Dead Still
Mark your calendars, mystery fans. The darkly comic period new mystery series Dead Still has an official premiere date at last. The new Acorn TV original series will officially premiere on Monday, May 18. Two new episodes will hit the streaming platform that day, with episodes premiering weekly thereafter, through
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
This week's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries begins with a stylized cold open of a couple murdered at the ferry at Queenscliff. It's great timing since that's where Miss Fisher is heading right now in her fabulous car, with Prudence, Dot, and Jane
Leonardo
Poldark fans have been wondering what might be next for handsome series star Aidan Turner - and now we know. He'll be returning to television screens around the world next year, playing master painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci in an upcoming European series called Leonardo. The series will
Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries
Mysteries are a comfort genre. These are soothing stories of the intelligent detective taking a chaotic situation (usually murder most foul) and restoring order by puzzling out the whodunit. In troubled times, readers and viewers turn back to this genre because they want to see smart people using their intelligence
Deadwater Fell
Deadwater Fell is a series that’s deeply interested in forcing us, as viewers, to confront our assumptions and prejudices about the kind of story we’re watching. Thanks to procedurals and true crime podcasts, we’ve all been conditioned to immediately assume one thing: If a woman is dead,
Comedy
The Ricky Gervais dark comedy series After Life will return to Netflix for Season 2 this April, and the first trailer promises more of the same heartfelt, cathartic emotion that made the first season so affecting. After Life follows the story of Tony, a writer for the local newspaper in
MGM+
Belgravia, the scandalously soapy new period drama from Julian Fellowes, is not Downton Abbey. This new series is very different in both style, tone, and time period. Its first episode is a slow build, of which over half is framed as a flashback, with a laundry list of characters whose
Baptiste
Baptiste begins with a cold open in Deal, England, as a beachcombing pensioner arrives home. Apparently, no one told him when a man comes to read the gas meter tossume an assassin, Romanian, in this case, named Constantin (Alec Secăreanu). This killing is rough enough that there's a
Killing Eve
When Killing Eve last left off at the end of Season 2, Eve was lying on the ground in Rome, shot, as Villanelle walked away. It was a direct reversal of the end of Season 1, where Eve left Villanelle lying in a pool of blood after stabbing her. When
PBS
As the second episode of World on Fire begins, we're one month into the war and our characters continue to grapple with love and loss, and make irrevocable decisions. Watch the seires' opening titles closely — in this episode the images we see in quick succession include a
Call the Midwife
Welcome back to another Call the Midwife recap! Elderly narrator Jenny tells us that it is May and spring has truly arrived in Poplar. This week focuses on the outstanding service of Nurses Crane and Anderson (and in Lucille’s case, how dedication to your job can mess with your
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
It's a rare Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries not to open with murder. Instead, this episode drops viewers directly into Miss Fisher's dining room for a seance conducted by the famous psychic Mrs. Bolkonsky (Julie Forsyth). She's trying to contact Roland Claremont, who