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TV Review: “A Tale of Two Cities”
Daniel West’s “A Tale of Two Cities” doesn’t reflect Charles Dickens’s classic tale.
4 min readSep 9, 2026
Picture it. London. It’s 1782. Tensions run high in the war between France and Britain. Lucie Manette, a young woman, has her life upended when she receives a message from Paris — her father, assumed dead for almost 20 years, may be alive.
Charles Darnay, an idealistic French emigré, is a messenger. He is arrested and charged with treason. Miss Manette enlists the help of a brilliant but erratic young lawyer named Sydney Carton (Kit Harington). Miss Manette hopes to see Mr. Darnay freed.
Miss Manette’s collision with Darnay and Carton unleashes a powerful and complex love triangle. Both men fight to be worthy of her love…
