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One of the most impressive things about Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light is how ponderous it is. (That's a compliment, by the way.) Everything about this show is both deliberate and incredibly slow-moving, all the better to underscore just how volatile and ever-changing this particular sliver
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It's a new decade on Call the Midwife, and with that comes new issues. We rejoin the nuns of Nonnatus House and the midwives in the spring of 1970, only a few short months after the events of the double Christmas episode. Trixie (Helen George) is back in
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Because of the vagaries of the spring schedule, April is a funny time at PBS Masterpiece, programing-wise. It's either jam-packed with premieres and finales because everything is three or four episodes long, or it gets skipped altogether because the March premieres fell on the late side of the
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Get out your dancing shoes because it's officially 1970 in Poplar. The doctors, nuns, nurses, and midwives of Call the Midwife enter the new decade in the upcoming Season 14. While the new decade brings medical advancements, it also brings more complicated politics and new enemies for Nonnatus
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Historical accuracy in historical dramas is always a delicate subject, and audiences can and will take offense at what they perceive as inaccuracies or anachronisms. Here is a short selection of what people have objected to so far (let the pearl-clutching commence) since Wolf Hall debuted in 2015: Kate Phillips
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Thanks to the oddities of PBS scheduling, the second season of Lucy Worsley Investigates has aired sporadically throughout the last three months. We reviewed the first two episodes when they aired in January 2025, and with the final episodes now out, we’re back to wrap up the season. The
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Our long international literary adaptation nightmare is over. Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, and Kate Phillips are back on our screens for the next six weeks, and while a great many things are not remotely all right with either the worlds of Tudor England or the present day, at least we
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When we last left Versailles in Season 1 of Marie Antoinette, the king and queen were on top of the world, with Antoinette (Emilia Schüle) finally giving birth to the dauphin. Sadly, that pinnacle will pretty much be their last. This season will be all about the different forces and
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It's been a decade since Wolf Hall first graced our screens. In the intervening years, we've seen plenty of takes on Tudor England, from the somewhat faithful (Becoming Elizabeth) to the stridently feminist (The White Princess, The Spanish Princess, Firebrand) and the downright fantastical (My Lady
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Wolf Hall is, in many ways, the Platonic ideal of what a period drama is supposed to be and do. Sumptuous to look at, gloriously dense, unapologetically intellectual, and made with remarkable attention to period-accurate details, the six-part drama featured an all-star cast of British heavy hitters and racked up
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Long-time public television fans will probably have picked up by now that, no matter what happens in a given year, there is always one guaranteed Shakespeare production that airs on Great Performances in May as the TV season draws close. Most years, it comes via a broadcast of whatever show
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Marie Antoinette sought to paint the much-maligned monarch in a new light – as a likeable, sympathetic figure that history has marred through a misogynistic lens. Far from the poster child for excess and out-of-touch aristocracy, we meet Antoinette (Emilia Schüle) when she is just a teenager. At fourteen years old,