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…

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…

The Fourth Man

The sequel to Death of a Pilgrim (2013) also hops between three different time periods, depicting intrigue behind the 1975 occupation of the West German embassy in Stockholm; a murder…

Dallas: Soap Opera Royalty

Steve Kanaly, Patrick Duffy, Victoria Principal, Jim Davis, Barbara Bel Geddes, Larry Hagman, Charlene Tilton and Linda Gray. Photo: CBS When we think about 1980s television, the supersoaps tend to…

Death of a Pilgrim 

Lars Martin Johansson (Rolf Lassgård), head of the Swedish National Criminal Investigation Department, discreetly gathers a suitable group of detectives, aiming to take a fresh, comprehensive look at the 1986…

The Girl

Former model Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller) is thrilled to learn that Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) is choosing her to star in his next movie… but the professional relationship quickly turns…