![]() ![]() I gobbled up Season 1 during Pandemic 1.0 and fell in love with the whole thing, particularly the performances by Elle Fanning, who believably transforms from a wide-eyed princess into a cunning empress, and Nicholas Hoult as her cretinous yet strangely likable husband, Peter III. That’s why I plan to catch up on “The Great,” Hulu’s aggressively anachronistic series about the young Catherine the Great. Better yet if it’s also irreverent and wickedly funny. Over the holidays, there’s nothing I enjoy more than hunkering down and watching a show with vast historical sweep, elaborate costumes, lots of sumptuous scenery and a wintry landscape. The series offers a new twist on “Oliver Twist”. Venus’ taxidermy shop, the Three Cripples (Bill Sikes’ favorite pub) and Honoria Barbary’s parlor. Scrooge meets Inspector Bucket (Stephen Rea) meets Fagin meets Miss Havisham in this murder mystery, where their lives intersect in Mr. The late Christopher Plummer portrays a perfectly sour and snarky Scrooge, while Jonathan Pryce is Dickens’ charming yet irresponsible father.Īnd in the dark, mysterious and thoroughly entertaining BBC series “Dickensian,” characters from multiple stories by the celebrated author converge for the first time in the same neighborhood of Victorian London. His creations (Fezziwig, Jacob Marley) then end up haunting him until he completes the book. In this witty tale of how “A Christmas Carol” came to be, the writer finds inspiration in the real-life folks of 1843 London, borrowing from their names and personality tics to conjure his fictional cast of characters. The 2017 Irish Canadian comedy film “The Man Who Invented Christmas” follows the thirtysomething Dickens (Dan Stevens) as he strives to overcome writer’s block and deliver another novella to his impatient publisher. Both my picks are alternate takes on the man of the season, Charles Dickens.
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