MRS. WILSON, BBC 2018 - A three part mini-series - It’s the beginning of WWII in London. Alison Wilson (played by Ruth Wilson) meets her husband Alexander (played by Iain Glen) working in an intelligence operation in London during the early part of the war. They are attracted to each other but he’s married. WHEN …
Month: May 2023
US – A BBC MINISERIES
US - 2020 BBC miniseries in four parts - After twenty-four years of marriage, Douglas and Connie Petersen (played by Tom Hollander and Saskia Reeves) find themselves at a stage in life where they seem reasonably comfortable and settled. Tom, a rather pedantic biologist, that stuck in a middle management in a job he really …
FROM SCRATCH the MINISERIES
From Scratch - an eight part mini-series on Netflix from 2022 All right, let’s start with a spoiler alert - this eight part series turns out to be a ‘disease of the week’ story - a rare cancer in this case. Enter only if you enjoy the throbbing and sobbing that comes with lovers separated …
MISHA AND THE WOLVES
Misha and the Wolves is a remarkable 2021 documentary (now on Netflix) directed by Sam Hobkinson. It’s about Misha Defonseca, the author of Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years (1997), a book that made Defonseca a bestselling author and was the basis for a major French movie. Defonseca grew up in Brussels during the …
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