2016
TV-14
PBS

2016
TV-14
PBS

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.

Created By: Lisa Quijano Wolfinger, David Zabel

2016
TV-14
PBS

2016
TV-14
PBS

Mercy Street

Name: Mercy Street
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2016-01-17
Rating: 61
Cast: McKinley Belcher III, Suzanne Bertish, Norbert Leo Butz, Gary Cole, Hannah James

Season 1 Premiere: Jan 17, 2016

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 49 User Ratings

6.3

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Created By: Lisa Quijano Wolfinger, David Zabel

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San Francisco Chronicle

Jan 14, 2016

The script occasionally wanders into “Gone With the Wind”-style melodrama, but is always rescued by excellent performances. Among the best of the bunch are James, Radnor and Winstead. Butz and Summers edge delightfully close to comic relief.

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The Lincoln Journal Star

Jan 19, 2016

If you can get past the sermonizing, there maybe a story worth seeing here.

By Jeff Korbelik FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Jan 19, 2016

Mercy Street delivers on gross-out medicine, tentatively soapy romance and and even occasionally nuanced history lessons and keeps the giggle-inducing performances to a relatively minimum. Six episodes was probably a less-than-ideal count for Lisa Wolfinger and David Zabel's drama, but the run concludes at a place that should take the show interesting places in a hypothetically better arced second season.

By Daniel Fienberg FULL REVIEW

Philadelphia Inquirer

Jan 21, 2016

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.

By Ellen Gray FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Jan 15, 2016

Its writers aren’t working at the same level [as Downton Abbey] when it comes to turning a phrase or developing a more than one-dimensional character. And the tone, a kind of perky gravity that sits well on the early-20th-century British gentry, is a more awkward fit in a story set in the midst of a war over slavery.

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Newsday

Jan 13, 2016

The cast in fact is terrific. (It also includes Norbert Leo Butz, Peter Gerety and AnnaSophia Robb.) A cramped, airless setting is the critical flaw here. Nothing comes to life--words, drama or most of all, characters.

By Verne Gay FULL REVIEW

Boston Globe

Jan 14, 2016

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.

By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:

ArsenalFX Color
Lone Wolf Media
Scott Free Productions
Talent One

Initial Release Date: Jan 17, 2016

Number of seasons: 2 Seasons

Rating: TV-14

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• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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McKinley Belcher III

Samuel Diggs

Suzanne Bertish

Hospital Matron Brannan

Norbert Leo Butz

Dr. Byron Hale

Gary Cole

James Green

Hannah James

Emma Green

Brad Koed

James Green Jr.

Luke Macfarlane

Chaplain Hopkins

Donna Murphy

Jane Green

Josh Radnor

Dr. Jedediah Foster

AnnaSophia Robb

Alice Green

Tara Summers

Anne Hastings

L. Scott Caldwell

Belinda

Wade Williams

Silas Bullen

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Mary Phinney

Emily Marie Palmer

Sister Isabella

Luray Cooper

Abel Melcher

Jack Falahee

Frank Stringfellow

Peter Gerety

Dr. Alfred Summers

Jacob Dacus

Orderly Kendrick

Shalita Grant

Aurelia Johnson

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