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Most people have heard of the iconic Irish author James Joyce, if only because we were probably required to read either Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or short stories from The Dubliners in high school. But he was one of the most influential writers of the 20th
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Antonin Carême life has gotten more complicated as his successes compound. Having passed the halfway point and with only two episodes left after Episode 6, "Trompe L’oeil," Carême, the drama was bound to escalate, especially as the series reaches 1815 and the "hundred days" where
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Although Americans, as a general rule, love British period dramas, we don't necessarily make many of our own. There are, of course, some notable exceptions. The 1939 Civil War drama Gone with the Wind remains one of the most popular movies of all time, and more recent efforts,
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Netflix initially announced it was commissioning Neil Forsyth's Legends at the 2024 Edinburgh Film Festival, more than six months before the principal cast was confirmed. Filming on the series, which is based on the real-life decision by Her Majesty's Customs & Excise department in the late
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In the latest update from what feels like a never-ending stream of bad news for genre fans everywhere, Prime Video has announced that its prestige adaptation of The Wheel of Time won't be returning for a fourth season. The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills and all that,
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No matter which reboot or what season, showrunner Russell T. Davies' version of Doctor Who has a few...let's call them "consistencies." His Doctors are morally complex figures who are optimists at heart, although they carry around no small amount of trauma (Fourteen's
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Despite being one of the fifty United States, the history of the Hawaiian Islands is not covered much in American schools, or European ones, for that matter. That's because the history of white people and the Pacific Islands in general is pretty ugly, like "gifting smallpox blankets&
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Once upon a time, high-end British series that aired in the U.S. were almost uniformly period/costume dramas. But the last decade hasn't just seen a surge in British programming crossing the pond; it's also seen a shift in British tastes. Until the mid-1980s, the
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The rise of "Prestige TV" has had multiple effects on the entertainment landscape, most of which have been positive developments. High-quality literature, some of which was never considered a possibility for TV adaptations prior to the successes of Game of Thrones and Outlander in the early 2010s, began
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Well, well, well. The biggest surprise of the I, Jack Wright finale isn’t who killed the titular character. It’s that the whole thing ended with a “to be continued.” WHAT? Apparently, the greatest trick the devil (and Chris Lang) ever pulled was getting us to believe I, Jack
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Apple TV+'s exuberant, chaotic period drama The Buccaneers is set to return for its second season next month, and if the trailer is anything to go by, both the titular girl gang of besties and the audience watching at home are in for a wild ride. The story,
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It is a truth universally acknowledged (by those who are self-aware, at any rate) that every person is the hero of their own story. It's one reason the rise of the antihero in storytelling over the past few decades has resonated so strongly with audiences: the uncomfortable tension