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1 week ago | 
thewrap.com | Thelma Adams |Jose Alejandro Bastidas
Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks couldn’t be better matched as sisters who’ve landed on the opposite ends of easy street. It’s entertaining to watch the women act opposite each other, biting into their succulent roles as siblings in a long-simmering feud. In Prime Video’s “The Better Sister,” airing on May 29th, this pair harbors so many shared secrets they would need a storage unit to contain them.
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2 months ago | 
thewrap.com | Thelma Adams |Jose Alejandro Bastidas
The talented Amanda Seyfried (“The Dropout”), the thinking woman’s beauty, joins the hard-working, blue-collar women of crime. “Long Bright River,” the gritty Peacock limited series of eight bingeable episodes, follows in the sensible flats of investigative reporter Amy Adams in “Sharp Objects” and Jodie Foster in “True Detective: Night Country.” Please, don’t ask these women to smile.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Thelma Adams
Your TV GPS, a look at the week ahead in television, appears every Monday morning on BostonGlobe.com. Today’s column covers Jan. 20-Jan. 26. Famed for being second banana to the fictional Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson was also Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s chronicler of the famed fictional detective, in addition to being a retired British army surgeon wounded in Afghanistan.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Thelma Adams
Your TV GPS, a look at the week ahead in television, appears every Monday morning on BostonGlobe.com. Today’s column covers Jan. 13-Jan. 19. We know you’ve been waiting for your “Severance” check, and after a three-year hiatus, season 2 of the highly anticipated Apple TV+ series arrives Friday, as the streamer continues to prove itself among the top purveyors of original storytelling.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Thelma Adams
“On Call” is a decent small-scale police procedural. But is it decent enough when it comes from the house of Dick Wolf? The pedigreed eight-part show traded broadcast networks for Prime Video, where it will premiere Thursday. The novelty is that each episode is a bite-sized 30 minutes, with modest character arcs that extend over multiple episodes, and multiple seemingly random crime sequences that propel individual installments. The result feels like “Cops” with a script.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
thewrap.com | Thelma Adams |Jose Alejandro Bastidas
“On Call” is a decent small-scale police procedural. But is it decent enough when it comes from the house of Dick Wolf? The pedigreed eight-part show traded broadcast networks for Prime Video, where it will premiere Thursday. The novelty is that each episode is a bite-sized 30 minutes, with modest character arcs that extend over multiple episodes, and multiple seemingly random crime sequences that propel individual installments. The result feels like “Cops” with a script.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Thelma Adams
Your TV GPS, a look at the week ahead in television, appears every Monday morning on BostonGlobe.com. Today’s column covers Jan. 6-Jan. 12. Tomorrow, limited series “Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action” throws down on Netflix. Make way for another docuseries tossed like spaghetti against the wall to see if it sticks: Can the late creator of the notorious “Jerry Springer” show still attract viewers/voyeurs?
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Thelma Adams
Your TV GPS, a look at the week ahead in television, appears every Monday morning on BostonGlobe.com. Today’s column covers Dec 9 – Dec 15. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s sprawling novel, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” necessitates the freedom to explore and expand encouraged by the rise of the limited series format. Dropping in its entirety Wednesday on Netflix, the 1967 Colombian magic realism masterpiece streams in eight episodes of love, war, and mysticism.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Thelma Adams
Your TV GPS, a look at the week ahead in television, appears every Monday morning on BostonGlobe.com. Today’s column covers Dec. 2-Dec. 8. Now is the time to remember the British warrior-poet politician Sir Winston Churchill, who famously intoned, “[N]ever give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.” The four-part docuseries “Churchill at War,” executive produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, unfurls Wednesday on Netflix.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Thelma Adams
“My chosen career is a psychological tightrope walk over a pit of fire,” says CIA agent Martian (Michael Fassbender), as if he were the Johnny Cash of spooks. It’s not quite a LinkedIn profile, but he’s resisting and evading the efforts of a government therapist to crack into his head. The agent’s aware that the line between therapy and interrogation is thin when you’re in a room with the Company’s shrink.
