Netflix’s Hidden Polish Period Drama Is Quietly Winning Over Viewers — And It’s Far Darker Than It First Appears. Set in 19th-century Warsaw, the six-part drama follows an ambitious merchant whose obsession with an aristocratic woman pulls him into a dangerous world of class, privilege and social prejudice. What begins as a love story soon becomes something much more complicated — and unexpectedly heartbreaking.
The Doll: Netflix’s Dark Polish Period Drama Reimagines a Literary Classic Netflix has quietly added a lavish new period drama that takes one of Poland’s most celebrated novels and turns it into a darker, more contemporary story of love, ambition and social class. The Doll, known as Lalka in Polish, is a six-part adaptation of … Read more