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Amazon Prime’s three-part series The Pursuit of Love may cover the same time period as Downton Abbey but the similarities between the two period dramas end right there. This is a fast-moving, funny, rude, sexy story about eccentric aristocrats behaving badly, which takes you by surprise with an emotional
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Amazon has released the trailer for the buzzy BBC period drama The Pursuit of Love starring Lily James, Emily Beecham, Dominic West, Andrew Scott, Dolly Wells, and more. And spoiler alert, it looks like precisely the frothy romantic delight we've been waiting for since the Bridgerton hiatus started.
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Period drama The Pursuit of Love premiered on the BBC earlier this spring to rave reviews and now American audiences will finally get to see the buzzy adaptation for themselves this summer, thanks to Amazon Prime Video Based on Nancy Mitford's groundbreaking 1945 novel of the same name,
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HBO and HBO Max are known for featuring the creme-de-la-creme of Brit-led content, either co-productions like Chernobyl or shows studded with U.K. talent, like The Nevers. But HBO has also long done original movies, some of which are also British-backed pieces. The channel has brought over everything from Peter
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In last week's recap, I mentioned that the original plan for His Dark Materials Season 2 was to do eight episodes, the last of which was still unfinished as of the premiere date due to the coronavirus pandemic. During the series' Comic Con at Home panel over
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His Dark Materials Season 2 was initially ordered at eight episodes, the same as Season 1. The BBC put in this order in early fall of 2019, sending the cast and crew back to work early. Of those eight episodes, seven were completed before the end of the year. The
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As His Dark Materials reaches the back half of the second season, the main plot thread continues to focus on Will and Lyra as they plan out a high stakes heist to get the alethiometer back from Boreal. This week's A-plot is all about the two of them
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When His Dark Materials introduced Lyra's Earth in Season 1, it did so directly and straightforwardly. One might even say (and I did, several times) that it was so matter-of-fact in its delivery, it drained the magic out of a mirror universe to our own, which was filled
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This week's His Dark Materials begins with Lyra taking a chance that she can get away with infiltrating Will's Earth twice without getting caught. Even without Pan sounding the alarm, audiences can guess that the second round won't go nearly as smoothly as the
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His Dark Materials landed in Cittàgazze for the premiere episode, introducing a third world between Land Will-Earth and Lyra-Counter-Earth, sort of an "Earth Mark 3," in which Dust is a malevolent force. This week, Will and Lyra take their leave of the city of children (after a bit
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The His Dark Materials trilogy is made up of three very segmented novels. Book one, known either as The Golden Compass or The Northern Lights, depending on which side of the pond you're on, exists utterly in Lyra's world. It's a mirror universe where
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The trailer for the second season of HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials promises a dark and epic ride - featuring everything from grand battles and air-balloon chases to militant witches and the debut of Andrew Scott. Based on the bestselling series from author Philip Pullman, Season 1 of the