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A shocking portrait, an open marriage, and a heist, oh my! Marie Antoinette’s fourth episode, “The Pursuit of Happiness,” tackles quite a bit of drama and intrigue. Hold onto your bustles; there’s a lot to address! The public unveiling of the queen’s new portrait challenges her modernity
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Historically speaking, Thomas Cromwell is not a man who is easy to know. While many historical records of his public actions survive, we know relatively little about his private life. It's why the Wolf Hall franchise (both the television series and Hilary Mantel's trilogy) is so
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Our Midwife trainees, Rosalind (Natalie Quarry) and Joyce (Renee Bailey), won't be forgetting this week on Call the Midwife anytime soon. The junior nurses each had their hands full with separate cases that tested all of their patience and decorum. Rosalind had to bite her tongue when a
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Walking with Dinosaurs was an ambitious series when it premiered on the BBC in 1999; at the time, Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) was still a new technology, and creating lifelike dinosaurs was the province of big-budget blockbusters like Jurassic Park, not public television. However, the show took the U.K.
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Wolf Hall’s spectacular settings are one of the joys of the series, both in the 2015 original and in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. However, viewers may wonder if every historic building used in the series is correct to the 1530s. The answer is no, that wouldn’
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After the queen’s indiscretions, Marie Antoinette’s third episode, “Treacherous Legacy,” finds Antoinette pregnant and questioning the paternity of her unborn child. She’s also trying to purchase the Saint-Cloud property to secure a safe place and legacy for herself and her children should something happen to the king.
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As Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light reaches its halfway point, being Thomas Cromwell isn't as easy as it used to be. Sure, the former blacksmith's son has never been as powerful as he is at this precise moment, with the king's ear
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Nothing says the consequences of the free love era like a Gonorrhea outbreak. The nuns and midwives of Call the Midwife had their hands full when a first-time mother who only had one sexual partner came in with a case of Gonorrhea. The search for the outbreak's source
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The ladies of Nonnatus House cannot catch a break on Call the Midwife. They finally saved the house from financial ruin in Season 13 and now own the property outright, but in Season 14, they set up a battle for the upkeep funds of the charity. We got a little
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ITV's Grantchester has been a fan favorite on PBS' Masterpiece since the series first debuted in the U.S. in the winter of 2015. However, the show has been a slow-burn hit, spending its first few seasons as "the other summer mystery series" that aired
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From the start, the second season of Marie Antoinette holds a smattering of small victories and an overabundance of significant-to-catastrophic losses, but everyone sure looks gorgeous through it all. We could publish daily close-reads of nearly every scene’s visual riches, and if there were considerably less TV to cover,
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Marie Antoinette’s “A Poison Pen” is packed with illicit affairs and intricate scheming. The episode’s title refers to Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais and his new play, The Marriage of Figaro, the premiere performance of which put another nail in the coffin for the king and queen of France.