Writer Janet Mullany is from England, drinks a lot of tea, and likes Jane Austen, reading, and gasping in shock at costumes in historical TV dramas. Her household near Washington DC includes a badly-behaved cat about whom she frequently boasts.
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“There’s a storm a-comin’...” Ridley opens with our titular detective singing to an entranced crowd at the jazz bar as his love interest, Annie Marling, hangs out behind the bar with jewelry shop owner Harry Bentham. Art imitates life as outside a storm brings down a large tree,
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The titular building of The Tower still looms over everything as the series returns for its third installment, entitled “Gallowstree Lane,” after the Kate London best-selling series of the same name it is adapted from. Despite now having moved on from that initial tragic incident on a high rise,
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Ridley returns for the second half of its premiere mystery for Season 2, “A Sleeping Tiger,” with the discovery of a somewhat awkward problem. DI Darren Lakhan arrested Tasha Walker after raiding her house and finding a bag of clothes belonging to her boyfriend, Liam Manley, the team’s main
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In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, second son of Queen Elizabeth II, gave a damning interview to the BBC’s Emily Maitlis about his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In the spring of 2024, Netflix gave us Scoop, a feature-length
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Season 2 of Ridley is here, starring Adrian Dunbar as troubled cop Alex Ridley, whose dream of a peaceful retirement was shattered by the murders of his wife and daughter. Murder, in a sense, saved his sanity when his successor, DI Carol Farman (Bronagh Waugh), requested in Season 1 that
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The Season 2 finale of The Serpent Queen begins with Princess Margot throwing a major tantrum after hearing that she is to marry her cousin, Henri of Navarre, as her brother, King Charles, dodges the flying furniture and attempts to calm her down. Once free, Charles tackles his mother and
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It’s the series finale of COBRA and the final installment of Season 3’s Rebellion. In short, anything that could happen now... will. Hang on to your hats; this overstuffed episode includes big explosions inside and outside Downing Street. We pick up where we left off at the end
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The penultimate episode of Season 2 of The Serpent Queen opens with a demonstration of Edith’s growing aggression toward Catholics. Her gang, including Aabis, (who isn’t dead!) puts a dagger to the throat of an elderly priest outside his church until he renounces his faith. We first met
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It's time to call a COBRA as the penultimate episode of COBRA: Rebellion kicks off. As was shown at the end of last week, Dan Goddard, the father of the late protestor Polly, has joined with two ex-military terrorists to steal the Damocles XR, a sophisticated long-
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Episode 6 of The Serpent Queen opens with Antoine Bourbon, still feeling the effects of the night before and Ruggiero’s drugged wine. Queen Elizabeth of England and her entourage sweep through the corridors as his brother, Louis, insists she can’t possibly be here; she’s in Flanders awaiting
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COBRA: Rebellion hit the halfway point of the series last week with a violent demonstration outside the International Defense Expo in which Polly Wright, a leading member of Planet Resistance and a close friend of Ellie Sutherland, was severely injured and died soon after. Ellie and the leader of Planet
Classics Revisited
As the 2024 Paris Olympics draw to a close, we’re celebrating with a look back at 1981’s Chariots of Fire, a film based on the true story of the 1924 Paris Olympics. Directed by Hugh Hudson (his greatest hit in an otherwise unremarkable career) and written by Colin