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The proverbial merde hits the fan in Marie Antoinette’s sixth episode of Season 2, “Hated, Humbled, Mortified,” as the trial against Cardinal Rohan begins. This will be the trial of the century (until eight years later, when the king and queen themselves will each be tried – months apart – and
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It was officially time for a summer vacation in the latest episode of Call the Midwife. Reggie (Daniel Laurie) returned to town for the holidays, but it was still full-time work for the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House. Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) was looped into a case with an
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The end of the spring is just around the corner, and the PBS Sunday series lineup, which premiered in early spring, is starting to wrap up. The Wolf Hall sequel, Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light, concludes in the final week of April, though viewers should expect local stations
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If anything's a sure thing in the world of entertainment nowadays, it's murder. With procedurals of every stripe popping up everywhere, there's something for every kind of viewer, whether your taste runs to grisly true crime or more cozy series in idyllic locations where
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Welcome to the mid-season report on the best costumes for Marie Antoinette’s second season. Personal and political machinations from just about every character continue to unfold, including the Queen’s public image, marriage, and extra-marital relationship; the fortunes of various publicly loyal but privately threatening courtiers; and of course,
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In a title that nods (knowingly?) to Marvel’s Avengers, Marie Antoinette’s fifth episode, “Enemies Assemble,” brings the scandal of the stolen diamond necklace to the forefront. In a shocking move, Cardinal Rohan is arrested on suspicion of theft and dragged away for questioning in the middle of leading
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The penultimate episode of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light finally sees Thomas Cromwell's luck run out. It's a testament to this show's quality that this development — a well-documented historical fact! — manages to feel shocking. A sense of vague doom has followed Cromwell
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Call the Midwife was back in tear-jerker order this week with an unexpectedly devastating new case. A young mother suffered a shocking tragedy in the final weeks of her pregnancy and needed her entire family to help her work through those trying last days. Luckily, it wasn't all
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Mirrors! Lights! Camera! Action! It’s time for another spin through the lookbooks of Wolf Hall's second season, The Mirror and The Light, in search of the most remarkable costumes. This week's column will cover Episodes 2 through 4 ("Obedience," "Defiance," and
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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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Wolf Hall is dominated by themes of marriage, pregnancy, and childbirth, a primary concern for the first two generations of Tudors, which only loomed larger as Henry started going through wives like tissue paper, as he does in The Mirror & the Light. The Church controlled marriages for centuries in
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The second season of Marie Antoinette brings new faces and new rivals, the most prominent being Jeanne de Valois (Freya Mavor). Jeanne is almost as much a main character as Marie Antoinette (Emilia Schüle) this season, and her outsized role in the queen’s life and death are key set