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‘Flesh and Blood’ on PBS or Prime Is Worth a Watch

by Carl C. Curtis | Oct 19, 2020 | Featured, Manners, TV/Radio | 0 |

How does one begin to describe ‘Flesh and Blood’? It’s a four-part drama currently...

The Widow: Something To Believe In

by Carl C. Curtis | Apr 2, 2019 | Featured, TV/Radio | 0 |

Amazon Prime Originals’ The Widow opens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with an...

The Good Cop: Watch it on Netflix While You Can.

by Carl C. Curtis | Mar 1, 2019 | Culture, Featured, TV/Radio | 0 |

Patently, he’s a grown-up Boy Scout, a cop who does everything by the book, including the Good Book.

The Durrells on TV: Your Passport to Corfu

by Carl C. Curtis | Nov 9, 2018 | Featured, TV/Radio | 0 |

By the standards of our superhero movie and ‘Game of Thrones’ TV cultures, The Durrells may sound dull, but it is a comedy.

On ‘Midsomer Murders’ — Since When Did Christianity Become a ‘Cult of Death’?

by Carl C. Curtis | Aug 29, 2018 | Culture, Featured, TV/Radio | 3 |

In the context of “The Straw Woman,” the notion of Christianity as a sadomasochistic cult is absurd.

Culture Wars and the Tube: Homosexuality as Happy Ending

by Carl C. Curtis | Sep 15, 2017 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Featured, TV/Radio | 5 |

Our entertainment media too often depict one shining oasis of love and happiness: the homosexual union.

BBC’s Grantchester: Father Brown It Ain’t

by Carl C. Curtis | Aug 12, 2017 | Books, Featured, Media, TV/Radio | 3 |

The PBS/BBC version [does] such violence to James Runcie’s creation that no true fan, except one star-struck with James Norton’s puling Sidney, could countenance the result.

The Handmaid’s Tale: A Leftist Blueprint in Disguise

by Carl C. Curtis | Jul 25, 2017 | Books, Culture, Featured, TV/Radio | 7 |

If Hulu had broadcast a series suggesting any of those barbaric practices against women in a country called, for example, New Iran or Caliphate West, the Left would have been up in arms with cries of “Islamophobia.”

Charles III: Shakespeare For Dummies

by Carl C. Curtis | May 26, 2017 | Culture, Featured, Literature, Manners, Media, TV/Radio | 0 |

For me, Mike Bartlett’s play “Charles III” sinks of its own cleverness and drowns in a flood of clichés.

“Johnny B. Goode” Was Not Good Enough to Be Called ‘Great Music’

by Carl C. Curtis | Apr 28, 2017 | America, Culture, Featured, Music, TV/Radio | 3 |

I contend with absolute conviction that the world would be a better place if Chuck Berry, Elvis, Little Richard, and every Commando of the British Invasion had never lived.