r/PeriodDramas

A classic of Polish literature in an original contemporary reinterpretation in which love mixes with obsession and social status comes with a very high price. Stanisław, driven by ambition and blinded by desire to move up in the world tries to break into Warsaw’s high society and his fascination with Izabela becomes his obsession. Meanwhile very independent Izabela does everything she can to slip out of the narrow confines of aristocracy and redefine her place in a rapidly changing reality. The feeling that engulfs them is stretched between a chasm of class difference, the longing for freedom and the seductive power of wealth.

The six‑episode story, full of irony and secrets about ambition and class barriers is directed by Paweł Maślona (“Kos”) and the leading roles are played by Tomasz Schuchardt, Sandra Drzymalska, Dariusz Chojnacki and Jacek Braciak.

The series “The Doll” premieres September 16 - only on Netflix.

Hi everyone I was gifted a year of britbox. Can someone please recommend some shows besides the other Bennett sister. All recs welcome !!!

I am currently rewatching the 2015 show Versailles. I love the sets and costumes. Casting is good. I can't unsee George Blagden as Athelstan in Vikings but I think he does a good job at portraying Louis XIV. The historical accuracy is wanting but I think the writing makes up for it.

Anyone else watch this? Thoughts?

The abruptness of the ending just crashed my heart 😭

Any recommendations for similarly elegant movies / shows?

Thanks fam💙

Is it very violent? I've just finished watching "The Six Wives of Henry the VIII" (1970) so I wanted to watch the new version, but I'm wary of violence and gore.

I hope this is an ok place to ask this. Just finished the novel and I want to watch a few adaptations. Which ones are worth it?

I still haven’t watched that, but there’s so many good shows on there I’m in awe! The other Bennet sister was on my watch list for a long time. A woman of substance, I started watching and can’t stop, there’s so many amazing series there right now. Let me know what others I should watch during my month long subscription. It’s worth the 10.99!

I could not finish it. Found it gringe and corny, and acting was wooden. Was so disappointed after seeing so much hype about it. But as it is so well loved by so many I would like to hear why you liked it.

I would love to watch a new period drama, but I'm just not into the current fad of new ones. I just don't really get swept away into the past if the actors have iphone face, the music is current, the pacing is WAY too fast, the tone is "silly", the costumes are insane, and everything feels like a modern movie in past "fantasyland". If women wore bonnets and had their hair up all the time in that time period, they must in the movie/TV show, at least some of the time! The music in particular is really important to me to be close to authentic to the period, I really love when they play actual pieces (like on the piano) that were around the correct time. Oh and obviously beautiful sets, preferably shot in beautiful old authentic estates. Costume designers who actually research authentic designs of the time and don't deviate too much . . .

Any suggestions for me of new things to watch? To get the tone I'm after, some of my favorites (though not all in the 90s), are the Young Victoria, anything by Julian Fellowes, Brideshead Revisited, the Kings Speech, 2008 Sense and Sensibility. And obviously the OG, the top shelf, 95 Pride and Prejudice.

Also, any guesses when this current fad of bizzaro world period dramas will be over? I CAN NOT WAIT. Let's go back to more immersive, slower, more truly romantic ones. Full of beautiful and authentic costumes and set design.

I started watching this today and I’m up to episode 4. I’m really enjoying it and hope they’ll make a second season. Anyone else enjoying it?

I just finished the show, and I genuinely don't even know how to rate it because I was SO irritated watching it 😭 like I loved the ending i actually loved that Sybylla didn't choose Harry, didn't choose Frank, didn't choose anyone. That felt so right for her. She chose herself, her writing, her freedom, and honestly THAT is the ending I wanted for her.

But getting there??? Oh my god!!!!!.

I think what irritated me the most was Harry. I kept waiting for him to become this complex, interesting character that the show clearly wanted me to see, but I just... didn't. I genuinely don't understand what Syb saw in him for so long. This man literally LEFT HER. Point blank. And then she spends so much time waiting for him, writing for him, thinking about him from the beginning, she's constantly talking about how she doesn't believe in love and then when it comes to Harry, suddenly she's like "I'll wait for him." SORRY WHAT? 😭in my head Syb wouldn't do that I don't even care what his reason was for leaving at that point, he left and I just couldn't understand why the story wanted me to be so invested in whether he would come back there was this part where her mom said love means sacrificing everything for him and i was like wdym loser it made me think for a minute like syb would do it too for fkn Harry !

The Harry storyline was just WEIRD to me. I think I was expecting something more Little Women-ish something where i could actually understand why these two people were drawn to each other and feel invested in the romance instead so much of their relationship just made me frustrated.

And honestly, I liked Frank way more than I expected to. 😭 Their relationship actually made more sense to me. I liked the whole enemies to friends to lovers development between them. I could actually see how they got there, and I liked watching their relationship change but at the same time, I completely understand why she didn't choose him

Anw i loved the ending so much. She didn't choose Harry. She didn't choose Frank. She didn't suddenly decide that her life needed to revolve around a man. She chose herself and her writing i just wish I had enjoyed the journey to that conclusion more last ep was odd to me but ig it was part of her journey and how she came to understand why we should drop harry

Anyway i needed to get this out

Little Women is a must-watch because shows that there are more then a defined way jf hkw a girl grows up. It beautifully dismantles the idea that there is a "right" way for a girl to grow up. Instead, the movie shows that if a girl feels something deeply, that truth belongs to her at every stage of her life .It reminds us that there is no blueprint for what a woman "should" want. If you feel something deeply, own it

It encourages women to fully embrace their most vulnerable emotions—whether it’s jealousy, deep love, or the messy conflict of craving absolute freedom while still desiring connection.

And it really touching and so relatable when jo said

" Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty. I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for"