Lewis Whittington
Magic Color Clock from the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Americanization of the groundbreaking British series, Queer as Folk, has been a hit and miss affair. Desperate to stay at the head of the ...
Lewis Whittington
How queer can Queer As Folk be as Showtime’s hottest series? It depends. If you are an activist transsexual lesbian fighting for a seat on the city council to represent sexual minorities, it probably offers nothing much. Yet, this ...
Nina Nichols
McCallum, the new crime thriller made by Scottish television, is for nice people. There's only a token flash of sex or violence now and then in the sight of a bruised corpse. Its not big on cool cats like ...
Scott Von Doviak
“Don’t you love me?” one character asks another in an unexpectedly fragile moment early in the fifth season of The Sopranos. It’s the key question that haunts the first four episodes of the long-awaited return engagement by America’s favorite ...
Les Wright
Liam Marple writes a gossip column for a British tabloid under the pseudonym Mrs. Jones. The name of the column reverberates, ironically, with Mother Jones, the progressive feminist magazine, but actually ties in to the theme song, the old ...
Les Wright
Wire in the Blood, the BBC America police drama series about to begin its second broadcast season, stars Robson Green as clinical psychologist Tony Hill and Hermione Norris as Detective Inspector Carol Jordan. Not unexpectedly, after a very promising ...
Nina Nichols
A new series of dramas by BBC America called The Sins turns its back on the bad, old underworld of crime and punishment and attends to the ills of the spirit. In the first episode, "Pride," prison doors open ...
Nina Nichols
If the initial episodes truly represent this new series of detective mysteries from BBC America, Waking The Dead will appeal to wide audiences, enthrall afficionados of the genre, and earn astronomically high ratings. The startling title says it all ...
Lewis Whittington
The new 7-part BBC America series The Vice starts off looking like a Prime Suspect knock-off. With pounds of lurid exposition and character baggage, it quickly becomes a tug of war between "gripping" storylines and arrested character development. This ...
Scott Von Doviak
Carnivale HBO Series Click the poster to buy at MovieGoods.com Through a combination of shrewd marketing and high-quality programming, HBO has ...
