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Netflix’s My Brilliant Career brings Miles Franklin’s landmark 1901 novel back to the screen through Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong young woman growing up in rural Australia who wants something very different from the future planned for her. While her family sees marriage as the safest path forward, Sybylla is determined to become a writer and…
Netflix’s My Brilliant Career spends most of its romantic energy on Sybylla, Harry and Frank, but one of the adaptation’s biggest departures from Miles Franklin’s novel is happening more quietly inside the Bossier family. Julius Bossier, played by Alexander England, is hiding a relationship with Everard Grey, played by Alex Fitzalan. Yes, Julius is gay…
For all the flirting, jealousy and romantic tension packed into Netflix’s My Brilliant Career, the final decision was never really about whether Harry Beecham could persuade Sybylla Melvyn to love him. She already does. The harder question is whether loving Harry is enough to make her surrender the future she has spent the entire series…
Netflix’s My Brilliant Career returns to Miles Franklin’s celebrated story without trying to recreate Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 film shot for shot. Developed and written by Liz Doran, the six-part series follows Sybylla Melvyn, a fiercely independent young woman living in Australia around the turn of the 20th century. Sybylla wants to become a writer, even…
Anna Merrick is dead before Reacher Season 4 has really begun, yet three episodes later almost every major character is still chasing the secret she took with her onto that Philadelphia subway. Jack Reacher initially knows her only as a frightened federal employee who refuses his help and shoots herself moments later. What he discovers…
Jack Reacher is usually very good at deciding whether someone is lying to him. Lila Hoth makes that talent considerably less useful. The mysterious Indonesian woman enters Season 4 with a sympathetic story about leukemia, a missing biological father and Pentagon employee Anna Merrick, only for Reacher to discover that almost every personal detail she…
Ben Merrick barely appears in the opening mystery of Reacher Season 4, yet by the time Episode 3 ends, his absence may be one of its most alarming loose ends. Anna Merrick’s brother Jacob initially treats Ben’s silence as unusual but not necessarily catastrophic. College students miss calls, football players disappear into their own lives,…
Lila Hoth enters Reacher Season 4 with the kind of story Jack Reacher has difficulty ignoring. She says she has leukemia, needs to locate her biological father for a bone marrow match, and believes Congressman John Sampson is that man. Anna Merrick was supposedly helping her prove it before dying on the Philadelphia subway. By…
The war for the Iron Throne is no longer building toward disaster after House of the Dragon Season 3. Disaster has arrived. Tumbleton is burning, Rhaenyra has become increasingly ruthless in King’s Landing, Ulf has abandoned any meaningful allegiance, and Aegon II has unexpectedly reunited with Aemond. HBO has already confirmed that Season 4 will…
Ted Lasso spent the Season 4 premiere deciding whether Richmond could still be home. “Curiouser and Curiouser!” wastes little time answering the practical side of that question. Ted is back at AFC Richmond, but the club he remembers has moved on, the women’s team has been surviving on scraps, and assistant coach Alice Chilton is…
Alys Rivers has always seemed slightly out of place in House of the Dragon. Daemon hears and sees things around her that nobody else seems able to explain, Aemond finds her almost impossible to intimidate, and Harrenhal itself behaves less like a castle than something with a memory. Season 3 finally gives those oddities a…
Helaena’s finished embroidery in the House of the Dragon Season 3 finale is not simply a record of the war. Its final images reveal that Helaena has been sewing her dragon dreams into cloth, including her own death and a disturbing vision of Rhaenyra on the Iron Throne surrounded by fire, dragons and suffering. The…
