Apple TV
Apple TV+ has officially renewed its darkly comedic murder mystery Bad Sisters for a second season. Given the amount of critical acclaim (and, more importantly, the steadily increasing word-of-mouth buzz) this series has picked up over the course of its run this move isn't terribly surprising. But it
Netflix
Growing up, there were three truths about the holidays. Jo is right: Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, the Grinch's heart would grow three sizes, and Scrooge will go from asking, "Are there no workhouses?" to buying a turkey the size of Tiny
Mystery
Last week, Annika ended with both mother and daughter diving headfirst into relationships they're keeping on the down low from one another: Annika with Morgan's former therapist, Dr. Jake, and Morgan with Annika's coworker's sister Erin. This week continues the sneaking about
PBS
This week’s episode of Magpie Murders again opens with a flashback to 2015, and Alan Conway is leading a writing workshop. He reads an excerpt from his manuscript, The Slide, and encourages the class to comment. Lee Jaffrey (remember him?) ventures some mild praise, but another participant says he
Miss Scarlet (and the Duke)
Like Season 1, the penultimate episode of Miss Scarlet and the Duke Season 2 feels like the first half of a two-parter, even though it's not labeled as such. But it ends on what is essentially (for this show, at least) a cliffhanger. It leaves several primary plot
The Crown
Season 5 of The Crown brings Peter Morgan's sprawling story of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II into the early 1990s, a particularly tumultuous time in her own history and one of the darkest periods the monarchy itself ever faced. It's not an exaggeration to say
The Great British Baking Show
Netflix has a problem. Ever since the streaming service woke up one morning to find that the Walt Disney Company was terminating its contract to give Netflix exclusive first streaming rights — one that took years to hammer out and implement and had been in effect for all of a year
All Creatures Great and Small
On the original All Creatures Great and Small, which ran from 1978 to 1990, James Herriott marries his love, Helen Alderson, in the drama's very first season, before ten episodes had even passed. In real life, Alf Wright (who wrote the books this series is based on under
Netflix
Although many of us love period dramas, far too many viewers assume that historical costume drama is strictly the purview of British and/or English-language television. And even these often tend to fall into specific buckets: stories about Tudor England, the Regency period, the Victorian era, or the years surrounding
Netflix
Since choosing to continue with his commitment to The Time Traveler's Wife instead of returning as Sidney Parker for Sanditon's surprise second season, Theo James has been casting about for a new hit. He was seen as part of the main cast for the feature film
Movies
One of the best things about historical dramas is that they are uniquely capable of introducing modern-day audiences to stories they don't know. Sure, some of them retread the same ground regarding setting and characters. (Love you, Anne Boleyn, but Henry VIII did have five other wives!) But
Paramount+
Amor Towles' novel A Gentleman in Moscow was primed to be a hit before it ever arrived on bookshelves. The first follow-up to his New York Times best-seller, Rules of Civility, the story of the fictional Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, tracing the fall of the Russian aristocracy, was out