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My Mother and Other Strangers is a very different beast, slow moving and graceful, there is none of Poldark’s derring-do or bodice ripping. And much as I miss Aidan and Eleanor, it makes for a ...
- Ben Dowell
Stream Now. Stream My Mother and Other Strangers on Masterpiece on Peacock. Watchlist. "My Mother and Other Strangers" is written and created by Barry Devlin. Set in 1943, during World War II, the ...
- Hattie Morahan
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- The Bletchley Circle
- The Man in The High Castle
- Home Fires
- Five Came Back
- Outlander
- The Mighty Eighth
This series takes place in the immediate aftermath of the war, as a group of female former codebreakers forced to keep their experiences secret reunite in order to hunt down and stop a local murderer. In the second season, they must prove the innocence of one of their members. The show has been over for a few years, but it's worth catching up.
The Man In The High Castle presents an alternate history of the post-WWII era in which the Axis Powers were able to defeat the Allies, and the United States is divided between German and Japanese rule. It's not exactly historically plausible, but it's an frightening thought experiment.
Just before the war, in a small English town, everyday friendships and disagreements give way to the dramatic changes when most of the men in town leave for military service. Like Bletchley, the series is female-focused.
This documentary explores how the American military service of five famous directors (John Ford, William Wyler, George Stevens, John Huston, and Frank Capra) changed the course of Hollywood film forever. Without the time they spent serving in the military, the doc argues, they would have never developed their visual sensibilities or their cinematic...
Claire's postwar life may only be featured in a few episodes per season, but her wartime nursing experience informs the character's behavior when she travels back several hundred years and falls in love with a Scottish leader. Both her confidence that she deserves to be treated fairly and her era-inappropriate medical knowledge have come into play ...
This series hasn't premiered yet — in fact, it doesn't even have a premiere date. But it's the third miniseries collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks (after Band of Brothers and The Pacific), and while there are some unconfirmed reports suggesting half a billion dollars has been spent to save a reportedly troubled production, I still...
- Kayla Hawkins
A school teacher and mother of three, Rose Coyne, finds herself trapped in a love triangle with her husband, Michael, and a USAAF liaison officer, Capt. Dreyfuss. Buy My Mother and Other Strangers ...
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- November 8, 2016
- Hattie Morahan
The beguilingly slow-moving Second World War drama has captured the heart of Ben Dowell. And it looks like Hattie Morahan’s Rose feels the same way about Aaron Staton’s US airman...
- Ben Dowell
May 18, 2020 · Updated December 22, 2020. The five-part Masterpiece series opens with an older man’s voiceover recollecting the summer of 1943, a time when his mother fancied a man other than his father, and ...
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My Mother and Other Strangers, written by Barry Devlin, is beautifully filmed, and, like so many Masterpiece productions, it certainly offers transport to another time and place. Full Review | Jun ...
