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Critic Consensus: Mercy Street's intriguing setting and talented cast can't compensate for the overall lack of excitement in a period drama that's traditional to a fault.
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as Jedediah Foster
as Mary Phinney
as James Green
as James Green Jr.
as Emma Green
as Dr. Byron Hale
as Dr. Alfred Summers
as Samuel Diggs
as Anne Hastings
as Aurelia Johnson
as Frank Stringfellow
as Alice Green
as Tom Fairfax
as Jane Green
as Belinda
as Hospital Matron Brannan
as Silas Bullen
as Chaplain Hopkins
as Dorthea Dix
as Alice Green
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Critic Reviews for Mercy Street: Season 1
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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.
Excellent cast, lifeless drama.
The first original scripted drama produced by PBS in over a decade, Mercy Street is 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.
A drama that exults the quality of mercy in an improvised Virginia hospital during the Civil War.
Soapy Civil War hospital drama has lots of blood, history.
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.
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