Mike Hale

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Mike Hale

Protagonizada por Ricardo Darín, esta adaptación de la novela gráfica escrita por Héctor Germán Oesterheld e ilustrada por Francisco Solano López, se adapta a los nuevos tiempos. El Eternauta, basada en la novela gráfica argentina de la década de 1950 del mismo nombre. Credit... Mariano Landet/Netflix Hay una gran verdad sobre la más que respetable serie de Netflix sobre invasiones alienígenas, El Eternauta: no está mal, pero realmente deberías leer la novela gráfica primero.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Mike Hale

An archetypal Argentine sci-fi graphic novel comes to the screen seven decades after its debut. One true thing to say about Netflix's perfectly decent alien-invasion series "The Eternaut": It's not bad, but you really should read the book first. If you can find a copy, that is.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Mike Hale

"Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light" picks up where "Wolf Hall" left off, amid the gruesome beheading of Anne Boleyn in 1536, which we get to see this time in even more gruesome detail. In real life, however, there has been an unusually long gap between series and sequel. It has been 10 years since the release of "Wolf Hall," based on the first two novels in Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell series.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Mike Hale

After New York and Los Angeles, what is the third city of American crime drama? Boston, Chicago and San Francisco can all make claims, and many might choose Baltimore for "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "The Wire." But lately, another city has been moving up the charts: Philadelphia is suddenly a hot location for moody stories about drugs and murder.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Mike Hale

The United States' relationships with the rest of the world's nations are fluid right now, but one thing is for sure: We keep importing their television shows. Here are some recent additions to what appears to be an increasingly large trade imbalance, at least when it comes to scripted series. With "Bluey" on a hiatus, this cheerfully mesmerizing South Korean cartoon - it's like a crackerjack action blockbuster for toddlers - can fill the animated-puppies vacuum.