Carmen Croghan often looks at the state of her British addiction and wonders how it got so out of hand. A part-time reference library staffer, she spends an inordinate amount of time watching just about any British series she can track down.
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With over one billion (yes, with a "B') viewing hours logged, Stranger Things has become the biggest English language series in Netflix history. Its fourth season is now the biggest show on streaming for 2022, and unless Marvel pulls some sort of superhero miracle, it will probably remain
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This installment of Hotel Portofino picks up where last week's episode left off, with Billy's injured friend relocated from the kitchen to an outbuilding. Anish is called upon in a medical capacity; Constance beckoned to tend to the wounded man. A thunderstorm has whipped up, and
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Hotel Portofino opens with a surprising reveal. Hotel proprietress Bella and her husband Cecil have engaged in some marital activity the night before. While Mr. Ainsworth seems quite pleased with their evening of passion and assumes all is forgiven, Bella is irritable and has misgivings about what, on her part,
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Welcome to the first recap of the new PBS period drama series Hotel Portofino. The series is advertised as a story of "personal awakening at a time of global upheaval in the traumatic aftermath of World War I and the liberating influence of Italy's enchanting culture, climate,
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Anton Lesser is a perfect example of the type of artist our British Actors You Should Know series was intended to highlight. He is an actor with an impressive resume who is comfortable performing in all mediums. Yet many viewers may draw a blank when his name comes up. Midlands-born
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I’m embarrassed to admit that up until the last five years, or so I only knew Fiona Shaw as Aunt Petunia from the Harry Potter franchise. Maybe like me, you weren’t aware of her stellar stage career; that she was part of the “new wave” of actors to
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Another season of Call the Midwife has come to a close, and it was quite a rollercoaster of an episode. You may recall last week’s installment ended with a cliffhanger. A train heading through Poplar crashed with Dr. Turner, Sister Julienne, and Nurse Corrigan on board. While Nancy could
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It’s hard to believe we’re already up to the penultimate episode of this season’s Call the Midwife! When last we were in Poplar, our friends were dealing with arty squatters, a reclusive clairvoyant with a serious health issue and Dr. Turner was trying to get a measles
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As we return to Poplar on Call the Midwife, we immediately notice the Nonnatus staff is depleted. As you probably recall, Nurses Franklin and Crane left home at the end of the last episode; Trixie to nurse her ailing godmother in Italy, Phyllis set out on her dream holiday trip
Mystery
When asked if I would be interested in writing about the most recent screen incarnation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? I jumped at the chance. The casting announcements alone made watching this mini-series must-see TV for me. What Anglophile wouldn’t want to
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It may be Easter Sunday for us, but our Poplar friends are already into late summer/early autumn on Call the Midwife. Just seven short days ago, our midwives were doing what they do- helping a struggling new mother with her distressing nursing woes and finding a way for a
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Believe it or not, we’ve already reached the halfway point of Call the Midwife Season 11. A heatwave has settled over Poplar when, just last week, spring showers were softly falling on attendees of the Nonnatus House centenary celebration. Nurse Corrigan befriended a homeless man with a serious alcohol