13 thoughts on “The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco (2018)

  1. Not available here yet. But a local PBS channel is showing Nicolas Le Floch, a late 17th-c investigator. Can’t quite pin down the time period.

  2. The first Bletchley Circle series on on my watchlist. Hope This edition shows up on Amazon Prime.

  3. There’s a cocktail party in the 2nd (?) episode with some very pretty and colourful dresses.

  4. I’m watching it on Britbox thru my Amazon Prime membership. What I’ve seen so far is so nuanced, thought-out and begs for more. I’m hooked after the first 3 episodes. Well, they had me at the first one. I really love the cast. Everyone is so perfect. I’m wondering when Millie is going to discover her cousin, Edward, is Gay.

    The three new women are so fully developed. Iris is discovering that she denied so much how brilliant she is was a disservice to her family, her race and finally herself that she won’t be doing it in the future. Even her military husband knows this.

    And Hailey is just as brilliant.

    I really do appreciate how they are integrating the coming Viet Nam issue, racial and gender equality.

    Hope for a second season.

    1. Yes, yes, yes. I love these characters so hard! And the socio-economic setting feels very historically accurate, it’s done with subtly & grace, not heavy-handed. Excellent writing & acting!

  5. Hope I can get my paws on it soon. Re: hats. When I was a little girl in early 60s San Francisco, I had to wear a hat and gloves to go downtown for lunch with my grandmother. SF was still pretty formal, so, yes, hats.

    1. Exactly — hats are the only thing missing. Sometimes they show up on characters, but it should be more consistent, & you’d see them in the background on most everyone. I’m guessing the production just didn’t have the budget; pretty common to not get all the accessories right, alas.

  6. thanks for this article! I went and binged the entirety of the original series yesterday, I loved it!

  7. The pink cornelli work top that Iris is wearing in the photo above is very 1949 – Sears put out a lot of styles like this in that year. I did a bunch of research on a particular outfit being worn in a court photo from that year and found the very suit! This makes sense though as I think fashion kinda levelled out after the war and things lasted longer.

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