A Very English Scandal

In 1961, Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant) has a romantic affair with a troubled young man, Norman (Ben Whishaw); as Thorpe’s political career takes off, Norman gets back in…

The Dying Detective 

Lars Martin Johansson (Rolf Lassgård) has retired, but after surviving a stroke he needs rehabilitation and turns his attention to a cold case, the murder of a girl. The third…

It 

When a little girl is murdered in Derry, Maine, a group of now adult friends fear that the enemy they battled as children is back, a monster who took the…

Bates Motel 

Exploring the mother-son relationship behind Psycho (1960) in a TV series seemed like an intriguing idea. The show got a modern-day setting in Oregon and the story began with Norma…

Looking 

One of the most explicit TV series ever made about gay men followed a group of friends in San Francisco, with focus on the 29-year-old game designer Patrick (Jonathan Groff)…

Downton Abbey: An Empire in Change

Photo: ITV I’ve lost count of how many times various actors have come to my country to promote a new season of Downton Abbey. It hasn’t always been the biggest…

CSI: Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Paul Guilfoyle, Marg Helgenberger, Jorja Fox, Gary Dourdan, William Petersen and George Eads. Photo: CBS In the fall of 2000, a remake of the old thriller series The Fugitive (1963-1967)…

Hannibal

After several popular movie adaptations, author Thomas Harris’s iconic serial killer Hannibal Lecter got his own TV series – and showrunner Bryan Fuller created a distinct style. Initially, the story…

Mad Men: A Love Letter Laced With Acid

Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, January Jones, Jared Harris, Vincent Kartheiser, Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss. Photo: AMC Walking down Madison Avenue in New York City is a dream where you…

The Newsroom 

Aaron Sorkin’s return to television was touted as a classic network drama made for cable, taking us behind the scenes of ACN, a fictional cable news network, where a legendary…