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math of the Battle of Setauket. The Culper Ring has become solidified, for a second season, pulling in 1.61 million American viewers — the most since the second episode. In general, the ratings haven’t been exceptionally high and reviews have been mixed, though critics who weren’t entirely sold on the spy thriller angle still tend to praise the historical content. ing the war. [The show is] about how this country came to be.” in action,” said executive producer just have been the

Indeed, Woodhull, Tallmadge, Strong and many more were real players in the American Revolution. More recognizable are figures such as George Washington, and that famed traitor, Benedict Arnold (Owain Yeoman, “The Mentalist”), who appears in season 2. It’s the everyman nature of characters such as Abe, however, that makes this lesser-known viewpoint of the War of Independence a compelling one.

“This is an ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation,” Bell said of his character to the “New York Observer.”

“I don’t think many English people learned about these aspects of the war and, in America, I think you learn about the Founding Fathers, but maybe not about the intricacies of what really happened dur-

The season 2 premiere drew fewer than a million U.S. viewers, but that doesn’t mean the show can’t still take off. “Breaking Bad,” after all, wasn’t an instant hit, either. It had a slow burn before becoming one of the most-watched cable shows on American television and is now considered one of the greatest series of all time.

“It is a show built to grow,” Silverstein said of “TURN” in an interview with “Entertainment Weekly.” “Sometimes in this crowded landscape, with so many good shows, the audience needs to know that a show is there and survived, and then they give it a bit of respect and start to watch it.”

So long as the current season can mimic the last in its upward trajectory, “TURN: Washington’s Spies” may have a lot of life left in it yet. After all, the war is far from

You don’t need to be a history buff to enjoy a series like this one. Espionage and loyalty are just as important to the story being told

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