Period Piece TV Shows (
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Back in the day, these things really happened. Or really could have happened. The term, historical period piece (also historical, period, costume, and period piece) refers to a work set in an earlier time period. It is an informal crossover term that can apply to several genres and is often heard in the context of historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. A period piece may be as long and general as the middle ages or as limited as one decade, for example, the Roaring Twenties.

Mad Men

Men and their ads.

Manhattan

Everyone’s got the bomb in Manhattan.

Manual Para Señoritas

A romantic comedy set in 1880s Madrid, coinciding with the Alphonsine era and the Restoration period, depicting the social and cultural landscape of the time.

Manyū Hiken-chō

In Edo period of Japan, a clan known as the Manyuu had the ability of a sword strike that could shrink the size of a woman’s breasts.

Mapp and Lucia

The social bickering of a fictional Sussex town is rather boring.

Mapp and Lucia (2014)

The social rivalry between two women in the 1930s when Lucia rents Mapp’s house for the summer.

Marie Antoinette

Follows the famed queen Marie Antoinette, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.

Masters of Sex

Pioneering research into human sexuality always involves a few lesbians.

Mixed-ish

Bow’s parents, Paul and Alicia, are forced to move from a hippie commune to the suburbs in order to better provide for their family after the dissolution of their cult.

Mixte

1963, the arrival of girls in the all boys Voltaire high at the start of the school year is a turning point.

More Tales of the City

A sequel to Tales of the City, based on the same novel.

Mrs. America

The somewhat fictionalized story of conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly leading the fight against the Equal Rights Amendment movement during the 1970s.