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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
PBS
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,
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The introduction of any new companion to the world of Doctor Who tends to follow a few predictable patterns: The Doctor usually meets a new traveling partner on Earth, introducing them to the existence of things like aliens and the concept of time travel in a familiar environment before whisking
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Credit to Towards Zero, a good murder mystery solution should feel, in retrospect, inevitable, even if we didn’t necessarily see them coming. Granted, the small number of suspects in Towards Zero meant that the grand reveal of Neville Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) as the killer was pretty likely. Purely numerically,
Sundance Now
No one can deny that one of the significant appeals of historical series is the sweeping vistas and landscapes, not to mention the ancient architecture and buildings. This is also true of contemporary series; for instance, Death in Paradise is all about getting to stare at the Caribbean in the
Movies
It would be impossible to list out all the various adaptations of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, even if one were to stick to only those committed to film. Moreover, much like Pride & Prejudice, feature-length stories of the star-crossed lovers seem to function on a generational scale
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Despite technically referring to two completely different languages, the word "Gaelic" is one that's fraught with emotional baggage in the U.K., as the last century saw the Irish variant become the language of rebellion and terrorists in the most recent major bout of "The
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In the first episode of the BBC and BritBox miniseries adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, there was an abundance of table setting (literally and figuratively) to introduce Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston), her assistant Mary (Anjana Vasan) and the ensemble of family and friends who orbit her bed
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Inspector Leach (Matthew Rhys) survived his fall from the Devon sea cliffs at the end of Towards Zero’s premiere. As there were no dead bodies in the first episode, the cliffhanger of the depressed, alcoholic police officer trying to kill himself seemed like it would be the only death