Sophie has been steeped in British TV since her parents let her watch the Jeremy Brett adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. She loves mysteries, espionage thrillers, documentaries, and costume dramas. You can find her on all the platforms as @sophiebiblio.
Netflix
Our streaming services are conducting a long-term love affair with a genre I’ll call Let’s Put A Female Leader Under Duress! You know the qualities I’m talking about: A competent, often powerful woman is going about her critical business, and finds herself in the middle of a
Costume Design
Welcome once again, friends, to Carrie Coon’s Costume Corner, where we look closely at the costume design of The Gilded Age and think out loud about design inspiration, as well as how they reflect and highlight various character relationships. It's been one of this site's
Apple TV
O, The Buccaneers! Your bounty of logic-defying, totally absorbing, and utterly bonkers plot developments and out-of-character character beats is a boon to exclamation point-laden group chats and comments sections across the internet. Your first season had its fair share of forehead-smack-inducing moments, but for Season 2, you’ve gone into
Costume Design
Welcome back to Carrie Coon’s Costume Corner, where we take a costume design enthusiast’s look at the most exuberant, over-the-top, and memorable looks designed by Kasia Walicka Maimone and her team for the cast of The Gilded Age. If you’re new here, prior coverage of Season 3
FX
Welcome To Wrexham, FX’s little sports docuseries that could, returned to our screens for a triumphant fourth season this spring. The Emmy-winning show, focused on the quixotic quest of a historic Welsh football club to reclaim its lost glory, is now in the position of being an elder statesman
HBO & HBO Max
Greetings, fellow Gilded Age viewers! (Is there an Internet-approved name for us? Are we Gild Members? Members of the Mamie Fish Appreciation Society? Geegaw Gapers? I’m open to nominations!) HBO’s historical soap is notable for many things – Broadway stars letting it rip every scene they’re in, its
PBS
And so we come to the end of the beginning; conveniently, also the name of this episode, which suits our final exploration of the most lavish and interesting costume design moments in Marie Antoinette’s second season. This episode features many reliable old friends I’ve discussed before, including Provence’
PBS
The two penultimate episodes of Marie Antoinette’s second season don’t feature much novelty in the costumes. However, what they lack in that area, they make up for in pure drama, thanks to Cardinal Rohan’s great-aunt, Madame de Rohan-Soubise, and Ol’ Sourpuss himself, King Louis’s brother, Provence.
Apple TV
Carême wants you to think that it’s a show about the self-invention of France’s first celebrity chef, who was also a scruffy, yet gentlemanly, amateur spy of surprisingly great consequence in the Napoleonic era. It isn’t not that, but this show’s engine runs on sexiness, and
PBS
Wolf Hall has concluded, long live Wolf Hall in all its iterations! The final two episodes of the miniseries present viewers with a steep downward slope for our equally flawed and compelling protagonist as one thing after another goes wrong for him. Anna of Cleves’s arrival and all too
PBS
Welcome to the mid-season report on the best costumes for Marie Antoinette’s second season. Personal and political machinations from just about every character continue to unfold, including the Queen’s public image, marriage, and extra-marital relationship; the fortunes of various publicly loyal but privately threatening courtiers; and of course,
PBS
Mirrors! Lights! Camera! Action! It’s time for another spin through the lookbooks of Wolf Hall's second season, The Mirror and The Light, in search of the most remarkable costumes. This week's column will cover Episodes 2 through 4 ("Obedience," "Defiance," and