American Horror Story has always enjoyed introducing new characters beside familiar faces, and Season 13 is taking that idea considerably further. The new installment brings back characters from Murder House, Coven, Hotel, Cult and other chapters while building its central story around newcomer Ben DeSoto. Standing close to Ben at the beginning of that story…
American Horror Story has always enjoyed introducing new characters beside familiar faces, and Season 13 is taking that idea considerably further. The new installment brings back characters from Murder House, Coven, Hotel, Cult and other chapters while building its central story around newcomer Ben DeSoto. Standing close to Ben at the beginning of that story…
Unabomber moves between two versions of Ted Kaczynski’s life that look as though they belong to different films. One follows the gifted teenager arriving at Harvard in 1958, where he comes into contact with psychologist Henry Murray and participates in a controversial research program. The other jumps forward to the 1990s, when federal investigators are…
Netflix’s “A Different World” brings viewers back to Hillman College with a new generation, but the sequel does not spend its first season simply revisiting familiar ground. Deborah Wayne, the daughter of Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert, arrives at Hillman carrying the weight of her parents’ history while trying to build a college life that…
A Different World returns to Hillman College with the difficult task of introducing a new class without making the sequel feel like an extended reunion special. Netflix’s continuation solves that problem by putting Deborah Wayne, the youngest daughter of Whitley Gilbert and Dwayne Wayne, at the center of campus life while surrounding her with students…
A Different World returns to Hillman College with a new generation, but Netflix’s sequel does something the original sitcom could only occasionally attempt. Instead of keeping most of student life inside studio-built classrooms and dorm rooms, the new series takes Hillman outdoors and allows viewers to move through real quads, walkways and college buildings. Maleah…
“Avengers: Endgame” originally ended with Steve Rogers finally getting the life he had missed. After returning the Infinity Stones, Steve remained in the past with Peggy Carter, and the movie closed on the two of them dancing together. There was no major villain waiting after the credits and no obvious setup for another Avengers adventure.…
When “Avengers: Endgame” arrived in 2019, it did something the Marvel Cinematic Universe had spent more than a decade building toward. Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Thor, Bruce Banner and Clint Barton were brought together for what felt like the closing chapter of the original Avengers era. Seven years later, Marvel Studios is taking…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds closes its fourth season by putting Nyota Uhura at the center of one of the show’s most ambitious temporal mysteries. Episode 10, “Tomorrow’s Enterprise,” begins with a scientific mission involving a white hole, but what looks like another unusual Enterprise assignment gradually becomes a deeply personal story about Uhura, Scotty,…
Unabomber moves between two versions of Ted Kaczynski’s life that look as though they belong to different films. One follows the gifted teenager arriving at Harvard in 1958, where he comes into contact with psychologist Henry Murray and participates in a controversial research program. The other jumps forward to the 1990s, when federal investigators are…
A Different World returns to Hillman College with a new generation, but Netflix’s sequel does something the original sitcom could only occasionally attempt. Instead of keeping most of student life inside studio-built classrooms and dorm rooms, the new series takes Hillman outdoors and allows viewers to move through real quads, walkways and college buildings. Maleah…
Netflix’s Wonka’s The Golden Ticket does not treat Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory like an ordinary game-show set. The nine-episode competition sends 12 Golden Ticket winners and their chosen partners through rooms filled with elaborate games, temptations, Oompa-Loompas and a new version of Wonkavision, all while drawing heavily on the visual personality of Willy Wonka &…
Netflix’s Habeas Corpus rarely treats São Paulo as anonymous background. The Brazilian legal drama follows Inez Franco, played by Marjorie Estiano, a respected law professor and former criminal defense attorney who forms a group of students to revisit a disputed conviction. Any Gabrielly co-stars as Marina, a student whose interest in Inez and the case…
