It’s no secret ’round these parts that I love films and television set in the midcentury almost as much as I love the films made in the midcentury. Mad Men, plus cancelled-too-soon series like Manhattan, Bomb Girls, Pan Am, and Good Girls Revolt have been among my favorite TV creations in recent years. Speaking of Good Girls Revolt, I’ve been pretty mad at Amazon for … Continue reading Period television: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Based on Lynn Povich’s book of the same title, Amazon’s original series Good Girls Revolt tells the story of a stagnant environment in a time of social change: the newsroom workplace in New York, 1969. America was experiencing a cultural revolution, but the women working as researchers for the country’s largest news magazines were less lucky, putting in most of the work but receiving none … Continue reading Period television: Good Girls Revolt, Season 1
Every now and then I cover period films here on TMP. I also love discovering and watching new television series set in the past, so when I saw an article about WGN America’s latest original programming endeavor, the 1940s-set Manhattan, I had to check it out. This is WGN’s second original series to premiere, the first being Salem, which premiered in April and has been … Continue reading Period television: Manhattan
