You just got a visit from a strange character. It offers you the chance, you think I'm crazy, of travel back in time and visit the past. The only condition? That you can't interact with anything, just be a spectator. Almost a ghost. What time would you travel? We offer you some answers to this question, with some of the best periodic series from Netflix and HBO, as we did with tips based on The Crown, so you know more about times gone by.
The Knick offers a particular perspective on the beginnings of the modern medical world.
If you have agreed to join us on this curious journey, let us show you the best examples of both platforms, both from Netflix that HBO, and we'll take you along dramatic paths, of action violent, of loves impossible and, why not say it, as standard as the clothes of the time.
Enjoy the best vintage series with this list of recommendations
Whether you want of action and violence topics, such as Vikings or peaky Blinders, or if you prefer the more often than not sumptuous, like the Bridgertons, we have the series both on Netflix e HBO, ideal for you.
- The crown
- Vikings
- And Bridgerton
- Anna with the E
- foreigner
- Peak Blinders
- The White Princess
- The Knick
- Versailles
- Castamar's cook
- A gentleman's game
- aka Grace
- Britannia
- The ministry of time
- Isabella
The crown
Welcome to one of the crown jewels on Netflix, which we recommend less than we should, and which tells the recent history of the British royal family, but believe us, you won't get bored with the English way of life. Quite the opposite. From the first season, which addresses the marriage of Queen Elizabeth and the consecration of Winston Churchill as prime minister, last season released, where the arrival of Lady Di in the royal family breaks the rigid schemes of the monarchy, you will have hours of entertainment and digital joy to absorb the recent history of our more peculiar neighbors.
- Year: 2016
- Seasons: 4
- Episodes available: 40
- Approximate duration: 60 minutes
Vikings
Created by time series expert Michael Hirst, head of The Tudors and Camelot, Vikings is a brutal alternative to Game of Thrones that will put you in direct contact with the power struggles and the raw violence of Viking tribe than 1000 years ago. Shot with the utmost historical rigor, it delves into the adventures of a rebellious young hero and his family. Action, blood and many allusions to Odin.
- Year 2013
- Seasons: 6
- Episodes available: 89
- Approximate duration: 44 minutes
And Bridgerton
Some vintage series they incorporate their own licenses, with soundtracks, costumes and attitudes far from their time, but which show us a past different from what each of us has in mind. This romantic drama most interesting and irreverent we have encountered is one of the modern hits of Netflix. In case you don't know the story, based on the novels by Julia Quinn, we will fully enter the nobility di London from period of the Regency and we will meet young people who fully enter the game of arranged marriages, with a high dose of sensuality In each chapter.
- Year: 2020
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 8
- Approximate duration: 60 minutes
Anna with the E
With this series we invoke the spirit of female protagonism, which in this case is represented through the interpretation of the actress Amybeth McNulty, in a story that takes us to Canada of early nineteenth century. a orphan, the protagonist of the story, will have to make his way into an unknown society to her, with a new home and a new school, while using all his weapons: intelligence, imagination and his ability to solve problems.
- Year: 2017
- Seasons: 3
- Episodes available: 27
- Approximate duration: 45 minutes
foreigner
This epic tale follows in the footsteps of Claire Randall, a combat nurse who for some reason is transported through space-time to the mid XNUMXth century. Based on a series of romantic and fantasy novels, it delves into Claire's relationship with two male characters, a love story through time with touches of imagination and time. If you like vintage series, but you don't feel like watching the same old things, I think this might be a great choice for you.
- Year 2014
- Seasons: 6
- Episodes available: 42
- Approximate duration: 65 minutes
Peak Blinders
The wonderful work created by Steven Knight is our next bet. This series, which will allow you to see part of the islands at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, will drag you into the tumultuous life of one of Birmingham's most stubborn and savage families, half gypsies and half English, who they will use all resources close at hand, often called Fists and Pistols, to reach the climbing in society of the time. The performances they are more than superb and its female protagonists have nothing to fear from their professional colleagues.
- Year 2013
- Seasons: 5
- Episodes available: 30
- Approximate duration: 60 minutes
The White Princess
I Really, both fictional and based on real characters, have always been a breeding ground for great movies and TV series. In this case, thanks to the magnificent interpretation of Jodie Comer, who we know from Killing Eve, we may get closer to a troubled marriage that he united Elizabeth of York and Henry VII, as a conclusion of the War of the Roses, but that started a power struggle for the throne. There HBO series is based on the novel by Philippa Gregory and offers us the female point of view of the competition.
- Year: 2017
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 8
- Approximate duration: 55 minutes
The Knick
Steven Soderbergh e Clive Owen combine their natural talent for directing and acting, respectively, to offer us one of those special series, both for the little used plot, and for the careful preparation, which we can enjoy on HBO. If you want to get closer to this story, you need to know that we will follow John Thackery, a surgeon in a hospital of New York, At the beginning of XX century, whose methods challenge all that has been established to date.
- Year 2014
- Seasons: 2
- Episodes available: 20
- Approximate duration: 50 minutes
Versailles
Let's continue this list of tips with a drama with a French accent, which was incorporated into the Netflix catalog thanks to its dizzying success, as it has several seasons behind it. On this occasion, the action will place us in the early seventeenth century, With the construction of the majestic Palace of Versailles, at the request of Louis XIV, and all the intrigues and problems that this work caused the French court of the time.
- Year: 2015
- Seasons: 3
- Episodes available: 30
- Approximate duration: 50 minutes
Castamar's cook
La Spanish fiction it has always been a great success beyond our borders and, while not belittling others genres, is in the historical where it can realize its full potential. On this occasion we will visit the Madrid of 1750 in the company of a humble one cook, character played by the charismatic Michelle jenner, which manages to attract the attention of a widowed duke. His problem of agoraphobiaHowever, it won't make things easy for Clara.
- Year: 2021
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 2
- Approximate duration: 60 minutes
A gentleman's game
If you are interested in the recent past and, moreover, you are passionate or passionate about football, I think this series may be what you were looking for. This historical drama tells the invention of one of the most popular sports to the world, in XNUMXth century England, how it quickly grew in popularity and how it has changed the rules of a company divided into classes, which used football to integrate social strata in an unexpected way.
- Year: 2020
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 6
- Approximate duration: 45 minutes
aka Grace
That you like to know the customs of past ages, the aesthetics printed in these series or the narratives based on true stories, Alias Grace will fascinate you. Without giving you too much insight into the plot, this story focuses on one waitress accused of murder and find out if it is simply a scapegoat or is one of the first serial killers in modern history. Among other things, the sensational performance of Sarah Gadon.
- Year: 2017
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes available: 6
- Approximate duration: 45 minutes
Britannia
A collection of adventures and historical television series, even if this last point should be discussed calmly, it seems that some countries, we could include Spain among them, have in their centuries of history a lot of cloth to cut. We move, in the plot of the series, in the English lands, a few years before the birth of Jesus Christ, and we set foot in the fresh grass of his hills, we crossed wide meadows in search of adventure and, finally, we took a bath of the Celtic mythology, with powerful wizards who they pursue the power of the kingdom.
- Year: 2017
- Seasons: 2
- Episodes available: 24
- Approximate duration: 40 minutes
The ministry of time
One of the most Spanish series innovative, fun, entertaining and imaginative of the current Spanish, as well as a source of knowledge of our story, is now available on HBO Spain. On this occasion, in case you are one of those unsuspecting who have never heard of it, you should know that our government has secretly used for centuries mysterious doors and they connect different moments in history and what are they for prevent the past from being changed, influencing our future.
- Year: 2015
- Seasons: 4
- Episodes available: 42
- Approximate duration: 70 minutes
Isabella
If we have to talk about series historical and back to our past, centuries back in time, our country is one of the richest in epic history and a thousand and more intrigues. The plot of this television series, available on HBO, will rotate around the figure of Isabel the Catholic, one of the most influential women in the history of Spain, and that we can see from her premiere childhood, through his marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon, up to reconquest of Granada and expulsion of the Jews. All this with the usual quality of the productions of our land.
- Year 2014
- Seasons: 3
- Episodes available: 39
- Approximate duration: 70 minutes
