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In Netflix’s Hostage, Abigail Dalton (Suranne Jones) is eight months into her first term as Prime Minister, and there’s a severe shortage of cancer drugs all across the United Kingdom. As the leader of the opposition tells us in a House of Commons address, she bolstered the flagging
Costume Design
Welcome once again, friends, to Carrie Coon’s Costume Corner, where we look closely at the costume design of The Gilded Age and think out loud about design inspiration, as well as how they reflect and highlight various character relationships. It's been one of this site's
Costume Design
Welcome back to Carrie Coon’s Costume Corner, where we take a costume design enthusiast’s look at the most exuberant, over-the-top, and memorable looks designed by Kasia Walicka Maimone and her team for the cast of The Gilded Age. If you’re new here, prior coverage of Season 3
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The indigenous language of the Hawaiian islands is Ōlelo Hawaiʻi, and it’s critically endangered. When sovereign nations are subject to colonialism, native languages are often suppressed, and government-run schools run by American missionaries and eventual “English only” policies in schools and government ensured that generations of Hawaiians were cut
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Watching a shift in societal mores is usually something that happens at a glacial pace. One looks back after 25 years and discovers that the world has changed from one's childhood, slowly, inexorably, mostly when one was doing other things. But the 2010s were not like that. The
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There was a piece in the Financial Times recently decrying the lack of a monocultural connection as one of the things currently dividing populations; the implication being that siloing oneself entertainment-wise leads to siloing oneself politically. The writer was talking about the U.K., of course, but the same could
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As the soap opera-like drama of Marie Antoinette’s second season plays out, you might not consciously take in all the details of the queen’s surroundings: the glittering chandeliers of Versailles’ grand halls; its imposing marble walls; the rich brocade upholstering of the royal thrones; the ornate furnishings. But
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Who would expect that when Call the Midwife premiered a decade and a half ago, we’d still be enamored with the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House all this time later? We’ve watched Trixie (Helen George) graduate to become a senior nurse, wife, and mother. Nurse Turner (Laura
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Our long international literary adaptation nightmare is over. Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, and Kate Phillips are back on our screens for the next six weeks, and while a great many things are not remotely all right with either the worlds of Tudor England or the present day, at least we
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We haven’t even reached the Spring Equinox yet, and David Mitchell is already having a great 2025, with one brand-new murder mystery series set to debut as he’s shooting episodes for another new series, an as-yet-untitled sketch comedy show with his longtime collaborator Robert Webb. Ludwig will arrive
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It’s easy to praise Netflix’s new drama series Adolescence. Creators Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham have a skill not just for seeing a criminal drama through the “law” stage of booking and processing, but also for stewing in the stressful purgatory before the trial and “order” to explain
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If you’re a fan of getting nosey about other people’s suburban sins, both sexy and sordid, then The Couple Next Door certainly delivered on its promise. In just six episodes, viewers got to witness the undoing of two separate neighboring couples, Danny and Becka Whitwell, played by Sam