My Country: The New Age and Catherine the Great – two opulent period dramas bring history to life

When novelist L.P. Hartley scribbled his celebrated epithet, “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” he’d obviously just enjoyed a preview of two extravagantly and exquisitely put together costume dramas available now on a screen near you.My Country: The New Age, on Netflix, finds itself in excellent recent company by plundering the history of Old Korea for a tale of skull-smashing military action offset by the tender tangles of young love’s favourite shape – the…

from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/31RrQSS