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Every woman of a certain age knows that menopause is far worse than anyone tells you. I'm not even talking about the stereotypical wildly fluctuating body temperature issue that every male-written show assumes is the bulk of it. I'm talking about the brain fog. (What was
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In what may be the least surprising news of the summer, Netflix has confirmed a second season of Dept. Q has been commissioned. Hailing from Scott Frank, whose adaptation of The Queen's Gambit became an unlikely smash hit in the summer of 2020 for the streaming service, Dept.
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It was over a decade ago, in 2013, that Michael Hirst's Vikings debuted on the American cable network known as The History Channel. Nicknamed "The Hitler Channel" for the sheer amount of World War II-focused series that dominated its lineup, Vikings was The History Channel'
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CL Skelton's two novel opus, The Hardacres Saga, is one of those novels that you could have sworn someone made a period drama adaptation of already, but you would be wrong. That's partly due to an accident of timing; the original novel debuted in 1976, and
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For a series that bills itself as a political drama and hails from former The West Wing and Homeland scribe Debora Cahn, The Diplomat sure loves to go for the most enormous cliffhanger swings imaginable. Season 1 ended with an assassination attempt that left multiple characters' fates uncertain right
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Steven Knight is preparing to return to Netflix in a major way in the next two years with the Peaky Blinders feature film, followed by the long-awaited Season 7 of the gritty period drama. However, before that arrives, 2025 has given him multiple opportunities to make a second first impression
Actors and Actresses
The BBC announced the passing of actor Terence Stamp on Sunday, August 17, 2025. The 87-year-old British star was immediately hailed across American media as "the late star of the 1980s Superman films," or, probably more accurately, "the late co-star of the 1980s Superman films," an
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The Alien series has many originators, but a crotchety British director bears responsibility for the serene but chilling atmosphere that helped propel the slasher-in-space original to global, enduring franchise status. Ridley Scott had only made one other film when he took us onboard the USCSS Nostromo, a towing spacecraft populated
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Silent Witness may be celebrating 28 years on the air, but the series is not the same show that debuted way back in the mid-1990s. The success of The X-Files led to a new "forensic psychology" subset of crime-of-the-week dramas, and this one was initially designed as a
Costume Design
Welcome once again, friends, to Carrie Coon’s Costume Corner, where we look closely at the costume design of The Gilded Age and think out loud about design inspiration, as well as how they reflect and highlight various character relationships. It's been one of this site's
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They say that comedy does better when economic situations get worse, which would explain why Channel 4 has chosen this particular moment in time to bring back the long-awaited revival of David Mitchell and Robert Webb's continuing sketch comedy franchise. The two British comedians have been bringing their
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Long-kept secrets come to the surface and the best laid plans of detectives and thieves go awry in the latest episode of Code of Silence. All begins quietly, when DI James Marsh visits a woman at her home. It turns out she’s Liam’s former foster mother, Dawn. It’