The Atlantic
How I Fell for Formula 1
Netflix got Americans like me to finally care about auto racing. The NFL might want to take notes.
10+ min |
October 2021
New York magazine
Jessica Chastain and Liv Ullmann – Same Role, 48 Years Apart
Jessica Chastain reprises Liv Ullmann’s part in the Ingmar Bergman classic Scenes From a Marriage. Their approaches couldn’t be more different.
10+ min |
September 13 - 26, 2021
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ANN CLEEVES
British author Ann Cleeves has an affinity for remote areas and how these isolated regions affect her characters.
10+ min |
Fall #169, 2021
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CARLENE O'CONNOR
“Anyone can play Snow White. It takes real talent to play the Wicked Witch.”
8 min |
Fall #169, 2021
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Mystery Scene MISCELLANY
FIRST USE OF FINGERPRINTS
3 min |
Fall #169, 2021
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PANIC ATTACK
The newest entry in my Pittsburgh set series of thrillers is called Panic Attack. It’s the sixth book featuring Daniel Rinaldi, a psychologist and trauma expert who consults with the Pittsburgh Police.
2 min |
Fall #169, 2021
Mystery Scene
LAIDLAW'S LEGACY
During the pandemic, Ian Rankin stepped away from Rebus and into the shoes of friend and literary hero, the “Godfather of Tartan Noir” William McIlvanney.
10+ min |
Fall #169, 2021
New York magazine
Adrienne Warren Stands Up
She opened in Tina so badly hurt she could barely walk. Then came another mountain to climb.
7 min |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
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HILARY DAVIDSON
Call it The Case of Life Imitating Art.
7 min |
Fall #169, 2021
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Thomas Walsh - The Unusual Suspect
Any paternity test on the sub-genre of police procedural will identify the DNA of Ed McBain and Lawrence Treat, as well as the 1948 movie The Naked City and the radio and TV series Dragnet…and of course Thomas Walsh.
6 min |
Fall #169, 2021
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S.A. COSBY
In Razorblade Tears, two aging men—one Black, one white, both with criminal pasts—join forces to seek revenge for the murders of their gay sons. The themes of fathers and sons and toxic masculinity will be familar to fans of Cosby’s 2020 breakout Blacktop Wasteland.
10 min |
Fall #169, 2021
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VIPER'S NEST OF LIES
A slip of the tongue is a dangerous thing. Not only does it expose indiscretions, it also can lead to murder. The latter especially applies to me.
2 min |
Fall #169, 2021
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6 New Writers to Watch
Wiley Cash’s debut, A Land More Kind Than Home, about the bond between two brothers landed on the New York Times Best Sellers List and received the Crime Writers’ Association Debut of the Year.
10 min |
Fall #169, 2021
TV Guide Magazine
The Big Leap
FIFTEEN MINUTES IN, this lively, endearing but unsentimental drama about the goings-on at a reality TV show called The Big Leap will have you jumping for joy. Here’s the pitch: Amateur dancers are selected by audition, then rehearse to perform a modernized Swan Lake while also letting cameras film them offstage and at home in Detroit. (The series, shot in Chicago, is inspired by an actual 2014 U.K. reality show, Big Ballet.) The underdogs who make the cut all hunger for some kind of second chance, while savvy executive producer Nick Blackburn (Scott Foley) just wants rating gold.
2 min |
August 30 - September 12, 2021 - Double Issue
TV Guide Magazine
ORDINARY JOE
IN EVERY EPISODE of this ultimate “what if?” series, we’ll watch earnest Joe Kimbreau (Watchmen’s James Wolk) live out the three paths he could’ve chosen when he graduated college: What would’ve happened if he’d become a nurse, a cop or a rock star? Ten years later, “The guy who’s Bono-famous and has a charcuterie platter waiting for him is going to be different from the guy who’s working a 10-hour shift and then gets a beer at the corner bar,” says Wolk.
1 min |
August 30 - September 12, 2021 - Double Issue
TV Guide Magazine
FALL PREVIEW CSI: VEGAS Grissom and sara are the season's winning pair
Power up your remote! The new TV season shines bright with electric performances (Jeff Daniels! Jessica Chastain! Michael Keaton!) and memorable returns, starting with our favorite Sin City couple…
3 min |
August 30 - September 12, 2021 - Double Issue
TV Guide Magazine
OUR KIND OF PEOPLE
POWER, PRIVILEGE, AND secrets from the past heat up this titillating family drama set in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, the real-life playground of the Black elite. Based on Lawrence Otis Graham’s bestseller Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, the show stars Chicago Med’s Yaya DaCosta as Angela Vaughn, a new arrival to Martha’s Vineyard enclave— whose mother was once a maid on the island.
1 min |
August 30 - September 12, 2021 - Double Issue
TV Guide Magazine
American Rust
MURDERS AND SMALL towns make for riveting television (see: Mare of Easttown, Broadchurch), and American Rust, based on the Philipp Meyer novel, is a worthy addition to this very specific genre. Set in fictional Buell, Pennsylvania, the nine-episode drama centers on a conflicted chief of police Del Harris (Jeff Daniels), who considers crossing morality lines after the son of the woman he loves, Grace Poe (Maura Tierney, The Affair), is linked to a homicide.
1 min |
August 30 - September 12, 2021 - Double Issue
TV Guide Magazine
“JUST LIVE”
What’s next for Morgan? On set exploring the fate of our favorite Fear characters as we head into Season 6
3 min |
The Walking Dead: The Ultimate Survivor’s Guide
TV Guide Magazine
WORLD BEYOND
Which of the Endlings will survive the series’ final installment?
2 min |
The Walking Dead: The Ultimate Survivor’s Guide
TV Guide Magazine
THE NEXT GENERATION
The new Walking Dead: World Beyond spinoff introduces four sheltered Nebraska teens and the high-tech, highly suspect Civic Republic Military
2 min |
The Walking Dead: The Ultimate Survivor’s Guide
TV Guide Magazine
THE DEAD PHENOMENON
The zombie apocalypse might have ended civilization on The Walking Dead, but it also inspired a fresh new world of undead entertainment
3 min |
The Walking Dead: The Ultimate Survivor’s Guide
TV Guide Magazine
RICK TURNS IN HIS BADGE
Andrew Lincoln ends a nine-season run as The Walking Dead’s hardened but heroic leader. Will we survive?
5 min |
The Walking Dead: The Ultimate Survivor’s Guide
TV Guide Magazine
DEAD RECKONING
A mysterious swordswoman! A terrifying Governor! And: Even. More. Zombies! Rick and Co. return for a killer new season
3 min |
The Walking Dead: The Ultimate Survivor’s Guide
TV Guide Magazine
KILLER INSTINCT
As The Walking Dead returns for a fifth season, stars Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus talk about teaming up to lead in a world gone mad
9 min |
The Walking Dead: The Ultimate Survivor’s Guide
TV Guide Magazine
DEAD HEAD
The Walking Dead franchise’s big boss, Scott M. Gimple, on everything from the upcoming Rick Grimes films to the episode he keeps rewatching
4 min |
The Walking Dead: The Ultimate Survivor’s Guide
TV Guide Magazine
DAWN OF THE DEAD
Fear the Walking Dead rises in a sunny new setting at the start of our favorite zombie apocalypse
7 min |
The Walking Dead: The Ultimate Survivor’s Guide
TV Guide Magazine
''We All Have Secrets''
On Hulu’s eerie Nine Perfect Strangers, the clients at an exclusive wellness spa have as much to hide as the mysterious owner
3 min |
August 16-29, 2021 - Double Issue
TV Guide Magazine
NCIS IN Paradise
Aloha from the NCIS: Hawai'i field office in Pearl Harbor—and meet the magnetic special agent in charge BY JIM HALTERMAN
3 min |
August 16-29, 2021 - Double Issue
TV Guide Magazine
Chapelwaite
SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, Aug. 22, 10/9c, Epix
2 min |