“There is only brutality here.” This is a line from a letter that a U.S. Army captain, played by Lucas Neff, writes to his loved ones back home, midway through the new Netflix miniseries American Primeval. It’s an unfortunately apt statement, albeit not a surprising one if you know that …
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In adapting her nonfiction bestseller Three Women for television, author Lisa Taddeo has made the title something of a misnomer. To the trio she profiled in the book — housewife Lina (Betty Gilpin), withering under her husband’s sexual neglect; wealthy Sloane (DeWanda Wise), struggling with the boundaries of a polyamorous …
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