A writer since her childhood introduction to Shel Silverstein, Marni adores film, cats, Brits, and the Oxford comma. She studied screenwriting and has written movie, TV, and pop culture reviews. Find her on Instagram and BlueSky.
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From writer/creator Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) comes Hulu’s A Thousand Blows, a stylish series about the rough and tumble streets of London’s East End in the 1880s. Mixing boxing, a gang of female thieves, and stories of immigration, the result is a remarkably entertaining six-episode first season.
Actors and Actresses
If you don’t know Sir Ian McKellen, hang your head and turn in your Anglophile card. McKellen is as synonymous with British stage and screen as fish and chips are with its cuisine. He has led numerous stage productions and has been a leading man on television since playing
Tubi
Big Mood’s heartbreaking first season finale left us desperate for what’s next for best friends Maggie (Nicola Coughlan) and Eddie (Lydia West). Will they reconcile, and will Maggie get the help she needs? The Channel 4 show dropped its six episodes on Tubi in April 2024, but since
Better Late Than Never
This one’s for my fellow Hiddlestans! Care of an Apple TV+ free weekend, I spent six episodes of The Essex Serpent (2022) making googly eyes over Tom Hiddleston as Will Ransome, a married pastor trying to resist Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes). Based on Sarah Perry’s 2016 novel of
HBO & HBO Max
Curtis shepherds us through the finale episode of Get Millie Black, declaring his straight act so convincing he almost believed it himself. He fooled everyone except Millie, who clocked the romantic relationship between him and Daniel early into joining the Jamaican police (JPF). He respects Millie but finds her dangerous:
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After four riveting episodes of Get Millie Black, and with the finale arriving over the holiday, will we get a second season? Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James conceived the limited series, bringing to life a side of Jamaica rarely seen: the turbulent streets of Kingston and its distinct class
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Janet speaks for herself in the fourth episode of Get Millie Black, narrating about being underestimated and how her ghetto roots limit her potential – according to others. But Janet is ambitious. She’s not about to settle when she can hunt big game like Freddie Somerville and use him to
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The narration baton is handed to Holborn for Get Millie Black’s third installment* in what is now clearly a pattern. Holborn tells us he grew up with nothing and remarks how that upbringing makes you hungry for everything you don’t have. Now, he is accomplished professionally and personally:
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The second episode of Get Millie Black lands Curtis in the hospital for emergency surgery following his shooting. Millie finds Curtis’ boyfriend, Daniel, fighting with a nurse about being allowed to see him. The nurse snidely says the hospital doesn’t recognize “that kind of family,” Millie steps in, calling
HBO & HBO Max
Atmospheric and instantly engaging, HBO’s Get Millie Black is set in Kingston, Jamaica and follows detective Millie-Jean Black (Tamara Lawrance), who narrates the series. The series premiere, titled "Millie," introduces her as a child (Emeka Onuora), happily painting her brother Orville’s (Zolé Onuora) toenails. But when
FX
Say Nothing, the FX/Hulu limited series adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s bestselling, award-winning 2018 book of the same title, covers forty years of events during The Troubles in Northern Ireland and England. Over the scripted series’ nine hour-long episodes, viewers get to know historical figures of the era
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The David Tennant-led Rivals is funny, clever, and quotable. Although the biggest draws are arguably the shirtless men and countless sex scenes, author Dame Jilly Cooper is a witty one, and her source material is ripe with textual play, which translates well onscreen. Tennant’s character, Lord Tony Baddingham, steals