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Don't Miss 'A Thousand Blows' Twice
Despite Hulu's inability to give 'A Thousand Blows' a weekly release or proper marketing, this series starring 'Adolescence's Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty is worth your time.
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A Low Key Wedding Brings 'Professor T's Season 4 Finale in for a Soft Landing
After the emotional gut punch of losing Lisa in Season 3’s finale, Professor T’s Season 4 conclusion, “The Warrior Gene,” does us all a solid in this turbulent year: it delivers a sweet, gentle story that feels like a hug from the show. Winters gets the emotional catharsis
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'Professor T' Achieves Personal Progress & Unravels “The Perfect Murder”
We've reached the penultimate episode of Professor T Season 4, and everyone's personal lives are in flux. Zelda’s story is taking prominence, and the Dean becomes a less shallow and more fully-fledged character. Though Peter Snares seems like a lovely man, the Dean’s heartache
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'Professor T's “You Can’t Kill Me” Is Tonally Inconsistent Fun
The title of this week’s Professor T episode, “You Can’t Kill Me,” along with Aunt Zelda opening things with a tarot card reading, suggests a more playful story. The unraveling of this week’s murder is far sadder than what the expectations set. Yet it also manages to
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'Professor T's Crime-Solving Tactics Turn Full Creep in “The Inspection”
This week on Professor T, Jasper lectures about crime statistics, informing his students 89% of killers use a single method, and most are men with histories of violence. Multiple methods of murder suggest premeditation. He warns his students that real-life crime will always have exceptions; of course, that will come
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Jasper Exhibits His Compassionate Side in 'Professor T's “September Gardens”
The second episode of Professor T’s fourth season, “September Gardens,” opens with Adelaide (Frances de la Tour), making the briefest of appearances as Jasper’s mother via FaceTime, to pressure him into complying with a request that will propel him into this week’s case. He is begrudgingly convinced
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'Professor T's Season 4 Premiere Jumps "Overboard" Into the Deep End
Sometimes, after a tragedy, people regress into old habits and comfortable personas. After years of a personality shaped by PTSD, Professor T’s Jasper Tempest (Ben Miller) reverts to the solace of his OCD routines in Season 4’s premiere, “Overboard,” following the death of the series' other main
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'Patience's Finale Opens Up “Pandora's Box” & Tees Up Season 2
The sixth installment of Patience, which is the show's Season 1 finale, “Pandora’s Box,” is a story of eco-terrorism and double agents where Metcalf nearly dies. This has been a fun season of television, and I’ll admit my perspective softened after interviewing writer Matt Baker and
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It’s a Dead Man Walking in the 'Patience' Penultimate Episode
The dead walk in the penultimate episode of Season 1 of Patience, “My Brother’s Keeper.” The episode uses a flash forward framing device where we start with the most outrageous scene: a body disappearing from the morgue. The corpse seems to have walked off the table rather than being
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'Patience's Lead Writer on Adaptation, Collaboration & Creativity
Like all the talent I’ve had the fortune of interacting with at Telly Visions, writer Matt Baker is a warm and generous interviewee. Lead writer on Season 1 of Patience, you no doubt also know him from his work on Hotel Portofino, Professor T, and Suspect, to name a
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'Patience's Fourth Episode Faces the Mystery of “The Locked Room”
It’s the fourth installment of a six-episode first season, and Patience accelerates a couple of arcs while managing not to rush anything. We get the continuation of the adorable flirting between Patience and Elliot (Tom Lewis), the CSI manager. The enormous amount of plot in the previous episodes didn’
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“The Missing Link” Brings 'Patience' Another Unexpected Friendship
Now that we’ve introduced the two main characters and laid the basic groundwork for their burgeoning partnership, “The Missing Link,” the third episode of Patience, opens in a classic murder mystery manner: with a dead body. There’s a woman on the floor of York’s Castle Museum, and