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Mrs. America: Phyllis Season 1, Ep 1
Phyllis, the first episode of Mrs. America, introduces Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly (portrayed by Cate Blanchett). The docudrama chronicles the real-life political movement that Mrs. Schlafly spearheaded in the 1970s against women’s liberation and LGBT rights. [more inside]
Book: The Water Dancer
From Ta-Nehisi Coates, the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.
Norsemen: Seasons 1 & 2, It's good to be the chieftain? Season 1, Ep 0
Waiting for the return of Game of Thrones? Missing the awkward comedy of The Office? Check out Norsemen on Netflix! [more inside]
Movie: Rashomon
A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view [content warning]. [more inside]
Movie: Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress, falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. [more inside]
Movie: Army of Shadows
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France. [more inside]
The Department of Time: Un virus de otro tiempo (A Virus from Another Time) First Watch Season 2, Ep 5
During a mission in 1918 to attend the birth of Carmen Amaya, Irene falls ill with the Spanish flu. New undersecretary Susana orders (against regulations)) that Irene be retrieved and returned to the Ministry, risking widespread exposure to a highly contagious disease that once killed millions and for which there is no vaccine. Soon, more personnel begin to show flu symptoms and the Ministry is forced to close its doors to prevent the disease from being spread through time. [more inside]
Book: Lamb
The Department of Time: Cómo se reescribe el tiempo (How time is rewritten) First Watch Season 1, Ep 3
The Ministry sends agents to 1940 after a man being chased by Nazis promises to show Heinrich Himmler how to travel in time if he'll spare his life. Amelia, Julián and Alonso travel to Montserrat. Ernesto and Irene go to Hendaye, where Hitler and Franco negotiate Spain's participation in WWII. [more inside]
The Department of Time: El tiempo es el que es. (Time is what it is.) First Watch Season 1, Ep 1
El Ministerio del Tiempo (The Ministry of Time) is the best kept secret of the Spanish state: an autonomous government institution whose patrols guard the doors of time and preserve Spain's past. Now, the Ministry's newest recruits: an Army of Flanders soldier from 1956, (Alonso de Entrerríos,) a female college student from 1880 (Amelia Folch) and a modern day SAMUR paramedic (Julián Martínez,) must prevent two Frenchmen in 1808 from altering a war's outcome.
Peaky Blinders: The Duel Season 4, Ep 5
An epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of 1920s Birmingham. [more inside]
Peaky Blinders: Dangerous Season 4, Ep 4
An epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of 1920s Birmingham. [more inside]
Peaky Blinders: Blackbird Season 4, Ep 3
An epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of 1920s Birmingham. [more inside]
Movie: Coming Home
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. Twenty years later, he returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
Peaky Blinders: Heathens Season 4, Ep 2
An epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of 1920s Birmingham. As the Shelbys come to terms with the shocking events of Christmas Day, Tommy endeavours to unite his family. [more inside]
Peaky Blinders: The Noose Season 4, Ep 1
An epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of 1920s Birmingham.
When he receives a mysterious letter, Tommy realises that the Shelbys are in danger [more inside]
Movie: Anthropoid
In the winter of 1941-1942, two Czech soldiers (Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan) parachute back into occupied Czechoslovakia. Their mission is to assassinate the Butcher of Prague: SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler. [more inside]
Book: The Luminaries
The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel hailed as "a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly."--New York Times Book Review. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men... [more inside]
Movie: The Assassin
An assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in seventh-century China. [more inside]
Sons of Liberty: The Uprising Season 1, Ep 2
From the Boston Tea Party to Lexington Green.
Sons of Liberty: A Dangerous Game Season 1, Ep 1
"As young men, Sam Adams (Ben Barnes), John Adams (Henry Thomas), Paul Revere (Michael Raymond-Jame), John Hancock (Rafe Spall), and Dr. Joseph Warren (Ryan Eggold) join forces as the Sons of Liberty seeking to start a revolution in this three-part miniseries." -- Metacritic [more inside]
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