Category: TV/Radio
‘The Crown’ Turns Four
Netflix’s series The Crown has now reached its fourth season and is available in its entirety for...
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Roadkill: Politics as a Not-So-Fine Art
Homeport this is not: the sharks are circling.
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‘Flesh and Blood’ on PBS or Prime Is Worth a Watch
How does one begin to describe ‘Flesh and Blood’? It’s a four-part drama currently...
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The Widow: Something To Believe In
Amazon Prime Originals’ The Widow opens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with an...
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The Good Cop: Watch it on Netflix While You Can.
Patently, he’s a grown-up Boy Scout, a cop who does everything by the book, including the Good Book.
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The Durrells on TV: Your Passport to Corfu
By the standards of our superhero movie and ‘Game of Thrones’ TV cultures, The Durrells may sound dull, but it is a comedy.
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On ‘Midsomer Murders’ — Since When Did Christianity Become a ‘Cult of Death’?
In the context of “The Straw Woman,” the notion of Christianity as a sadomasochistic cult is absurd.
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Culture Wars and the Tube: Homosexuality as Happy Ending
Our entertainment media too often depict one shining oasis of love and happiness: the homosexual union.
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BBC’s Grantchester: Father Brown It Ain’t
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.
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The Handmaid’s Tale: A Leftist Blueprint in Disguise
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.”
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Charles III: Shakespeare For Dummies
For me, Mike Bartlett’s play “Charles III” sinks of its own cleverness and drowns in a flood of clichés.
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“Johnny B. Goode” Was Not Good Enough to Be Called ‘Great Music’
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.
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