By Anne Brodie A radical feminist who changed the wine landscape for all time is celebrated in Thomas Napper’s Widow Clicquot. It’s 1840 in the fertile Champagne region of France. Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, played with authority by Haley Bennett is married to François (Tom Sturridge) …
The Wonderfully Intimate, Hilarious Family Series Trying May Be Upbeat, But Has a Firm Grasp on the Reality of Infertility and Parenthood. This Charmer’s Back, Baby.
Jason and Nikki, played by Rafe Spall and Esther Smith jump from infertility to adoption and become parents to two kids. And in Trying S4 on Apple TV+ they are teenagers! It’s six years later and those kids grew up, and became functional human beings, despite their parents’ anxieties who …
High Drama, Some True, Some Not, Some Nutty, Some Tragic, in an Anglo-Flavoured Week of Watching.
By Anne Brodie Outrageously, hilariously potty-mouther Wicked Little Letters starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley looks at what can happen in the small English village of Littlehampton in the 20s when a peculiar prank befouls the air. Prim Edith Swan (Colman), a deeply religious, …
Cush Jumbo and Peter Capaldi’s New Series Criminal Record a Searing Expose of Bad Seed Detectives
Cush Jumbo is June, a brilliant rising Detective Inspector in a London Constabulary targeted by her white male superiors who stop at nothing to undercut her work. Believing they're inspired by racism and misogyny she digs down and finds evidence of a serious ethical breach of their office a decade …
Brilliant Dark Dramas, How to Build a Spy, Family Woes, Tossed Salad, Scrambled Eggs and Frasier.
By Anne Brodie Martin Scorsese surpasses himself with the seismic, complex, malicious beauty of Killers of the Flower Moon, the true story of the Osage Indian Murders circa the 1910s to the 1930s. At least sixty and perhaps hundreds of full-blood Osage Indians were murdered or died prematurely by …