“Step outside your yard you never know what you’ll find.”  – Strange Angel Much like the development of content for CBS All Access, the streaming network’s Strange Angel is a slow burn. With its fascinating subject, tightly designed visuals, and an eerie cinematic quality, however, the series keeps viewers intrigued as it delves into a […]

Master of espionage John le Carré’s captivating storytelling has seen many adaptations in the writer’s long career, from The Constant Gardner and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The most recent televised adaptation was 2016’s The Night Manager, a smash-hit miniseries starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, airing […]

There are TV shows based on books. And TV shows based on movies. There are movies based on TV shows, movies based on musicals, and musicals based on movies (and movies then redone based on those musicals). Heck, there are operas based on movies now and musicals based on cartoons. So to say source material […]

TVLand’s Younger is addictive. That really is the best word for it. And after five seasons the stylish comedy is growing steadily in viewers, and still carrying a stellar 99% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Starring Broadway icon Sutton Foster (Bunheads), the show takes its core energy from a similar focus on female relationships as fueled […]

In 1963, Philip K. Dick published his novel, The Man in the High Castle, an alternate history set 15 years after a World War II in which the Axis powers won the war and Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany rule over the former United States. The book, which received the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel, also […]