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This week’s episode of Magpie Murders again opens with a flashback to 2015, and Alan Conway is leading a writing workshop. He reads an excerpt from his manuscript, The Slide, and encourages the class to comment. Lee Jaffrey (remember him?) ventures some mild praise, but another participant says he
The Crown
Season 5 of The Crown brings Peter Morgan's sprawling story of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II into the early 1990s, a particularly tumultuous time in her own history and one of the darkest periods the monarchy itself ever faced. It's not an exaggeration to say
Starz
Starz is on a bit of a French history bender following The Serpent Queen, going from the Tudor and Elizabeathan era to its version of pre-revolutionary France in Dangerous Liaisons. Despite sharing a name with the famous 1988 film adaptation, Starz’s new eight-part series is actually a prequel to
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Magpie Murder’s 4th episode begins with a flashback to a friendly catch-up between Susan’s sister, Katie, and Alan Conway in a coffee shop. Katie seems pleasantly surprised that the author is interested in hearing about her and her family. But by now, we all know Conway is only
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The third episode of Magpie Murders begins not in the present or the fictional past but in a flashback. Seven years earlier, Susan Ryeland and Alan Conway are in the midst of a vigorous disagreement. Alan has written a flashback scene about a young Atticus Pünd in a Nazi concentration
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As this second installment of Magpie Murders begins, viewers are plunged right back into Alan Conway’s final Atticus Pünd novel. We learn that a second death has occurred in Saxby-on-Avon at Pye Hall, and there’s no doubt this one is murder. The lord of the manor, Sir Magnus
The Crown
Queen Elizabeth II hasn't been gone for 45 days yet, and yet, her story is about to become one of November's most highly anticipated debuts. Netflix's The Crown, which has been chronicling the life of the late monarch decade by decade since 2016, has
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PBS’ newest mystery series, Magpie Murders, opens with a montage of Alan Conway Conleth Hill) struggling to produce chapter after chapter in his latest whodunit in the wildly popular Atticus Pünd series. (Think Poirot, but German rather than Belgian.) Once the novel is completed, Conway snaps his fountain pen, splattering
The Crown
Netflix's smash hit period drama The Crown, which dramatizes the story of Queen Elizabeth II and her family, will launch its highly anticipated fifth season this November. Still, the show will arrive in a world that's much changed, at least when it comes to the British
Mystery
Fall is traditionally a time for mystery series on PBS. This year is no different, with the returns of Van der Valk and Miss Scarlet & the Duke and the premiere of new crime drama Annika, starring longtime Masterpiece fan favorite Nicola Walker. But the arrival of the highly anticipated
BritBox
BBC’s Sherwood was the must-see series of Summer 2022 in the UK. Social media was abuzz after each of the six episodes, and a second season has already been commissioned. Four months later, the acclaimed British drama has come to our shores via BritBox, with all episodes streaming starting
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Since Masterpiece announced in 2020 that it would adapt British author Anthony Horowitz's novel Magpie Murders to series, viewers have been anticipating having Lesley Manville as an amateur sleuth solving a mystery via the victim's novel. Little did they know it would come as part of