If you’re of the (correct) mindset that there can never be too many period dramas, you’ll be excited to check out Lisa Quijano Wolfinger’s new series Mercy Street, based in Civil War-era Alexandria, Virginia.
Described as “Gone With the Wind meets MASH” the PBS series is, the Los Angeles Times reports, “inspired by real events and, in a novel twist for a Civil War series, features two female protagonists who are volunteer nurses at the hospital — Mary Phinney, a staunch Northern abolitionist and Emma Green, a genteel Southern belle from a wealthy slave-owning family.”