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Series finales have a lot of work to do, and that sometimes can go double for the finale of a show’s first season as it tries to stick the landing for the first time. The goals they aim for can support and/or undermine one another. That baked-in tension
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Sophie was flying high in last week's Funny Woman; this week, she’s laid low. Some would say she has only herself to blame, and to those people, I issue a very loud and rude raspberry while showing them the door directly out. We have neither time nor
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Funny Woman’s fourth episode is a dizzying bunch of swings and roundabouts — Sophie and Clive enjoy a honeymoon period, a bubble that can’t help but be burst; the entire Jim and Barbara team produce their funniest and sharpest episode yet, only to see CTV head of light entertainment
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This week on Funny Woman, a slew of firsts for Sophie: her first live recording of a sitcom before a live studio audience (an episode that then airs on tv! And is approved for an entire six-episode run!), first tampon use, first chat show appearance and groovy nightclub visit, first
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Funny Woman's second episode is another 45 minutes of Barbara Parker / Sophie Straw very casually (and only occasionally with intent) running rings around every man she encounters. Clive Richardson’s smarm doesn’t intimidate her; Dennis Mohindra, Bill Gardner, and Tony Holmes are all delighted to fall under
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Welcome to Funny Woman, a show that asks, what if The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, but uniquely British? Yes, please! The six-part adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel Funny Girl (retitled for previously existing stage and
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Since the winter of 2021, PBS has centered its January premieres around All Creatures Great & Small. Based on the book of the same name, the series tells the real-life story of James Herriot, a Scottish veterinarian who was transplanted to Yorkshire in the 1930s and wrote about his experiences.
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Period drama Beecham House ends much the way it lived – as a ridiculous, nonsensical mess that should have been much better than it turned out to be. The finale has a little bit of everything: John triumphing repeatedly despite having no reason to do so, Margaret being awesome, Chanchal getting
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In the penultimate episode of Beecham House, it’s more obvious than ever that someone somewhere expected this series to get another season. Because with just one more episode to go after this one, the show is busily expanding stories rather than wrapping them up, and it feels all the
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The truth about John Beecham’s past comes to light in a ridiculously over the top episode of Beecham House that is simultaneously eye-rollingly predictable and also much more entertaining than anything that’s come before. Is that an improvement? Technically speaking, yes, but it’s not like the bar
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Here’s a fact that may surprise you: With this episode, we’re now officially halfway through Beecham House Doesn’t it...feel like we should be further along in this story? Or, at least, really even know what the story the show’s trying to tell is? Sigh. Look,
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Beecham House is so frustrating precisely because it should be good. On paper, it’s a story that hasn’t really be done before, set in a period we rarely get to see in shows like this. In actuality, however, it’s a trope-filled retread with tremendously dull storytelling, generally