A Tale of Two Cities (PILOT)

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and apparently it was also time for another adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities. MGM+ and BBC One’s new four-part miniseries stars Kit Harington, Mirren Mack, and François Civil in a heavily reworked version of Charles Dickens’ 1859 novel. The premiere, “Recalled to Life,” throws Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton together almost immediately as news of Lucie’s supposedly dead father, a treason trial, and the beginnings of a lov...