Ani Bundel has been blogging professionally since 2010. This is her second major independent site launch. A DC native and Keyboard Khaleesi, she spends all her non-writing time photographing her cats. Regular bylines also found on MSNOW.
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Is this Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries or Victorian London? The cold open features cobblestone allies and beggar children running for their lives — all save one, who is already dead. Cut to Dr. Mac, attending a presentation by Dr. Harcourt (Dan Spielman) concerning those still suffering the scars of
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With COVID-19 decimating filming schedules across the world in 2020, the fall TV season is understandably up in the air. However, there are a few shows that fans can look forward to because the productions worked so far in advance. His Dark Materials, a massive hit in the U.K.
Mystery
Will was in a lousy headspace at the end of last week's Grantchester. The finale opens with him in a worse one, drunk and surly, having crashed his mother's engagement party to St. John. Only Clement (Jonny Amies), his teenage step-brother-to-be, gets a kind word. Amelia,
Mystery
There's nothing more cliché Italian that the murder of a little old grandmother in a kitchen, set to "La Donna E Mobile," but that's how Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries rolls. The abrupt cut to Catholic imagery isn't related though; that&
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Peacock's arrival marks the fourth major streaming service in eight months to debut for viewers since November of 2019. Like it's precessors, Disney+ and HBO Max, it is the product of a single company, in this case, Comcast, using its best-known brand, NBC, to create a
Downton Abbey
When Downton Abbey first debuted on Masterpiece in the winter of 2011, it was a game-changer for the longtime PBS program. The series, previously known as Masterpiece Theater, had only rebranded two seasons earlier, with a format that made program offerings more inclusive, and more contemporary. But even so, no
Mystery
Grantchester opens with the weekly eucharist, Will and Leonard presiding. But somewhere in dark alleys, there's a man on the run, begging someone to take his money. As Vic and Marie round up his gang after church, Mrs. Butler thanks them (and Will) for taking care of her
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After skipping the cold open for the Season 3 premiere, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries returns to the tradition, as a young lady runs to the RAAF gates. In the darkness, a man catches up to her, and she dies. Luckily, Miss Fisher is on base the next morning,
Drama
When Lesley Manville was announced in the role of Princess Margaret in Season 5 of The Crown, I lamented how writer Peter Morgan's choice to end with Season 5 robbed fans of the initially planned two seasons for the last round of the series' cast, including Imelda
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The Crown's decision to end its fictionalized biography of Queen Elizabeth II before the turn of the millennium meant the series would no longer extend to the initially planned Season 6. That also means the third and final casting of the titular Elizabeth, plus Prince Philip and Princess
Mystery
When Vienna Blood debuted back in January of 2020, it was an exciting addition to the PBS mystery line-up. Set in 1910s Vienna, in the years before the Great War tore the Austria-Hungarian empire apart, this series explores a time and place in the grip of rising nationalism, and blindness
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This week's Grantchester begins with a young man running naked in the middle of the street. He passes Geordie and Will on their way to the pub for some backgammon, and Geordie nearly gives chase. But Will assumes it's "high spirits" among the college