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SummaryIn 1911, Emma Harte (Jessica Reynold/Brenda Blethyn) is an English maid who becomes the woman in charge of a business empire in New York in the 1970s in the second adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's novel of the same name. It was previously adapted in 1985 by Channel 4 with Deborah Kerr and Jenny Seagrove. [Premiered originally in the UK ... Read More

A Woman of Substance

Season 1 Premiere: 
Mar 11, 2026
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
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80% Mixed
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Mar 11, 2026
80
The Telegraph
Our heroine’s journey from Catherine Cookson territory to a shag-piled Manhattan skyscraper is treated with a surprising amount of sincerity.
Mar 11, 2026
60
The Independent
The neurotic bed-hopping (which continues even after one of the trio is dead) was akin to torture. Thankfully, despite the longueurs, AWOS gets where it needs to go.
Mar 11, 2026
60
The Guardian
A Woman of Substance still works brilliantly as a nostalgia piece – a perfect homage to the age of excess and television that drowned you in plot and let someone else worry about the rest. Think of it as Dallas in Yorkshire. Three-star television but four-star nonsense and delight.
Mar 11, 2026
60
The Times
This drama can be a bit “tell” not “show”. It is also, obviously, really silly. But it does have the nous to lean into the absurdity with thunderous string music, fortissimo piano and sweeping shots of the lovely Yorkshire landscape. If anything, the parallel timeline is even more lush.
Mar 11, 2026
60
Radio Times
Reynolds is a force to be reckoned with here – bringing humour, light, hope and heartbreak to every episode. With less screen time than Reynolds, it's hard for Blethyn to embody all of that to a similar degree but in the final moments of the series, she does come into her own a bit more as the story takes some soapy turns.
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