When Amy was young, her parents limited her TV time. You can see how that worked out. Find her in Paste Magazine, Emmy Magazine, and the LA Times. She is also the VP of the Television Critics Association. Follow her at @amyamatangelo.bsky.social.
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And you think your family has problems? I, Jack Wright, the new series from Chris Lang (Unforgotten), kicks off with the apparent suicide of the title character (Trevor Eve), a millionaire on his third wife. As one can imagine, with that many wives, Jack leaves behind many, many confused and
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It’s always the ones you least suspect, as the season finale of Ludwig kicks off with a shocking plot twist. The previous episode ended with Holly calling Lucy, saying she needed to speak to her about her husband. But if you thought we would see that meeting, you were
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How do you solve an unsolvable puzzle? That’s the case Ludwig is trying to crack in Season 1’s penultimate episode. Ludwig and Carter are called to investigate the apparent suicide of a private school headmaster, Mr. Durose (Christopher Parramore). The case resonates with Ludwig because it’s where
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By his own admission, Ludwig is “quite the legend” in the puzzle-making field. But he has one puzzle — reverse chess — that never quite took off. “Nobody could ever solve them,” Ludwig laments. But finally! Finally! Reverse chess gets its moment to shine in Ludwig's fourth episode. In this
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The third episode of Ludwig starts off with the discovery of a dead body inside a church belonging to Megan (Ella Bruccoleri), a 21-year-old American tour guide who was murdered on the last stop of the Cambridge tour she gives every day. Ludwig and Carter set about interviewing everyone who
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I have something a tad bit upsetting to share with you. It’s quite possible that you missed an entire TV series centered around Idris Elba as an action hero. It’s not entirely your fault. Hijack ran on AppleTV+ during the summer of 2023. As they say in the
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TV loves a maverick crime solver. ABC has a hit with High Potential, which finds cleaning woman Morgan Gillory (Kaitlin Gillory) using her extraordinary IQ and memory retention to solve crimes in Los Angeles. Over at CBS, the title character in Elsbeth (Carrie Preston), leverages her quirky powers of observation
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Douglas is Cancelled, the new four-part series premiering on BritBox, is not the show you are expecting. It’s billed as a treatise on social media's capricious and damaging nature. Instead, it is the “me too” experience brought to horrific life. It is a blistering condemnation of what
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The real-life story of Britain's Ruth Ellis is undeniably devastating and tragic. On Easter Sunday in 1955, she murdered her lover, racecar driver David Blakely, by shooting him in the back in the middle of the street. Less than three months later, Ellis, who was only 28 years
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Who and what determines someone’s quality of life? Is there a right time to stop fighting for your child? How do you know what is in their best interests? These are the questions the fabulous new series Best Interests considers with heartbreaking authenticity. Already a success in the U.
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There’s a whole generation of women who grew up with Bridget Jones. We read Helen Fielding’s popular novels. We watched the movies. We followed Bridget (Renée Zellweger) as a single woman in her thirties, obsessed with her weight, counting her cigarette and alcohol intake, struggling with her career,
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Watching a TV series means wholly leaning into the willing suspension of disbelief. Characters on TV wake up with perfect makeup and hair. They live in beautifully furnished apartments, and their salaries would never allow them to afford. They never seem to have to go to the bathroom or worry