Culture
Though it's been said before, it's worth repeating: There's never been a better time to be an Anglophile. Sure, to watch everything we'd like to see, we're basically required to pony up the cash to access a half dozen different
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As almost every viewer knows by now, the streaming world is a cruel mistress. From Netflix to Prime Video to Disney+, there's a veritable graveyard of promising original series gone too soon, ditched before they could find an audience. The past year or so has been ruthless in
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Prime Video's adaptation of My Lady Jane is fiercely feminist, funny, and extremely creative with history, so don’t expect the right sort of gable hoods in this adventurous fantasy. Author Cynthia Hand is one of a trio of writers (with Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows) who collaborated
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If you're at all familiar with the story of Lady Jane Grey, it's probably because of the tragic turn her young life took. Known as the Nine Days' Queen, she was just sixteen years old when she was installed on the throne of England as
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There are two kinds of period pieces that are coming out of of prestige TV currently. There's the super-committed, extremely faithful type, exemplified by shows like Wolf Hall, where even the hair feels unwashed, and the lighting feels like it's utterly naturalistic. Then there's
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Prime Video has confirmed a roster of over a dozen new cast members for its forthcoming adaptation of My Lady Jane, an eight-part series based on the popular YA historical fantasy novel of the same name. It follows the story of Jane Grey, niece of King Henry VIII, who was
Drama
As we've seen many times, our pop culture is positively obsessed with England's Tudor family. From the soapy melodrama of King Henry VIII's disastrous marriage track record to the untold stories of the complicated women who essentially all outshone him, we can't