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The interwar period was a time of massive social change in England, as the Great War swept through with technological marvels and a greater chance at equality than ever before, even as the aristocratic families that once ruled the social world went bankrupt. It was also the dawn of celebrity
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Talk about the galaxy having ironic timing. Andor, Star Wars’ best and most politically engaged streaming series, returns April 22 for its second and final season, and boy, does it hit hard in our current global political climate. Tony Gilroy’s sweeping, inspiring, and incredibly mature prequel series tracks the
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Heartstopper Season 3 surprised many of its fans who had come to regard the series as a comfort watch. After two seasons of watching teen boys Nick (Kit Conner) and Charlie (Joe Locke) slow-motion fall in love with all the joyful and celebratory feelings that come along with it, reality
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Our first look at ITV's The Assembly is here, and it looks just as surprising and heartwarming as its predecessors. The four-part series is an adaptation of Les Rencontres du Papotin, a unique interview series that features well-known public figures — from celebrities and sports stars to politicians — sitting
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BritBox has not set a premiere date as yet for the U.S. debut of Code of Silence, but in the U.K., ITV has it slated for mid-May. The new, wholly original police procedural hails from writer Catherine Moulton, who PBS viewers will know from her work on Baptiste,
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The average American reader is probably not very familiar with Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen or his wildly popular series of thrillers, the Department Q series, initially titled Afdeling Q in Danish. Currently at ten books, with the last one published in 2022, Netflix acquired the rights to produce the first-ever
Movies
Our first look at buzzy feature film The Roses is here, and it's essentially got awards-bait written all over it. From the star-studded cast, led by Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (The Thing with Feathers) and Oscar winner Olivia Colman (Wicked Little Letters), to its buzzy pedigree, everything about
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The title of this week's Watson is "The Man with the Alien Hand." That immediately brings up images of James Moriarty (Randall Park) and his fused fingers, but he wasn't the eponymous character in this case. That honor belonged to a wealthy man named
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In a title that nods (knowingly?) to Marvel’s Avengers, Marie Antoinette’s fifth episode, “Enemies Assemble,” brings the scandal of the stolen diamond necklace to the forefront. In a shocking move, Cardinal Rohan is arrested on suspicion of theft and dragged away for questioning in the middle of leading
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The penultimate episode of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light finally sees Thomas Cromwell's luck run out. It's a testament to this show's quality that this development — a well-documented historical fact! — manages to feel shocking. A sense of vague doom has followed Cromwell
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Call the Midwife was back in tear-jerker order this week with an unexpectedly devastating new case. A young mother suffered a shocking tragedy in the final weeks of her pregnancy and needed her entire family to help her work through those trying last days. Luckily, it wasn't all
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As is often the case in murder mysteries, a man behaved very badly and everyone in his proximity paid dearly. In the BBC and BritBox’s miniseries adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, the collateral all told is two murders — Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston) and her estate barrister,