New readers should be made aware that, despite my lifelong study of Victorian literature,...
Eighteenth Century
Historical costume movies & TV set in the Georgian, Baroque, or Rocco era.
In honor of the series ending this summer in the U.K. and last month...
Is One Nation, One King (2018) the best movie ever? Probably not — it’s too...
Now that the trauma of watching Catherine the Great (2019) is over, and I’ve...
French film/stage director, actor, and writer Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) was a huge proponent of...
Guys. I didn’t hate this episode. I’m not saying I loved it, but the...
I got three-fourths of the way through Désirée (1954) before I realized it was based...
The woman we know as Empress Josephine of France was born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher...
If last week’s episode was summed up by “Oh God,” this week’s episode of...
Episode 2 of Catherine the Great (2019) can be summed up with this post I...