![]() Starring Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle as 13-year-old BFFs in 2000, the show brilliantly captures the angst, humiliation and naïveté of middle-schoolers who don’t quite fit in, often in ways that will transport you back to the halls of your own seventh grade. Then, just as the second half of its sophomore season arrived, Hulu announced that this batch of episodes would be the last of the series. Two decades and some change later (oh, my God, writing that hurt my soul), shooting delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forced the second season of “PEN15” - which reminds me of those preteen days in excruciating but splendid ways - to be split into two halves. Not since the closing moments of the Season 1 finale of “Dawson’s Creek” - you know, when Dawson and Joey finally kissed - have I felt the truly unbearable preteen anguish of having to wait an eternity for new episodes of my favorite show. ![]() Pat Show” go is everyone’s wry determination to make the best out of a situation by learning when “It is what it is” is code for “Good enough.” - Dawn M. You’ll get that good laugh you’ve needed during this disconcerting year, but what really makes “The Ms. Bernard Calloway is a dad who’s not so clueless and the children (Brittany Inge, Vince Swann, Theodore Barnes and Briyana Guadalupe) know to be heard only when they have to be. Pat is the star of the show - and, soon, a Netflix comedy special - and opens each episode with a microphone in hand, there’s enough shine to go around: Tami Roman (“The Real World”) is the blunt live-in sister who always has a trick to treat the audience J. She’s a mother trying to adjust to suburban ways and a comedian trying to get her shine on far from the lights of the big city (fodder for an episode starring a “Family Matters” alum). Williams plays a version of herself as Pat, a felon who has moved with her family from Atlanta to the less racially diverse Plainfield, Ind., to press restart. Pat, your head will snap the moment she releases the first f-bomb in “ The Ms. If you’re not familiar with comic Patricia Williams, a.k.a. Huzzah! - Meredith Blake The Mighty Underdogs (Discovery+) Season 1 ended with Catherine staging a coup against Peter that - spoiler alert - will not end too well for him, but I’m curious to see how the series will handle this historical inevitability. The series is clearly not interested in sticking to the facts, but it captures something often overlooked when it comes the history of European royals: Those people were nuts. I gobbled up Season 1 during Pandemic 1.0 and fell in love with the whole thing, particularly the performances by Elle Fanning, who believably transforms from a wide-eyed princess into a cunning empress, and Nicholas Hoult as her cretinous yet strangely likable husband, Peter III. That’s why I plan to catch up on “The Great,” Hulu’s aggressively anachronistic series about the young Catherine the Great. Better yet if it’s also irreverent and wickedly funny. Over the holidays, there’s nothing I enjoy more than hunkering down and watching a show with vast historical sweep, elaborate costumes, lots of sumptuous scenery and a wintry landscape. The series offers a new twist on “Oliver Twist”. ![]() Venus’ taxidermy shop, the Three Cripples (Bill Sikes’ favorite pub) and Honoria Barbary’s parlor. Scrooge meets Inspector Bucket (Stephen Rea) meets Fagin meets Miss Havisham in this murder mystery, where their lives intersect in Mr. The late Christopher Plummer portrays a perfectly sour and snarky Scrooge, while Jonathan Pryce is Dickens’ charming yet irresponsible father.Īnd in the dark, mysterious and thoroughly entertaining BBC series “Dickensian,” characters from multiple stories by the celebrated author converge for the first time in the same neighborhood of Victorian London. His creations (Fezziwig, Jacob Marley) then end up haunting him until he completes the book. In this witty tale of how “A Christmas Carol” came to be, the writer finds inspiration in the real-life folks of 1843 London, borrowing from their names and personality tics to conjure his fictional cast of characters. The 2017 Irish Canadian comedy film “The Man Who Invented Christmas” follows the thirtysomething Dickens (Dan Stevens) as he strives to overcome writer’s block and deliver another novella to his impatient publisher. Both my picks are alternate takes on the man of the season, Charles Dickens. ![]()
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