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    This TV Show Is The Period Drama You Should Be Watching

    If the hole in your heart from the end of Mad Men needs healing, take a trip back in time with WGN America's Manhattan.

    And if you're not watching, here are a few reasons why you really should be.

    Watching the creation of the bomb itself is fascinating.

    The series is full of badass feminists.

    And speaking of feminism, Manhattan presents an array of sexualities and treats them with respect.

    With her husband Charlie (Ashley Zukerman) constantly working, Abby Isaacs (Rachel Brosnahan) begins an affair with her neighbor and coworker, Elodie (Carole Weyers). It's not simply that the series is making Abby's character bisexual for simple titillation, but rather that her sexual exploration adds a depth to to her personal insecurities about establishing a new life in Los Alamos. As she seeks connection in a highly regimented and segmented society, Abby's tryst with Elodie isn't a repudiation of her (heterosexual) marriage, but instead a form of liberation that is nearly impossible to find in the confines of the town.

    Domestic life is treated with as much urgency and importance as the actual machinations of war.

    While it's a war for country that provides the entry point for the series, it's the war for the restoration of a cultural ideal of prewar domestic peace that drives much of the series. Of course, Manhattan realizes that ideal domestic life was never quite ideal, and that a return to this imagined sociocultural way of living is ultimately impossible. But damned if Los Alamos doesn't do its best to provide a simulacra of the suburban idyll. There's a town council to make decisions about daily life, a market for shopping and gossip, a bar for light-hearted debauchery. There is also a strict monitoring of both internal and external communication; as much as the citizens are free to conduct themselves as typical suburbanites, they are simultaneously trapped within the army's purview. Domesticity is no longer their own, and the intimacy of family and friendship is not so private as it might seem.

    It can be pretty damn funny when it wants to be.

    And because it's just a damn good show that doesn't get the recognition it deserves, OK?

    Catch up with Season 1 on Hulu now, then catch Season 2 of Manhattan airing Tuesdays at 9 p.m. EST on WGN America.