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The series Atlantic Crossing has come in for a fair amount of criticism in Europe for its alleged mishandling of history. It was bound to happen, just as viewers of Netflix’s The Crown, couldn’t always separate fact from fiction. Neither The Crown nor Atlantic Crossing ever claimed to
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Netflix's Bridgerton is the fifth biggest series in the streamer's history, proving Regency-era romances are hot stuff. But PBS has known that for years, bringing over British period shows ever since Masterpiece first started airing fifty years ago. Netflix, meanwhile, has... Bridgerton. And that's
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Predicting the future is a fool's errand, but people do it anyway as the New Year arrives. It's hard to know what the next year will bring in the world of television, especially in the wake of this year's pandemic upending filming schedules around
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The trouble with this final episode of COBRA is that we know a second season is in the works, so we expect a finale that both wraps up issues and raises new questions. But this is COBRA, so... not so much. As usual, the tension and stakes in this particular
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As COBRA continues, the net seems to be closing around the Sutherlands. This episode opens with Rachel calmly lying through her teeth to the police; as she tells Robert after, it’s family first, possibly the only sentiment they have in common with People’s Justice leader Scott Minett. Worse,
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Things just aren’t going well for Robert Sutherland in COBRA. In the Red Zone, things are falling apart, with inadequate services, looting, and an ominous consolidation of local powers under the name of People’s Justice, led by the charismatic Scott Minett (Charlie Carrick). Even the reporter covering the
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In this episode of COBRA, the focus turns on Britain’s Red Zone: Northumberland, which is currently without power and awaiting the arrival of a new transformer. Major cities (Newcastle, Sunderland) are uninhabitable. At the university, which was invaded by escapees from the Immigrant Holding facility, a shocked young woman
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As the second episode of COBRA opens, it's evening, three hours after impact, and Prime Minister Robert Sutherland and his team are prepared to work around the clock. Under the Emergency Powers Act, travel is restricted and enforced by the army, and tribunals will deal with civil disorder.
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The first words of COBRA's opening episode are “Mayday, mayday” from the cockpit of a passenger plane in desperate trouble. Systems are failing, the fuel tank is empty, and air traffic controllers work frantically with the crew to find a landing place. As we’ll see, it’s
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Canadian drama Frankie Drake Mysteries has a lot in common with several other series that are popular right now. A period-set mystery, the show follows the adventures of the first all-female detective agency in 1920s Toronto. It feels like the Canadian cousin of Australian drama Miss Fisher's Murder
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Mark your calendars, mystery fans: Season 3 of Frankie Drake Mysteries is officially coming to PBS Passport this month. The third season of the feminist Canadian crime-solving series will officially be available to stream starting Friday, July 10. The period mystery follows the story of the titular Frankie Drake (Lauren
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In the wake of a new theatrical version of Emma and the U.S. broadcast of Sanditon earlier this year, 2020 has proven a pretty great year to be a Jane Austen fan. And with everything going on in the world right now, there may still be no better time