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2020
Jul
15
 
 
NBC's new Peacock service, which officially launches Wednesday, makes a smart bet by including the British series The Capture in its opening-day lineup...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
15
 
 
It's just as hard to create a Utopian community on TV, apparently, as it is in real life. In both cases, the problem stems from the inconvenient and annoying fact that even Utopian communities need to include people...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
14
 
 
The new HBO documentary Showbiz Kids starts by telling us that 20,000 children audition each year for entertainment gigs – TV, movies, commercials, and so on. About 95% get no offers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
13
 
 
The new British series The Nest offers something a little different: a sometimes-creepy psycho-thriller built around the fragile world of surrogate parenting...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
12
 
 
One of Paul Simon's many perfect lines in "The Boxer" had his narrator "seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go / Looking for the places only they would know."...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
10
 
 
"Girl tackles the big city" has been a theme of dramas since forever, so it's no surprise that it has quietly emerged as a consistently interesting subgenre in our current ocean of TV programming...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
6
 
 
Four hours might seem like a long time to trace the history of how America finally and reluctantly granted women the right to vote. If so, just imagine how the passage of time felt to the women...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
5
 
 
Greg Kelley was a high school football star in Texas, and when you're in high school in Texas, life doesn't get much better...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
4
 
 
Check this out for an unintended consequence of the coronavirus pandemic: Streaming television may help rescue the theater...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
2
 
 
If Billions has whetted your appetite for a soapy mystery about shady dealings in the usually impenetrable world of high finance, the Swedish drama (with subtitles) Blinded could provide another eight hours of viewing pleasure...