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Series Details & Credits
| PBS | Release Date: January 17, 2016 |
Summary:
Produced by Ridley Scott, the drama follows the lives of two Civil War nurses: Mary Phinney (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a New England widow working and Emma Green (Hannah James), a young southern belle, whose family's luxury Alexandria hotel has been turned into a Union Army hospital they both volunteer at.
Genre(s):
Drama
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Positive:
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Mixed:
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Jan 14, 2016
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Season 1 Review:
Subplots surrounding Green’s southern belle daughters, espionage and PTSD do little to move the series along and would’ve been better shortened or left on the cutting-room floor. That said, such distractions do little to dilute Mercy Street as the imperative Civil War narrative it truly is.
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Season 1 Review:
Trying to do justice to the stories of abolitionists, freed slaves, Confederate sympathizers, wounded warriors, their harried healers, and history itself is probably a too-tall order for the six episodes PBS envisions as a first season.
The series, though, isn't afraid to be entertaining, and it shouldn't have to be.
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Season 1 Review:
The characters are one-dimensional, so that you essentially know who they are within a minute or less, not least of all the spoiled-belle Confederate volunteer Emma Green (Hannah James), who’s straight outta “Gone With the Wind.” And the story lines about patients are didactic, there simply to provide the writers with EZ-to-read lessons about race, war, and medical progress.
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: January 17, 2016
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Season 1 Overview