Overwriting has a place and a purpose, according to this showrunner. Apple TV’s Pachinko , a drama series based on the 2017 novel by Min Jin Lee, has garnered accolades galore since its premiere in 2022, including a Peabody Award and a Critics’ Choice Award. The story begins in 1915 in occupied Korea but reaches […]
Screenshot from An American Werewolf in London Growing up as a monster kid, Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolf Man were basically the big three, the unholy trinity of spookiness. I tore through Stoker and Shelley, but wondered why there wasn’t an equally-iconic fictional take on the werewolf. Sure, there were the great Universal films— Frankenstein […]
The setting for “The Hills of California,” Jez Butterworth’s often comic, secretly heartsick drama, now at the Broadhurst, is an unfashionable guesthouse in the seaside resort town of Blackpool, in the North of England. Do not go in expecting a hill, or the sunny American West: the title comes from a Johnny Mercer song, which […]
Break out the heart eyes and rugby kits: The much-anticipated third season of the gushingly earnest teen romantic dramedy “Heartstopper” arrives on Netflix on Oct. 3. The show, based on the best-selling graphic novel series by Alice Oseman, follows Nick Nelson, a golden retriever of a rugby player, and Charlie Spring, a sensitive drummer, who […]
