Nixon, Cynthia
‘The Gilded Age’ Review: Dime-Store ‘Downton’
Julian Fellowes chased his new series, “The Gilded Age,” for a decade. Call it his white whale. Beginning Monday on HBO, you can watch it drag him and a large, talented cast beneath the waves. What would become “The Gilded Age” began in 2012 as Fellowes’s idea for a prequel to his “Downton Abbey,” the […]
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‘The Gilded Age’ Finally Arrives on HBO
(Baranski said of her character, “She’s a marvelous snob, but who wouldn’t want to play a snob written by Julian Fellowes?”) Sets were built on soundstages on Long Island, including for the myriad rooms of the Russell mansion, decorated with period-appropriate fabrics and patterns made by some of the same European companies that fabricated the […]
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How Samantha Jones Was Written Out of ‘And Just Like That’
‘“And Just Like That” (give or take a few decades), “Sex And The City” is back’ (AV Club) Gwen Ihnat doesn’t find much to praise in the pilot episode of the series. But as the rare woman in her 50s to review the show, she argues for why it’s necessary. “It’s also an interesting, underlooked […]
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Review: ‘And Just Like That,’ It All Went Wrong
But if you were expecting a frothy cocktail to take your mind off the world’s troubles, the premiere throws that drink in your face. Here is your last warning if you care about spoilers: Big dies of a heart attack after a workout, in Peloton’s most unfortunate product placement. And just like that, “And Just […]
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