PBS Distribution has announced that it will release on Blu-ray
Mercy Street: Season 2. The two-disc set will be available for purchase on February 14.
Executive produced by Ridley Scott (The Martian, Gladiator, Thelma and Louise and The Good Wife); David W. Zucker (The Good Wife and The Man in the High Castle) of Scott Free; Lisa Q. Wolfinger (Desperate Crossing, the untold story of the Mayflower) and David Zabel (ER), the series follows the doctors, nurses and soldiers, as well as free, enslaved and contraband African Americans and other residents of the war-torn city, as they navigate the new world emerging from the most cataclysmic event in our country's history.
The
first season of Mercy Street, which premiered in January 2016, reached a total audience of 14 million people. It is the second highest rated drama for the year to date on PBS, after
Downton Abbey on MASTERPIECE.
Mercy Street Season 2 picks up directly from the dramatic events at the end of the first season finale, continuing to explore life in the chaotic city of Alexandria, the complicated interpersonal dynamics of Dr. Foster, Nurse Mary and the Mansion House staff, the increasingly precarious position of the Green family and the changing world of the burgeoning black population. The second season will introduce a number of new elements, taking the viewer closer to the war and into the halls of Confederate power, all set against the intensifying war, starting with the Seven Days' Battle and culminating with Antietam.
The new season also delves deeper into the lives of newly freed African Americans, exploring - among other areas - life in a contraband camp, where formerly enslaved African Americans are forced to confront horrific living conditions and disease, but also get a glimpse of freedom.