Costarring with a toon has only worked a few times in the history of filmed entertainment, like for Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly and Bob Hoskins and that’s kind of it...

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HULU'S 'HARLOTS' IS A SOBER REVEAL OF THE 18TH CENTURY SEX TRADE By David Hinckley

Harlots, which launches Wednesday (3/29) on the streaming service Hulu, is a British period drama quite unlike anything most viewers would expect or would ever have seen...

2017

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WITH ‘DEAD RECKONING…,’ PBS SHINES A LIGHT ON ATTEMPTS TO PROSECUTE WAR CRIMINALS By David Hinckley

Back in the 1960s, the Firesign Theater comedy troupe did a short bit in which a German accused of Nazi war crimes is tracked down in Argentina and swears he knew nothing about anything. “During der war,” he says in an exaggerated German accent, “I was a gaucho on the Pampas.”...

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WITH THE AIRING OF THE SERIES FINALE OF ‘BONES,’ AN APPRECIATION OF BONES AND THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYS HER By David Hinckley

Before her show is interred, let’s say a few kind words about Bones...

2017

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‘JACK TAYLOR’ IS ANOTHER WINNING IMPORT FOR ACORN TV By David Hinckley

Iain Glen may have had some trouble winning Lady Mary and Daenerys Targaryen, but he scores a big win as a restless Irish private eye on the Acorn-imported series Jack Taylor...

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‘TO WALK INVISIBLE: THE BRONTË SISTERS’ ON PBS EXPLORES THE REMARKABLE YET ROUGH LIFE OF THE AUTHORS By David Hinckley

The three Brontë sisters had a dark secret. They wrote stories. In early Victorian England, this was considered unladylike and downright unseemly...

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FOX HAS HIT THE TARGET WITH ‘SHOTS FIRED’ By David Hinckley

Broadcast television has another strong, compelling and troubling entry in the limited-series game with Fox’s Shots Fired...

2017

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EVERYONE’S FANNING THE FIRE WHEN ‘EMPIRE’ RETURNS By David Hinckley

About the only way things could have gotten hotter on Fox’s Empire would be if they set the whole thing on fire...

2017

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ACORN’S ‘STRIKING OUT’ IS AN IRISH LEGAL DRAMA WITH HEART. AND LAUGHS By David Hinckley

A steady stream of small lovely details make Acorn TV’s latest import, Striking Out, a delightful short-run lawyer drama...

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A EULOGY FOR ‘MERCY STREET’ By David Hinckley

A lot of television shows stick around too long. Mercy Street is leaving too soon...

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