Tales Continued

Twenty-five years after the premiere of their groundbreaking miniseries, Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis reprise their roles for Netflix in a new chapter of Armistead Mau pin’s Tales of the City.

- Bill Keith

28 Barbary Lane still stands— with more than a few familiar tenants still in residence—but fresh faces on screen and diverse voices in the writers’ room are making the latest incarnation of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City a worthwhile expansion of the author’s universe. Created by Maupin in the 1970s, Tales gained popularity as serialized stories in the San Francisco Chronicle before they were turned into nine novels and eventually several miniseries (for PBS in 1994, and then for Showtime in 1998 and 2001).