Period films can become empty costume parades very quickly when the clothes are doing more thinking than the drama. That’s actually the difference between Bridgerton and Reign. Period dramas or films that are genuinely great understand that the past was never decorative to the people living inside it. It was pressure. It was law, money, marriage, religion, class, land, etiquette, war, hunger, and reputation deciding what a person could want out loud.

Major surges of ICE agents have largely faded from public view, but immigration crackdowns are still ongoing in many communities, especially where there is cooperation with state and local authorities. A new law in Tennessee goes further than any other and has critics worried it will cut off life-saving care for children of undocumented immigrants. Stephanie Sy discussed more with Michele Johnson.