Mercy Street - PBS Drama

[BettyO]

I thought it was alright - but the southern characters seemed to be shown as the stereotypically bad drawling "air-heads"....overdressed and overblown. The hospital sequences were pretty graphic but well done. I, too thought it odd that a woman with limited nursing experience was appointed head of a hospital - particularly over another who supposedly worked with Nightingale in the Crimea. Predictable and far-fetched.....

By the way - anyone recognize the "Southern mother?" She is played by the same actress who portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln in Turner's Day Lincoln was Shot in 1997. The home of the southern characters was also shot at Center Hill Mansion in Petersburg, VA. Same site used as the interior of the White House in the same movie....