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Review: ‘Mercy Street,’ a Civil War Hospital Drama on PBS
This six-episode Civil War series shares Downton Abbey's style: genteel melodrama, talky, sentimental and lightly comic, with the occasional action sequence (an escape, a bomb plot) to spice things up.
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I really wanted to like this show but I couldn't make it past the third episode. My biggest issue was Josh Radnor as an actor never sold me on being a Civil War surgeon. I felt like I was watching Ted Mosby play a Civil War surgeon.
Even with the beard? ;-)