Mercy street

Now that the second season of Mercy Street is over, find out which character is most like you! Are you knowledgeable like Samuel or compassionate like Emma? Hardworking like Mary or mischievous like Hale?

TV REVIEW | This very average series is set in a makeshift Union hospital in Alexandria in 1862.

I wish I was a U.S. Civil War historian or at least a Civil War reenactor so I could get really riled up and angry about PBS Masterpiece’s latest historical costume drama Mercy Street (2016).…

Co-Creator and Executive Producer Lisa Q. Wolfinger details the discovery of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by Civil War-era doctors and describes the creative decision to explore PTSD in the series.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, left, has drawn praise from TV critics for her performance as Mary Phinney in Mercy Street, PBS’s new American drama. Tara Summers, right, plays Anne Hastings. (Photo: Antony Platt/PBS)

Mercy Street Season 2

Inspired by real events, Mercy Street takes viewers beyond the battlefield and into the lives of a distinctive cast of characters — doctors, nurses, contraband laborers and Southern loyalists — realizing the chaotic world of Union-occupied Alexandria, Virginia and the Mansion House Hospital in the early years of the Civil War. All episodes now streaming.