“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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This post contains spoilers for the entire season of Peacock’s Mrs. Davis. There may be more thematically rich, artistically audacious TV shows on this spring. There has not, however, been anything that comes close in strangeness, shock value, or delightfully stupid humor than Peacock’s Mrs. Davis, which this week dropped …
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Midway through the second episode of the new Peacock series Mrs. Davis, vengeful nun Simone asks her rodeo cowboy ex Wiley to help her make sense of the events of the show up to that point. “Don’t underestimate how stupid this gets, sweetheart,” he warns her. It is almost impossible …
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