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‘Victoria’: PBS Crosses ‘Downton Abbey’ with ‘Gossip Girl’
Victoria came to the throne at the age of 18 and apparently nursed a crush on her adviser, Lord Melbourne, as who would not, since he’s played here by Rufus Sewell at his most hunky-polite. Based on the historical novel by Daisy Goodwin, this production seems to strive for a cross between Gossip Girl and Downton Abbey, and is thus an amusing trifle. Wearing a crown that looks like a gigantic, bejeweled wedding cake, Coleman’s Victoria is alternately shrewdly clever and melodramatically emotion
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‘The Man in the High Castle’ as a Metaphor for Trump? Alas, It’s Not That Interesting.
The reviews for the new second season of The Man in the High Castle, now streaming on Amazon Prime, have taken a noticeably bleak turn. No, I’m talking about how, since the first season concluded, the presidential win of Donald Trump has suddenly put reviewers in a bit of a tizzy. The series posits that Germany and Japan won World War II, and the victors divided the conquered America between them.
