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2017
May
22
 
 
If you enjoy silly walks, broad mugging, extended triple-takes – which, we might stress, are not derogatory terms in the world of British sitcoms – you may quite enjoy Count Arthur Strong...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
21
 
 
Joanne Froggatt wanted a different kind of role after playing the saintly Anna Bates on Downton Abbey. With Dark Angel, she found it... she plays Mary Ann Cotton, a 19th century serial killer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
20
 
 
Just when you may have thought the Bernie Madoff story couldn’t get any sadder, along comes HBO’s The Wizard of Lies, which shows that the real Madoff was far too often a cruel bully who delighted in taunting and humiliating those around him...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
18
 
 

It’s been a harrowing year for Susan Blommaert’s Mr. Kaplan on NBC’s The Blacklist, and it’s not over yet. In fact, Blommaert jokes, she may need another bottle of wine to get to the finish line...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
18
 
 
The television legacy of Roger Ailes is as impressive as his personal conduct seemed to be deplorable...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
17
 
 
Given how many hour-long TV dramas these days shoot for funny – Scorpion, iZombie -- there’s no reason a half-hour sitcom can’t shoot for poignant...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
16
 
 
I’m under no illusion that a whole lot of people will be excited about a PBS show that recounts the history of the Carter Family and the Memphis Jug Band...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
15
 
 
The new PBS documentary Forever Pure details another depressing example of how sports can be weaponized.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
14
 
 
If you want almost all your current perceptions of the British royal family obliterated, tune in King Charles III...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
12
 
 

Up for another round of “No, no, what do you really think and how do you really feel?” Then you’ll want to spend Friday diving into Amazon’s new I Love Dick, an adaptation of Chris Kraus’s satiric 1997 novel...