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As HBO miniseries started developing in the mid-80s and early 90s, theIts Not TV.
Its HBOtagline would not have applied.
For the most part, HBO miniseries have changed in step withits multi-season shows.
(HBO original movies, on the other hand, are still lagging behind.)
FletcherandI May Destroy You; and big statements likeWatchmenandAngels in America.
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For its first venture into the miniseries, HBO adapted M.M.
But the Its not TV.
The flattening of this complex character into a colonial symbol carries over to the rest of the series.
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The miniseries is artful and thoughtful, with striking sequences throughout.
Its also fairly excruciating to watch.
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(The five days are 1, 3, 28, 33, and 79.)
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The fullness of the character redeems the series.
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He then takes an unlikely romantic interest in a free-spirited suffragette (Adelaide Clemens).
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Emma Thompson gives an alternately creepy and charismatic turn as the politician.
Its less a what if than a how to.
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But it loses some of its grip in the final episodes, which suffer from Kings typical third-act chaos.
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The facts are funny enough on their own.
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Fletcher(2019)
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The pleasures of the show are modest and ever-so-slightly imbalanced.
(Hahns erotic misadventures are more compelling than her sons humbling adjustment to young adulthood.)
But Perrotta has a fine sense of proportionality and a keen eye for comic detail.
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In the summer of 2014, Hamas militants kidnapped and killed three Jewish teenagers.
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The mixed-media conceit may explain why the pacing is so slack for a six-episode series.
(The inciting incident doesnt even happen until halfway through the second episode.)
But the extra time spent on characterization does pay off in sorting through the complicated motives of everyone involved.
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It also has a heartbreaking center in Gary McCullough (T.K.
Carter), a softhearted heroin addict whose personal decline mirrors the diminishment of his once-thriving neighborhood.
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The result is an educational and exciting drama as dogged and daring as NASA itself.
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The couples lifelong romance enduring through brutal political campaigning and family strife grounds this story.
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But it unfolded with the confidence and vision to support its provocations.
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ButThe Wires David Simon and Ed Burns carefully plant signs of the failures to come.
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The 1945 movie adaptation of James M. Cains novel starring Joan Crawford condensed the material into a film noir.
Haynes respects the emotional intensity of the genre while sumptuously re-creating the period.
As his Mildred hustles industriously to stay afloat, she bucks up against the humbling austerity of the times.
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1.Angels in America(2003)
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