[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.
This week, we look at TV series set long ago and the many ways writers can use period settings to elevate their storytelling.
Our collection includes:
* **Bridgerton** – “Diamond of the First Water”
* **Chernobyl** – “1:23:45”
* **Deadwood** – “Pilot”
* **Dickinson** – “Because I could not stop”
* **Downton Abbey** – Season 6, Episode 8
* **Gentleman Jack** – “Episode 1”
* **GLOW** – “Pilot”
* **Halt and Catch Fire** – “Pilot”
* **Mad Men** – “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”
* **Peaky Blinders** – “Episode 1”
* **PEN15** – “Vendy Wiccany”
* **Penny Dreadful** – “Pilot”
* **Perry Mason** – “Chapter Three”
* **Pose** – “A House Is Not A Home”
* **Shōgun** – “Anjin”
* **Snowfall** – “Pilot”
* **Taboo** – “Episode 1”
* **The Crown** – “Assassins”
* **The Great** – “Alone At Last”
* **The Knick** – “Pilot”
* **The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel** – “Pilot”
* **The Terror** – “Go for Broke”
* **The Underground Railroad** – “Chapter 10: Mabel”
Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. [Download for free](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!