Season 3 of Downton Abbey – as soapy, dramatic and witheringly funny as ever, and at times shatteringly sad – begins in the spring of 1920, and everything now has a whiff of the modern. Daisy the kitchen maid rides a bike through the village, Mary and Matthew are planning their wedd...
Read More »Once a spy, always a spy – that’s the premise of the sleekly entertaining and wonderfully (if sometimes implausibly) cast thriller Restless. The two-part period piece on Sundance Channel (Part 1 premieres tonight, Part 2 next Friday) offers a double-whammy of time periods. The story...
Read More »Spies are really having a moment right now, between "Homeland," "Skyfall," USA Network's ongoing "Covert Affairs," FX's upcoming Keri Russell drama and, of course, the Petraeus affair. So the time's ripe for "Restless," the new original m...
Read More »The Sundance Channel has set a premiere date for their new scripted miniseries "Restless," a drama about a young woman who discovers her mother's secret past as a Russian spy working for the British Secret Intelligence Service. "Restless" will air on the network on December 7...
Read More »Heading into this Sunday’s Christmas-themed finale of Downton Abbey, you might worry that the season would end with another excruciating cliff-hanger. Mary and Matthew are undoubtedly in love, but will the question of their on-and-off and currently still-off engagement be resolved? (Reall...
Read More »One of the surest signs that Downton Abbey has become a full-blown hit and pop-cult phenomenon is the mini- and strained flap that has erupted about whether it is snobbish or middle-brow or an old-fashioned soap opera. I don’t see why it can’t be all three. The series satisfies our indul...
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