PERIOD PIECE DRAMAS
An Exciting Trip to the Past
If the term transports your mind to a faraway time with big puffy dresses and flowery languages,then you might be on the right track. Period piece films set long ago are also sometimes referred to as costume dramas due to the complicated nature of and emphasis placed on historically-accurate clothing.
What is a Period Piece?
Period pieces are story set in the past rather than a story with a contemporary or futuristic setting. Whether it is the wild west, Victorian England, the turn of the century, the great depression or as recently as a decade or two ago, the best period pieces excel at stories in which the setting is crucial to the drama unfolding.
Some classic Period Pieces
The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1910s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to middle-class backgrounds.
In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl names Beth reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction. As Beth rises to the top of the chess world and reaps the financial benefits of her success, her drug and alcohol dependency worsens.
Bridgerton is an American historical fiction-romance streaming television series created by Chris Van Dusen for Netflix. Based on the book series by Julia Quinn, it is Shondaland's first scripted show for Netflix.
The plot of the first season begins shortly after the end of the war in 1945. After serving at the front as a hospital nurse, Claire Randall spends her second honeymoon in Scotland with her husband Frank. Upon entering a mystical stone circle, she is thrown back to the year 1743 and now has to adapt to the completely changed circumstances.
