SEASON PREMIERE: It doesn’t take long for Olivia Colman, who takes the baton from Seasons 1 and 2 star Claire Foy and inherits the starring role of Queen Elizabeth II, to hit the ground running. In fact, she establishes her royal command of the role instantly, in this new Season 3’s opening seconds. Foy was brilliant; Colman, as an elder version of the same complicated leader, is equally convincing and compelling. It may be the best tag-team acting since Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando played the younger and older Vito Corleone in the Godfather movies. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

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Michael Adams

I have watched Midsomer Murders, the UK cop show but much more than that. I’ve seen all of the episodes more than once. This year, shortly after Olivia Colman won the Oscar for Best Actress and I was amazed that I’d really never heard of her. I went to IMDb to see what else she had done and found that she was in an episode of MM, Season 12 Episode 5. So I got out my DVD’s of that season and found that DVD and watched it for the first time in a long time. I won’t spoil what she plays in it but it’s a very cool episode and I didn’t figure out who the bad guy was until almost the end.
As I looked at IMDb, I noticed that she was also in Hot Fuzz, the UK cop comedy from 2007. And she also had a small role in the 2017 version of Murder On The Orient Express, which she’d probably rather forget, like most of us have! I’m going to find others of her performances and see what else I missed.

Nov 17, 2019 | Reply

Alex S.

One word: Broadchurch.

May 5, 2020

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