politics and costume drama (with good acting) but never watch crime. So far they've enjoyed House of Cards and Downton Abbey. What next?

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Magmatic80 · 09/03/2015 08:02

Jane Eyre, but the version with Ruth Wilson. Amazing! Only 4 episodes so might not count as a box set though..

Purplehonesty · 09/03/2015 08:09

The good wife is excellent - politics/law drama

Bleak house is very good for costume drama

IAmAPaleontologist · 09/03/2015 08:10

The Jane Austen and the Elizabeth Gaskell ones are great value. The Gaskell one would be good, it has North and South and wives and daughters but also has Cranford which is a nice, easy going collection of stories rather than a huge long dramatisation of a novel. Obviously it is from a book, cells different though!

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Parietal · 09/03/2015 22:34

thanks for the suggestions. very useful.

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