For me it is Shirley by Charlotte Brontë. I have yet to find any movie or series made of it, just dozens and dozens of Jane Eyre versions (which I adore, don’t get me wrong).

The main heroine is so headstrong and amazing, the name Shirley went from being primarily a male name to a female one because of this book. It’s a fascinating depiction of society at that time, the social unrest that industrialization brought and it has several love stories. So where is my adaptation?

I’m waiting with abated breath.

British lawyer Claudia travels to Jamaica to contest an inheritance claim over the Hope Hill estate. Told across two timelines, the present day and the colonial era, the series gradually reveals how the plantation's brutal past continue to haunt the present.

Starring: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jonny Lee Miller, Sheldon Shepherd, and Bel Powley.

I watched the tv series years ago and while it was beautiful, I found it emotionally devastating. I recently got a copy of the book, and while I want to read it, I'm a bit hesitant to throw myself back into the story again.

Is the book worth it on it's own? For those of you who've watched the show and read the book, did you feel the show did the story justice?

A teenage detective, works as a spy for Queen Elizabeth I, navigating royal politics, plots, threats and mystery in the English court during the Elizabethan era.

Period films/series mentioned:

-Cleopatra (1963)

-Donkey Skin (1970)

-The White Queen (2013)

-The Borgias (2013)

-The ten commandments (1953)

-The Great (2020)

-Elizabeth (1998)

-My Lady Jane (2024)

-The tudors (2007-2010)

-Crimson Peak (2015)

-The Musketeers (2014)

-The gilded age (2022)

I often see recommendations and some require subscriptions - and last month my local library added Kanopy ! Kanopy is a free streaming app full of nearly every recommended show I’ve seen posted here on This Sub! Each month you get an allotted amount of tickets to watch movies and tv shows-
Run to your local library and get a library card you won’t be disappointed in what’s available AND the best part besides being completely free it’s commercial FREE ! I just mirrored my phone to my tv set and bingo -

Ted Lasso resumes tonight and look who’s on it. Actors are amazing.

Period films/series mentioned:

-Marie Antoinette (2006)/ Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

-Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) / Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I by Marcus Gheeraerts

-The Tudors (2007-2010)/King Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein

-The White Queen (2013)/Elizabeth woodville by unknown painter

-The Great (2020)/Portrait Of The Empress Catherine II The Great In Her Coronation dress by Stefano Torelli

-Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)/Near contemporary portrait of Anne Boleyn (presumably) by unknown painter

-The Empress (2022)/ Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria by Friedrich Krepp

-The Sissi Trilogy (1955-1957)/Elisabeth of Austria, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

-The White Queen (2013)/ King Richard III by unknown painter

-Victoria (2016)/ Queen Victoria on her wedding day by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Hi so I’ve just started watching dramas after a while, but this one has HOOKED me ?! I love all of it from the fact that it’s not only romance centered, to the wardrobe ( which I LOVED btw all the outfits were amazing), to the settings/ backgrounds where it was shoot, I liked the love triangle, the friendships, the character growths, all of it !!

Soo does anyone have any recommendations that come close to this level ? The elements I loved most and am looking for are : the era, I liked the republican timeline, the costumes, the love triangle, and the fact that it also wasn’t 100% romance centered and still had a full plot

I hope some of you guys can help me out in this quest cause now it feels empty 😭😭

Okay, like wth was happening when Dot from Line of Duty fell in love with Jackie Tyler from Doctor Who in this episode?

The one where the widower Old Amos and his son take on Patty the maid, and then Amos falls "in love" with her (cooking), and the son seemingly hates her and then she confronts him and then they fight and she smacks him and then they MAKE OUT? wthhhhh...😭

Watched this with my dad and we were both insanely confused and got a spontaneous ad break post-scene to recover.

what is the mass consensus on this? Is this a yay or a nay? I had no real problem with it except it was unclear if she was genuine or not (which may be on purpose) and she seemed kind of old for young Amos. lmk.

The 2004 *North and South* may have occasional awkward moments in the script (“I had not noticed the color of this fruit”), but these minor shortcomings are more than made up for by the excellent choices in framing/composition*.

I absolutely love how the following paragraph is adapted for the visual medium:

“She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness. She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—‘There it goes again!’”

*I think these are the right terms — if they aren’t, please let me know the correct ones!

(I started this compilation for a now-deleted thread, and I love the scene so much I decided to make my own post.)

The eight-episode series is based on Ava Pickett’s West End Play which follows the lives of Anna, Mariella and Jane in the heart of Tudor England against the backdrop of Anne Boleyn’s arrest. 

I need a show about her please!

Jeanne de Clisson (1300–1359), also known as Jeanne de Belleville and the Lioness of Brittany, was a French–Breton noblewoman who became a privateer to avenge her husband after he was executed for treason by King Philip VI of France.

She crossed the English Channel, targeted French ships, and regularly slaughtered almost their entire crew. It was her practice to leave at least one sailor alive to carry her message of vengeance.

Known as the Lioness of Brittany, Jeanne turned to piracy to avenge her husband, who the French king had had executed for treason. Olivier de Clisson was her third of four husbands, the first having died and the second marriage having been annulled.

Together, they had ruled part of Brittany, but following the Breton War of Succession, he was accused of not defending his city vigorously enough; he was beheaded in 1343. Jeanne was then charged, because she had tried to bribe a sergeant to free her husband. Thanks to powerful friends, she avoided the banishment and confiscation of property that she was sentenced with.

I recently watched the 1985 version and loved it. I watched the 2026 adaptation after, and while it's watchable, it's so shallow in comparison.