{"id":265370,"date":"2026-01-03T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/265370\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:44:08","slug":"7-stylish-period-dramas-to-watch-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/265370\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Stylish Period Dramas to Watch in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wild left turn from her delicate, meditative feature debut, The Lost Daughter, this stylized thriller from Maggie Gyllenhaal is a joy ride through \u201930s Chicago. At its center is Jessie Buckley, a reimagined bride of Frankenstein in floaty silk dresses, shaggy fringe, leather jackets, and lace thigh-highs, paired with black, ink-stained lips; a frizzy bob; and an inscrutable smirk. Add Christian Bale as the monster, in pinstripe vests; a dapper Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard; and a vampy Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, and you have a mind-melter guaranteed to inspire a wealth of costumes come next Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>Sense &amp; Sensibility (in theaters September 11)<\/p>\n<p>Grace Snell, the thoughtful and accomplished costume designer behind The Souvenir, is responsible for the bonnets, empire-waisted gowns, velvet coats, and embroidered muffs\u2014glimpsed in the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRKvYXAEuDw\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRKvYXAEuDw\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRKvYXAEuDw\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first photos from the set<\/a>\u2014in this wistful update on one of Jane Austen\u2019s best-loved novels. Following in the vaunted footsteps of Ang Lee\u2019s rain-soaked 1995 version starring the wonderful Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, it\u2019s helmed by Blue Jean\u2019s Georgia Oakley, penned by novelist Diana Reid, and features an ensemble led by Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esm\u00e9 Creed-Miles, Caitr\u00edona Balfe, Frank Dillane, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw. It\u2019s poised to be a quieter, more traditional and poetic period piece than many of its showier rivals, certainly, but should be all the better for it.<\/p>\n<p>The Other Bennett Sister (TBA)<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Richard Coyle Indira Varma Person Adult Face Head Clothing and Coat\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: James Pardon \/ BBC \/ Bad Wolf<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wild left turn from her delicate, meditative feature debut, The Lost Daughter, this stylized thriller from Maggie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[13364,18,117,19,17,7070,120588,128,19935],"class_list":{"0":"post-265370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-digital_syndication","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-splitscreenimagerightfullbleed","14":"tag-storytypelist","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-tv-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115831941645080587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}