• May 19, 2022
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

At the start of Downton Abbey: A New Era we are given a quick recap of what’s what and who’s who by actor Kevin Doyle (who plays the bumbling...

• October 25, 2017
• At Home, Drama

Making art about art, and making it entertaining, is always a struggle. Whether it is a movie about a writer (watch him THINK) or a chef (see the food...

• June 4, 2017
• At Home, Crime, Drama

I know several people that washed their hands clean of Downton Abbey when the show dared bring horrible suffering on Joanne Froggatt’s sweet and saintly housemaid Anna Bates. How...

• November 12, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Television

Rather than picking up right where Season One left off, Season Two of Indian Summers jumps ahead a few years to 1935. This allows for some shakes ups to...

• May 25, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Television

Despite having an interesting premise (the birth of modern retail in the UK by a savvy American entrepreneur) and soapy plots involving characters from the company boardroom to the...

• March 7, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Television

It is now 1925, and things continue to change at Downton Abbey. Manors and estates down the road are shuttering their windows and auctioning the family heirlooms, lords and...

• October 31, 2015
• At Home, Drama, Television

Who doesn’t like to see an occupying empire crumble? I’m not sure why the era of the British occupation of India is so specifically fascinating, but it has all...

• February 2, 2015
• At Home, Drama, Television

I know I wasn’t the only one that just about threw in the towel on Season Four of Downton Abbey. As if the carnage of losing two popular characters...

• January 26, 2015
• At Home, Documentary

This hour-long Masterpiece special is obviously just a space-filler to quench the thirst of viewers who are salivating over all-things Downton Abbey. It has the depth and feel of...

• September 13, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Television

Set in 1961 London, the series Breathless opens intriguingly, as a handful of doctors and nurses discreetly visit a woman in her own residence to perform an illegal abortion....

• April 29, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Television

Apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought that Jeremy Piven, starring as the titular character in the Masterpiece series Mr. Selfridge, was simply too much. It wasn’t just his jarring...

• April 28, 2014
• At Home, Drama, War

Young Harry Potter gets to stretch his legs in this made-for-TV historical drama, and redeems himself quite nicely, I must say. In fact, except for the initial jolt of...