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Taylor Hanson has spent most of his life performing on stages, but dancing has never been a major part of that career. Ahead of “Dancing with the Stars” Season 35, the Hanson singer said he has “virtually no dance experience” and described joining the competition as a significant step outside his comfort zone. His decades…
Jackson Olson will not be learning how to perform in front of a crowd for the first time on “Dancing with the Stars.” The Savannah Bananas second baseman has spent years dancing, spinning, celebrating and taking part in choreographed routines during baseball games. That has already led some DWTS fans to question whether he enters…
“High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam” arrives with the familiar shape of a political thriller, but much of its tension comes from events that were already extraordinary before television writers began adapting them. The series follows CIA analyst John Nixon during the search for Saddam Hussein and the interrogations that followed the former Iraqi…
TNT’s “High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam” revisits the months after the 2003 invasion of Iraq from an unusually intimate angle. Joel Kinnaman plays CIA analyst John Nixon, while Waleed Zuaiter portrays Saddam Hussein, with much of the drama moving between the search for the deposed Iraqi leader and Nixon’s later interrogations of him.…
Maura Higgins may not be entering “Dancing with the Stars” Season 35 with a completely blank performance resume, but calling her an experienced dancer would be misleading. The “Love Island” and “The Traitors” star has said that she did “a bit of Irish dancing” when she was younger, though she has repeatedly described herself as…
Charles Darnay enters A Tale of Two Cities as a French emigre whose past is difficult to pin down. He is idealistic enough to fight alongside the Americans at Yorktown, willing to risk returning to France with Lucie Manette, and seemingly determined to build a different life in England. Yet Episode 2 makes it increasingly…
A Tale of Two Cities Episode 2, titled “Malunion,” finally gives Lucie Manette the reunion she has spent most of her life believing was impossible. Her father Alexandre is alive, but nearly two decades inside the Bastille have left him so psychologically damaged that bringing him home proves considerably more difficult than simply finding him.…
Teddy Ward has only a small role in the Vigil Season 3 finale, but his appearance is important because it confirms that the American operation surrounding Shen Jia does not end with Garcia’s arrest. Garcia may be the CIA operative exposed on Svalbard, but Teddy is the character who shows that Washington’s interest in Jia…
Amy Silva spends most of Vigil Season 3 investigating what happened to Professor Vincent Mair and trying to understand why so many governments are interested in Shen Jia. By the finale, however, the case becomes personal and professional in a way Amy cannot avoid. Protecting Jia means directly defying orders from senior officials, and although…
Vigil Season 3 leaves Svalbard behind for its finale, but the conspiracy becomes even more dangerous once Amy Silva and Shen Jia reach Scotland. Episode 6 reveals that the fight over Jia’s biofuel was never simply Britain against China or the West against Russia. British intelligence and the United States have both been working to…
Vigil Season 3 Episode 5 finally reveals what Shen Jia discovered beneath the Arctic ice, but the scientific breakthrough is only half the story. Amy Silva and Kirsten Longacre also discover that the investigation into Daniel Hodge’s murder has been pointing in the wrong direction. Henrik Becken has plenty to answer for, but he is…
Joe McNamara’s kidnapping in Lioness Season 3 initially seems to have a straightforward explanation. Babat and the men holding her have clear connections to Iran, while the brutality of the operation suggests that Joe is being punished for enemies she made during previous CIA missions. Episode 7, Kiss the Girls, complicates that explanation considerably. Once…
