Last week’s post garnered a lot of responses from readers about the historical shows they’re still salty about being cancelled before their time, so I figured I’d go ahead and ...

This film is set between between 1795 to 1799, according to costume designer Grace Snell, and the gowns really nail that silhouette. Edgar & Elinor. Photo by Szilveszter Mako / Vogue. Margaret. Photo ...

Color me surprised when I realized Magenta from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (one of my very favorite movies ever) showed up in several frock flicks I was reviewing! That sent me to IMDB where I ...

In my review earlier this week, I mentioned that the show was allegedly cancelled due to the fact that ITV received hundreds of complaints from viewers about its disturbing ...

Not having much ELSE exciting to watch, I did indeed continue watching the new Outlander spin-off/prequel, Blood of My Blood (2025), which just had its season finale. I did a deep-dive review of ...

We have MCM’s on Sense and Sensibility ‘s men, but wait, we haven’t done the ladies! With the new version coming out Very Soon, I thought it was time to compare the various iterations of Elinor ...

I just finished binge-watching the first three episodes of Marble Hall Murders (2026) starring Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan, and I went in not really knowing what to expect, or that this ...

English actress Anna Madeley was a reader suggestion, but a timely one as I just rewatched the 2008 Sense & Sensibility since I thought it needed a fuller review! Anyway! Madeley has ton a lot of ...

You asked for it, so here’s an occasional open thread to bitch about anything tangentially related to history, costume, movies, or TV shows! Or whatever else is on your mind right now. Note that URLs ...

This one doesn’t look very frocky, but the story is based news publisher William Randolph Hearst & covers the Spanish-American War in the 1890s & past the 1929 stock market crash.

I’m not sure why I have such warm and fuzzy feelings about British actor Alfred Molina, but I do! He started out on stage and then went on to add TV and film, and MANY of those productions have been ...