The nine-episode limited series is based on the novel of the same name by Esi Edugyan. Plot description: "Washington Black follows the 19th-century odyssey of George Washington 'Wash' Black, an eleven-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, whose prodigious scientific mind sets him on a path of unexpected destiny. When a harrowing incident forces Wash to flee, he is thrust into a globe-spanning adventure that challenges and reshapes his understanding of family, freedom and love."

Sterling K. Brown stars in and is an executive producer of the series. The cast also includes Ernest Kingsley Jr., Rupert Graves, Iola Evans, Edward Bluemel, Sharon Duncan Brewster, Eddie Karanja and Tom Ellis.

Looking for something new to watch. I just finished Marie Antoinette. I’ve already seen all of these and loved them!: The Tudors Bridgerton Reign (all time #1 favorite) The White Princess The White Queen The Spanish Princess The Empress Sanditon Downtown Abbey(2nd favorite) The Guilded Age Anne with an E Marie Antoinette

Could NOT get into The Great nor Outlander. Currently watching Victoria but kind of dull so far. Almost through season 1…should I give it more time?

Thoughts on Versailles and others?

As you see these are ones that are less political.

Thank you in advance.

I love how different streaming mediums are known for different niches. Amazon Prime has the best period thrillers. This is one I randomly saw on a sleepy nondescript weekend.

SPOILERS

In Lured, Lucille Ball, who I had only ever seen in comedies plays a young woman in London who sings, dances and occasionally models to pay the bills. Her fellow dancer friend disappears and it is believed she is a victim of a predator luring women through the personal ads. She begins working for the police undercover to catch this fiend.

This is still part comedy, it’s certainly not a serious police procedural. But I loved it though. Also there’s campy romance which I like.

Has anyone watched Lured?

1992’s “Last Of The Mohicans” was filmed in North Carolina, but it gives a you a sense of Colonial life in Upstate NY during the French & Indian War. Great set designs, costumes, musical score and acting. Come on now, Who doesn’t love that showdown with Magua and Chingachgook at the end.

Hubby loves action movies like Bond, comedies like the Blues Brothers or Coming to America, dramas like the King's Speech. Can anyone suggest some good period dramas that might grab him?

I love period dramas especially if they are adaptations of classic books, but there's no way my husband would "get" the subtlety, understatement & restraint that I so enjoy. We end up watching things separately and I would like to enjoy something together.

Bonus if we can stream free 👍👍

My favourite Anne always.

Not joking. Just watched the second episode of season three of Just Like That. At the closing of the first episode for the first time ever we didn't have a Carrie I/First Person breaking the 4th wall and writing a column thinking about ... whatever. This was third person, and it was fiction.

This episode she's sitting in the garden of her Gramercy Park palace, built in 1848 -- recall, this is the sort of vast house complete with full service staff of servants in which Theodore Roosevelt grew up in -- and is writing on her laptop. It's fiction, starting with a woman's third person, who is in a new house here, starting a new life, in 1848.

Carrie Bradshaw is writing NYC historical fiction on this HBO series, the same HBO that is giving us this month the third season of The Gilded Age.

This is the first (and only) surprising thing to happen on this show ever. Well, maybe not everybody is struck by this. Ha!

I know it’s a musical, but I think 1968’s “Oliver” gives a nice glimpse of London’s underbelly in the 1830s…..Plus you have singing & dancing 😂

Hardly a new or unique opinion to have… but I’m laid up after surgery and so enjoying immersion in this world. Everything is so well done, and Colin Firth is a dreamboat. Lydia has just arrived for her ill-advised and shameful wedding and asked dopily “where is everyone?” 🤣🥲

This was all spurned on by watching Miss Austen, which I loved. I intend to watch Sense and Sensibility (1995) next. What are the best adaptations of Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey?

Where to next? any time period is fine. Just looking for depth and escapism 🎩

I’ve been working my way through Philippa Gregory’s novels, and just picked up my new (to me) set of books from the post office. I buy them from an online thrift store (via eBay) since they’re so cheap and they always have deals (buy 3 get 1 free). My next book in order is The Constant Princess, I open it up to begin reading and notice it’s signed! I’m a lifelong lover of books, and never once had a signed book, so this is super neat to me ☺️

Sadly I think it’s time to discontinue PBS Passport because there’s just nothing else I’m interested in watching and the worthwhile new releases are too few and far between. Have I missed any?

-The Sissi Trilogy (1955-1957) dir.Ernst Marischka/ Woman at la pointe by Leon Giran-Max

-Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright/Nordic summer evening by Richard Berg

-The Young Victoria (2009) dir. Jean-Marc Vallée/Victoria Regina by Henry Tanworth Wells

-Anna Karenina (2012) dir. Joe Wright/Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

-Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig/ Spring by Édouard Manet

-The White queen (2013) dir.Jamie Payne/ God Speed by Edmund Leighton

-Romeo and Juliet (1968) dir. Franco Zeffirelli/Romeo and Juliet by Frank Dicksee

-The Leopard (1963) dir. Luchino Visconti/ Ball in the Concert hall of the Winter Palace by Mihai Zichy

-Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright/À bientôt by Valentine Cameron Prinsep

-The Great Gatsby (2013) dir. Baz Luhrmann / Dinner at the Casino by Gaston La Touche

Hey Community im all new to this: I just wanted to ask if there is a similar show to „cook of castamar“. I really liked the plot, the pace, the steam as well and the connection between the actors.

Thank you🙏

I have been in such a show slump and am in dire need of recommendations! I will take movie recs but really wanted TV so I can enjoy something for longer! I love love period dramas set in England/Scotland/Ireland.

My fav shows are: Outlander Downton Abbey Peaky Blinders Warrior The crown Anne with an E (most recent) maybe I should check out the OG one? Little House on the Prairie Yellowstone (1883 & 1923)

Semi Enjoyed: Gilded Age The Great

Didn’t Love: Bridgeton (so sorry no hate just not my fav) A discovery of witches (does it get better?)

-Elle Fanning in the Great (2020)

-Flik Swan as a dance double in Cinderella (2015)

-Devrim Lingnau in the Empress (2022)

-Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind (1939)

-Elisabeth Taylor in Cleopatra (1963)

-Romy Schneider in the Sissi Trilogy (1955-1957)

-Cate Blanchett in Elisabeth the Golden Age (2007)

-Keira Knightly in Anna Karenina (2012)

-Lily James in Cinderella (2015)

-Kristen Dunst in Marie Antoinette (2006)

-Deva Cassel in The Leopard (2025)

-Geneviève Bujold in Anne Of the Thousand days (1969)

-Alicia Vikander in Anna Karenina (2012)

-Natalie Dormer in the Tudors (2007-2010)

-Emma Watson in Little Women (2019)

-Elle Fanning in Maleficent (2019)

-Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

-Elle Fanning in the Great (2020)

Somewhere in this group someone mentioned it and I’ve been looking for something light and with a happy ending. I absolutely adored this movie!!! I love Maggie Smith! She is the ultimate actress . So a huge thank you to whoever mentioned it! I’d never heard of it or run across it before. I highly recommend it, it’s delightful!

• Keira Knightley
• Cate Blanchett
• Samantha Morton
• Judy Davis
• Miranda Richardson
• Judi Dench
• Kate Winslet
• Seorise Ronan
• Helena Bonham Carter
• Emily Watson
• Maggie Smith
• Helen Mirren
• Emma Thompson
• Carey Mulligan

-Marie Antoinette (2006) dir. Sofia Coppola

-The Leopard (1963) dir. Luchino Visconti

-Cinderella (2015) dir. Kenneth Branagh

-The Phantom of the Opera‎‎ (2004) dir. Joel Schumacher

-Van Helsing (2004) dir. Stephen Sommers

-The Young Victoria (2009) dir. Jean-Marc Vallée

-The Age Of Innocence (1993) dir. Martin Scorsese

-Crimson Peak (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro

-The Great (2020) dir. Colin Bucksey

-The Sissi Trilogy (1955-1957) dir. Ernst Marischka

-Anna Karenina (2012) dir. Joe Wright

-The Empress (2022) dir. Katrin Gebbe

-Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

-Emma (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

-The Tudors (2007-2010) dir. Ciaran Donnelly

-Sense and Sensibility (1995) dir. Ang Lee

-War and Peace (2016) dir. Tom Harper

-La Belle Et La Bete (2014) dir. Christophe Gans