Washington Black

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ImlSbn43MU An enterprising boy escapes slavery to experience an adventure-filled life in Washington Black Esi Edugyan’s work resonates. By envisioning a 1960s-era Ghanaian civil servant who birthed an African-American settlement in Alberta’s Amber Valley after he inherited land in her debut novel The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Edugyan paved the way for the breadth…

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The Wild Ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18J8R1BzYEE Former commando Aldo Kane, camera trap expert Declan Burley and wildlife cinematographer Vianet Djenguet pull back the curtain on their extraordinary wildlife docuseries The Wild Ones A blue-chip documentary from the likes of David Attenborough can take up to four years to produce, which means that by the time an animal makes it to…

Outrageous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOPQxKaniFM&t=10s The outlandish antics of the socialite Mitford sisters roiled British high society in the 1930s, and their story comes to the screen in new miniseries Outrageous In real life, the Mitford sisters were something of a marvel. The six daughters of English aristocrat David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (James Purefoy), hailed from the same…

Untamed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzrAMo7UEls Untamed follows a special agent investigating a murder mystery in Yosemite National Park National parks are a hot topic right now in the United States. With the news that more than 1,000 National Parks Service (NPS) employees were laid off in early 2025 during federal government cutbacks, discussions circling public safety, maintenance and park…

The Gilded Age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehEFfX6P-PE Change is in the air throughout the third season of lavish period drama The Gilded Age When we last left The Gilded Age, we were in the throes of the Opera War, which ended without bloodshed and with the Russell family at the height of New York society. Now, Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) has…

Dexter: Resurrection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84o1Q6fB20k Michael C. Hall revives the killer of serial killers in Dexter: Resurrection The saga of forensic analyst/killer of killers Dexter Morgan came to a fatal conclusion in the 2021 revival Dexter: New Blood, closing the book on the acclaimed series that originally ran from 2006 until 2013. Or so we thought. Having faked his…

Grantchester on Masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7JDZmFNONg Grantchester star Rishi Nair tells TV Week what’s in store for crime-solving vicar Alphy Kottaram in the 10th season of Grantchester As the most recent actor to don the liturgical garments in the small English town of Grantchester, actor Rishi Nair recognizes that a murder a week feels like a high concentration of death…

The Madame Blanc Mysteries

The crime-solving adventures of antiques expert Jean White continue in a new season of The Madame Blanc Mysteries The south of France conjures images of sunny Mediterranean beaches, the taste of fine wine and olive oil, the feeling of romance . . . and the mystery of suspicious deaths? That’s always the case in British…

We Were Liars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoMLuX42pCk The bestselling mystery novels come to life in twist-filled drama We Were Liars Cadence Sinclair Eastman has been coming to her family’s private island off the coast of Massachusetts since the summer she was born. Every year, she reunites with her cousins Johnny and Mirren, and their childhood friend Gat, and the tightknit group…

The Buccaneers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p6ZMqvw3XY A group of brash American socialites continue to shake up the stodgy British aristocracy in the second season of The Buccaneers The first season of The Buccaneers — based on Edith Wharton’s tome about five young American women shaking up English high society — ended in hopeful chaos. Annabelle “Nan” St. George (Kristine Frøseth) went through…

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