I'm mostly using this thread to look up recommendations - for quite a while I didn't watch any TV shows, then I got super into Doctor Who, and er, there's a lot of Doctor Who. I'm not done yet. But it's showed me I do want to watch other TV shows as well, so I'm taking notes here. :-) But I am quite fond of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, a cheerful murder mystery series taking place in 1920s Australia, and making occasional references to events during WWI in Europe (where the heroine was during the war). I do find the time period fascinating, and also, Miss Fisher's wardrobes are to die for, and there are awesome female characters who support one another.
Also in the 1920s vein, I recently started watching a new Spanish series called La otra mirada, I think translated as The Other View, which takes place in 1920s Sevilla in Spain, in a prestigious private girls' school where a new young director wants to change things after taking over the school from her traditionalist mother, and a scandalous new teacher (she even wears trousers!) arriving and basically turning everything upside down, while also being implicated in political intrigue... I've only watched the first couple of episodes, but I'm utterly hooked - I'm really fascinated by boarding school settings, and 1920s Europe is such a delicious time for everything being in turmoil, and it's full of awesome female characters, and it looks utterly gorgeous, and I basically suspect I'm going to watch all of it during the next two or three weeks.
Way, way long back I used to be really into Hornblower. I've also generally enjoyed various BBC miniseries of classics, e.g. Jane Austen's works.
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Also in the 1920s vein, I recently started watching a new Spanish series called La otra mirada, I think translated as The Other View, which takes place in 1920s Sevilla in Spain, in a prestigious private girls' school where a new young director wants to change things after taking over the school from her traditionalist mother, and a scandalous new teacher (she even wears trousers!) arriving and basically turning everything upside down, while also being implicated in political intrigue... I've only watched the first couple of episodes, but I'm utterly hooked - I'm really fascinated by boarding school settings, and 1920s Europe is such a delicious time for everything being in turmoil, and it's full of awesome female characters, and it looks utterly gorgeous, and I basically suspect I'm going to watch all of it during the next two or three weeks.
Way, way long back I used to be really into Hornblower. I've also generally enjoyed various BBC miniseries of classics, e.g. Jane Austen's works.