The article recommends period dramas for fans of Netflix's My Brilliant Career, a six-episode series about a headstrong aspiring writer resisting marriage in early-1900s rural Australia. It highlights shows sharing similar themes of women defying the social expectations of their era, spanning different tones from romantic drama to dark comedy.

Featured picks include Apple TV's Dickinson, starring Hailee Steinfeld as a modernised, anachronistic version of poet Emily Dickinson battling her father over her writing ambitions; The Buccaneers, also on Apple TV, following wealthy American women pursuing titled marriages in 1870s London that become constricting; and Hulu's The Great, with Elle Fanning as a fictionalised Catherine the Great who stages a coup against her husband, offering a bloodier, more comedic take on female rebellion than the original series.