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“I Know This Much Is True” is that rare TV series that resonates deeply and viscerally — thanks to its emotional, thought-provoking themes and a bravura performance from star Mark Ruffalo. The HBO drama is adapted from Wally Lamb’s 1998 bestseller, which took a long and winding two-decade road to the small screen in telling …
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Marcia Gay Harden had some interpretive freedom regarding Mathilde, the strong-willed innkeeper she plays in “Barkskins,” Nat Geo’s new historical drama set in 1690s New France. The Monday-night series, co-starring David Thewlis (“Big Mouth,” “Fargo”), is based on Annie Proulx’s 2016 novel and is set in Wobik, a small settlement in what’s now the Canadian …
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The psychological melodrama “Penance” is, by turns, creepy, silly, predictable and overwrought — and would fit snugly into Lifetime’s over-the-top “women-in-jeopardy” lineup. The three-part series, premiering Thursday on Sundance Now, first aired in March on England’s Channel 5 network. So it’s got a leg up on its American genre counterpart, since the Brits also seem …
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The crime drama “Hightown,” set in Cape Cod, combines three unlikely topics — the opioid epidemic, the LGBT community and some good old-fashioned murder. Premiering Sunday on Starz (8 p.m.), “Hightown” follows Jackie Quiñones (Monica Raymund, “Chicago Fire”), a hard-partying lesbian National Marine Fisheries service agent who discovers a body on the beach, a murder …
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Fans of feminist cult icons everywhere are reeling at the recent discovery that Dolly Parton, best known for slaying the country music charts, had a producer side gig that brought late ’90s teen sci-fi series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” to television. Parton — who recently donated $1 million to coronavirus research — is not credited …
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Life imitated art for “Paradise Lost” star Bridget Regan when she filmed the new Spectrum drama. “My character uproots her life from Palo Alto, Calif, and moves out to Mississippi, and so there was this symbiotic thing of me and my character going through the same thing — taking it all in and noticing all …
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Apple’s new series “Home Before Dark” is a crime drama with child reporters. It’s based on the true story of Hilde Lysiak (played by Brooklynn Prince), a 9-year-old journalist who broke a local murder story in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, in 2016. (Her name in the series is Hilde Lisko.) Jim Sturgess, who stars as her father, …
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Helen Hunt says Nancy Campbell, the fictional reporter she plays in the war drama “World on Fire,” is based on two different real-life journalists: William Shirer, who chronicled Hitler’s rise to power for CBS Radio, and Claire Hollingworth, the Daily Telegraph reporter whose “scoop of the century” broke the news that Germany invaded Poland — …
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“You know that I came here to kill you.” With those chilling words, Jamie Burns (Matt Bomer) began his final bloody exit on Thursday night’s Season 3 finale of “The Sinner,” the USA crime drama anthology that puts wily, nearly retired detective Harry Ambrose in the midst of some strange police investigations. Tracking down Burns, …
“I Know This Much Is True” is that rare TV series that resonates deeply and viscerally — thanks to its emotional, thought-provoking themes and a bravura performance from star Mark Ruffalo. The HBO drama is adapted from Wally Lamb’s 1998 bestseller, which took a long and winding two-decade road to the small screen in telling …
