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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.
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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