Debuting on CBC and CBC Gem on Monday, February 21 at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT) Inspired by real events and set in the roar of the 1920s, THE PORTER (8×60) follows the journeys of an ensemble of characters who hustle, dream, cross borders and pursue their ambitions in the fight for liberation – on and …
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Julian Fellowes’s The Gilded Age
What Is It About? At long last, Julian Fellowes’s original period drama set during the Gilded Age will premiere on HBO, January 24, 2022. The Gilded Age is set in 1882, against the backdrop of New York City’s transformation into the center of arts, culture, technology, finance, and high society. When Marian Brook moves to …
PERIOD DRAMA ALERT: Passing (2021)
It seems fitting that the lead up to the 100th year celebrations of the Harlem Renaissance (more accurately known as the Negro Renaissance–more on that soon on EP) begins with an adaptation of the one of defining novels of the period: Nella Larsen’s Passing. Published by Knopf in 1929, Larsen’s second and final novel follows …