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Julian Fellowes, of Downton Abbey Fame, Has a Few Issues With Peter Morgan, of The Crown Fame

Why can’t all upper-crust British period dramas live together in perfect, escapist harmony? Because frankly, life is less like a Lady Edith and more like a Duke of Windsor. Julian Fellowes, who was Downton Abbey’s creator and showrunner until the show curtsied away in 2016, is personifying those values quite … More » Source: Ent […]

GLOW Recap: Channel Flipping

Last year’s Netflix documentary Long Shot revisited how an accused murderer was exonerated thanks to evidentiary footage of him at a Dodgers game while Curb Your Enthusiasm was filming. It was a kind of triumphal inversion of Ferris Bueller’s near-brush with being busted on camera at Wrigley Field during his … More » Source: Ent […]

GLOW Recap: Cast Irony

Sometimes you have to break a foot to fix a friendship. Or move a story forward. Or in this case, both. Not since the Korean Armistice Agreement has there been such an anticipated standing down as we witnessed between Debbie and Ruth in this season-best seventh episode. Things wisely picked … More » Source: Ent […]

The Many Legacies of Harlan Ellison

In 1987, the Nemo Press released The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective, a collection of writings spanning the long career of Harlan Ellison. It speaks volumes about Ellison’s work that this attempt to distill his bibliography down to something that could be called “essential” still resulted in a book well … More » Source: Ent […]