Television
Each week Times TV Critic Mary McNamara offers her viewing picks for the coming week: “Bletchley Circle”: Socially provocative and gorgeously acted, this three-part British miniseries, which ends this week, rather astonishingly manages to leverage the current enthrallment with period dramas (it’s set in 1952), the eternal fascination with suspense procedurals involving serial killers and the roots of modern feminism.
May 2, 2013
World & Nation
No one can understand the singular suffering of the wounded like their injured comrades. So one is leading the way in ministering to them.
July 31, 2005
“Olive Kitteridge” Starring Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins, HBO’s two-part, four-hour adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book is the best thing on television this year, last year, probably next year, possible ever.
Oct. 31, 2014
That Jane Austen failed to write a murder-mystery sequel to “Pride and Prejudice” was an oversight remedied in 2011 by P.D.
Oct. 24, 2014
“Grimm.”
Oct. 23, 2014
Television review: ‘Masterpiece Classic: South Riding’
April 30, 2011
Hell quite literally arrives in a handbasket in Amazon Prime’s doomsday comedy, “Good Omens,” where the infant antichrist is delivered by a long-haired demon who looks more like a member of REO Speedwagon than a harbinger of End Times.
May 30, 2019
The biggest stars of PBS’ new fall lineup are named Franklin, Eleanor and Teddy .
May 9, 2014
Critic’s Picks: ‘Bletchley Circle,’ ‘Revolution,’ ‘New Girl’/’Mindy Project’
Olympics
In the women’s pairs without coxswain, Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson and Anna Seaton, who finished sixth in the 1988 Olympics, won by seven seconds in 7:24.43.
June 8, 1992