A Woman of Substance Review: Emma Harte Builds an Empire from a Bruise
Revenge arrives here wearing a silver-grey bouffant and an accountant’s instinct for structural damage. Channel 4’s new A Woman of...
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Civics lessons rarely benefit from suspense, which is why this five-part Netflix series is at its sharpest when it treats the founding as a sequence of near-failures. The American Experiment, directed by Brian Knappenberger and executive produced by Tom Hanks, looks at the United States from the French and Indian War through the Revolution, the Constitution, and George Washington’s presidency. Its real subject is less the birth of America than the number of ways that birth nearly went wrong. The series arrives for the country’s 250th anniversary with the posture of a public institution: sober, balanced, polished, and very aware...

Revenge arrives here wearing a silver-grey bouffant and an accountant’s instinct for structural damage. Channel 4’s new A Woman of Substance understands Barbara Taylor Bradford’s saga as a fantasy of delayed correction: the poor girl is humiliated, the rich man retreats into cowardice, the house keeps standing, and decades later a woman with money decides that memory should have a balance sheet. That is a dangerous way to adapt this material, because sincerity and ridiculousness are not enemies here. They are co-owners. The eight-part series moves between 1970s New York, where Brenda Blethyn’s older Emma Harte fights a corporate betrayal...

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Larry David looks strangely natural in American history because the past, at least in HBO’s Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, is already a crowded room full of social violations. Someone has chosen the wrong fork. Someone has cut in line. Someone has issued a holiday greeting past its expiration date. Somewhere near the birth of the republic, one man is preparing to turn public grievance into private complaint. That man is Larry, or Lawrence, or Robert Livingston, or Meriwether Lewis, or whoever history needs him to be for a sketch. The name changes. The posture does not. David...
Ba Sing Se turns refuge into etiquette. Nobody has to deny the war loudly when the city has already trained its people to speak around it, smile through it, and treat silence as civic virtue. That choice gives Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2 its strongest reason to exist as live-action television. The first season often seemed trapped between reverence and reinvention, caught in the awkward posture of an adaptation trying to satisfy memory before building its own dramatic language. Season 2 moves with greater confidence because it finds a governing idea: power does not always arrive as flame...

Money has a sound in The Bear Season 5: rain in the walls, pipes coughing up brown liquid, a reservation system multiplying guests like a curse. Christopher Storer’s final season turns finance into weather. Uncle Jimmy’s funding has run out, the restaurant is almost empty of food, the staff is thin, and Carmy Berzatto has announced that he is quitting the profession that has eaten him alive one panic attack at a time. The practical question is simple. Can The Bear survive one final service? The philosophical question is worse. What remains of a dream after the person who started...
Revenge arrives here wearing a silver-grey bouffant and an accountant’s instinct for structural damage. Channel 4’s new A Woman of...
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Read moreCivics lessons rarely benefit from suspense, which is why this five-part Netflix series is at its sharpest when it treats the founding as a sequence of near-failures. The American Experiment,...
Revenge arrives here wearing a silver-grey bouffant and an accountant’s instinct for structural damage. Channel 4’s new A Woman of Substance understands Barbara Taylor Bradford’s saga as a fantasy of...
Los Angeles looks strangely exportable here, which is a problem for a crime film built on territory. The Get Out sets its story in Koreatown, with Russell Crowe’s Manco Kapac...
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Ba Sing Se turns refuge into etiquette. Nobody has to deny the war loudly when the city has already trained its people to speak around it, smile through it, and...
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