EPISODE
SEASON
Mercy Street - Season 1
Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
3 July 1972, Biddeford, Maine, USA
11 January 1982, North Carolina, USA
18 November 1978, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
24 January 1972, Houston, Texas, USA
6 June 1977, Miami, Florida, USA
23 December 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 December 1990, Tucson, Arizona, USA
26 April 1979, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
6 November 1984, Pageland, South Carolina, USA
20 April 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 December 1990, Flint, Michigan, USA
5 October 1977, San Antonio, Texas, USA
January 19, 2016
At heart, Mercy Street... is a medical soap opera - Grey's Anatomy with crinolines - and that's the show's most entertaining aspect.
January 14, 2016
Excellent cast, lifeless drama.
January 21, 2016
Although some aspects of the ploy may be predictable, the drama emerging from the many conflicts of the Civil War period, both ideological and physical, promise to demand attention.
January 19, 2016
Mercy Street milks ample drama from the terrifying prospect of facing even the most minor of procedures in an era in which anesthesia was considered unnecessary and the most scientific testing involved sniffing.
January 15, 2016
Despite the lovely title, used by both musician Peter Gabriel and poet Anne Sexton, the show is obvious and inauthentic as it tells the story.
August 13, 2016
... a medical show by way of a historical drama, an American story that takes its cues from British period pieces and fills its cast with strong American actors.
January 19, 2016
It's entertaining, for sure, and immediately watchable, especially for those that love a historical drama.
February 02, 2016
Soapy Civil War hospital drama has lots of blood, history.
February 26, 2016
A drama that exults the quality of mercy in an improvised Virginia hospital during the Civil War.
