My husband took off on a week-long ski trip, leaving me and the dogs the entire couch and total control of the remote. Scrolling through the endless list of movie and series options with no idea what I might be in the mood for (and nothing looking particularly good), I stumbled across The Black Dagger…
On November 2, 2025, MGM+ released the latest in a very long and prodigious line of adaptations of the Robin Hood story. Appropriately – if unoriginally – named Robin Hood, it’s a ten part series that tackles the Robin Hood mythos with a relatively unknown (to me) cast in the lead roles, with the exception…
I was overjoyed when I learned that Rachel Reid’s Heated Rivalry was going to be adapted into a six-part TV series. (I was less so when I found out that the international distribution deal doesn’t include the UK, but that’s a moan for another time!) Sports romance – especially hockey romance – is a huge…
I had a damn good time watching TV this year. Not everything wowed me–Reacher was a slog, I don’t understand the now old buzz about The Blacklist, Wisting was too gloomy, and The Bear, a yawn. But these are quibbles in a very good year. And for the purposes of this column, I’m sticking to…
I’m watching Season Three of Reacher—my husband, who loves the books, is also suffering through it—and I am furious. Not just at the show, which is violently dull and predictably brutal, but at the culture that continues to treat this blood-soaked void as serious storytelling. We’re three seasons in, and the only evolution is that…
This year I discovered TV Time, a well-designed app that makes it easy to keep track of the shows you’ve watched and want to watch. Thus, I can tell you with complete confidence that my favorite TV show of 2024 is Hacks…. or Black Doves … or The Diplomat. I CAN’T CHOOSE–2024 was a year of so…
When I learned that Amazon Prime had made a TV series based on the life of Lady Jane Grey, England’s doomed Nine-Day Queen, I was intrigued. But when I watched the trailer for My Lady Jane which painted the show as a comical take on the poor girl’s life, I was confused. Jane Grey’s story…
I have, for the past two months, been reading Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August. This, dear readers, is astonishing. And I’m not talking about the book although it is phenomenal. No–it’s that I’ve stuck with and enjoyed this book! It’s non-fiction (not my usual fare), over 700 pages long, and about war (a topic…
If you haven’t checked out Hulu/Disney+’s charming miniseries, The Artful Dodger, please find the nearest streaming device as soon as possible, because this one is a true gem, so good I’m giddy about finding converts to watch it. Released in November of 2023, the story picks up fifteen years after the ending of Charles Dickens’…
Last week, the Washington Post had an in depth article about the British show Naked Attraction. I was startled to read that the show: The U.S. trailer asks viewers: “What do men and women really find physically attractive?” The “chooser” will then winnow down from a pool of six potential dates — whose fully nude…
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