The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece on PBS knows exactly what it is and that is the coziest of cozy murder mystery shows. Set in the affluent town of Marlow, the series opens with retired archeologist Judith Potts (Samantha Bond) overhearing something dreadful during a swim in a tributary. Her neighbor has been shot! When the police drag their...
The Roaring Twenties are alive and well in Toronto, Ontario, and Frankie Drake, owner of an all-female detective agency, is busier than ever! From bodies turning up in stolen car trunks to murders on silent films sets, Frankie and her team have a list of high-profile cases and get assistance from the help of a Toronto Morality Office (which was a...
Based on the lives of the three Bronte sisters–Charlotte, Emily, and Anne–this limited series follows their path to authorship from inception to the canonical successes they came to be. That same success, however, came from great hardship due to a sickly father and a mentally ill, alcoholic brother who was set to inherit the small Bronte...
Sanditon was the dreamiest, and most dramatic Jane Austen adaptation yet. Sanditon was Masterpiece on PBS's latest foray into the world of Jane Austen, and it was the most candidly sexual exploration of the author's work yet. Set in a slightly more modern time than her earlier works, the fragment that inspired Sanditon introduced a bold new world...
Sanditon might very well be the Jane Austen adaptation for people who think they're sick of Jane Austen. Based on the author's last unfinished novel, PBS's Sanditon follows the spirited, yet naive, Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) as she enters the wild world of an 1817 seaside resort. Charlotte is there as the friend of the Parkers, whose...
Add country music to the collection of uniquely American explorations that revered filmmaker Ken Burns has undertaken in his now decades long career. The eight part, sixteen hour series Country Music applies the Burns director/producer palette to a twentieth century art form that continues to act as a mirror to our societal evolution. All this...
PBS's sweet new adaptation of Little Women does little to reinvent Louisa May Alcott's literary classic, but that's kind of why it's good. It's still the same simple, loving story, once more told well. Though, this version does add some extra dimension to poor Beth's woes: this version of the tale makes it clear that she was likely suffering from...