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Miniseries

  1. vulture recommends
    Did I Dream This Gritty Wizard of Oz Miniseries?Syfy’s Tin Man feels like being transported back to a wilder, riskier era of TV.
  2. vulture lists
    Every HBO Miniseries, RankedSome of the network’s best, most daring work has come in the form of a limited series.
  3. close read
    Class of ’09 Leaves Its Biggest Case UnsolvedIn its pursuit of the threat AI poses to the criminal-justice system, the miniseries stumbles into an indictment of that threat’s root cause.
  4. callouts
    Mike Tyson Says Hulu Is the ‘Streaming Version of the Slave Master’He claims that the streamer’s series Mike stole his life story and did not pay him.
  5. tv’s nicole kidman
    Nicole Kidman to Make Heartbreak Feel Good in a Place Like Your HomeBaz Luhrmann is reworking his 2008 movie, Australia, into a miniseries.
  6. finales
    Under the Banner of Heaven Was No MysteryIt was the patriarchy all along.
  7. tv review
    Candy Leaves a Sour AftertasteHulu’s weightless true-crime miniseries has little sense of what it wants to say about the 1978 axe murder of Betty Gore, or why it should say it.
  8. spoilers
    Let’s Talk About the Ending of The Girl BeforeSure, your landlord might be a serial killer, but real-estate prices are rough out there!
  9. tv review
    Pam & Tommy Reveals the Story You Don’t Know — But Also Kind of DoHulu’s miniseries about the internet’s first viral sensation is a satisfying but familiar entry in the expanding genre of ’90s-set redemption tales.
  10. animation
    How Maya and the Three’s Jorge R. Gutiérrez Crafted a New Kind of Fantasy EpicThe new miniseries’s creator breaks down its unique blend of Mesoamerican history, Latin American culture, and Lord of the Rings–inspired mythology.
  11. tv review
    Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain Give Life to Scenes From a MarriageThe HBO remake of Ingmar Bergman’s miniseries is an extraordinarily well-acted, often affecting meditation on what bonds and divides two people.
  12. trailer mix
    Call the Scenes From a Marriage Trailer Mamma Mia: Here We Marriage Story AgainOscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain still make it look hot.
  13. tv review
    Halston, An Unwitting Cautionary TaleA Ryan Murphy-produced series about a creator whose brand gets diluted to the point it no longer carries a guarantee of his signature style. Hm.
  14. fashion
    Ewan McGregor Defends His Casting As Legendary Gay Designer Halston“I suppose, ultimately, I felt like it was just one part of who he was.”
  15. tv review
    Mare of Easttown Is More Than It Appears to BeThe HBO limited series starring Kate Winslet is not not a familiar-looking crime drama, but its appeal goes much deeper than that.
  16. tv review
    It’s a Sin’s Clear-Eyed Look at the AIDS Crisis Has One Big Blind SpotRussell T Davies’s often beautifully moving limited series, now on HBO Max, falls into a familiar pattern that complicates its central tragedy.
  17. tv review
    Behind Her Eyes Is Trolling YouNetflix’s new psychological thriller operates entirely in service of an ending so twisty and strange that it obliterates everything that came before.
  18. trailer mix
    Get Netflix’s Behind Her Eyes Trailer in Front of Your EyesAnd start speculating about that twist.
  19. today in wigs
    Kenneth Branagh Will Play Boris Johnson in COVID MiniseriesBoJo à Go-Go.
  20. trailer mix
    Stephen King’s The Stand Trailer: Come With Whoopi Goldberg If You Want to LiveThe new miniseries will apparently “close with a new coda” written by Stephen King himself.
  21. tv review
    The Good Lord Bird Is a Historical Epic That Speaks of and for the PresentEthan Hawke’s fiery John Brown is ultimately a supporting player in this savage, often corrosively funny portrait of the lead-up to the Civil War.
  22. backstories
    How to Make a Coronavirus Rom-com in IsolationLove in the Time of Corona director Joanna Johnson breaks down what went into remotely filming the miniseries’ cast in their own homes.
  23. tv review
    Little Fires Everywhere Almost Matches the Novel’s Incendiary Power. Almost.The Reese Witherspoon–Kerry Washington–starring adaptation is Hulu’s version of a page-turner, with a greater emphasis on melodrama than its source.
  24. tv review
    The Plot Against America Is a Devastating, Relevant Alt-History DramaDavid Simon and Ed Burns bring Philip Roth’s novel to HBO with an incisive depiction of just how personal politics can become.
  25. tv review
    Devs Takes Its Time to Blow Your MindThe FX on Hulu miniseries has all the hallmarks of a story by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation), but that may be more of a liability in TV form.
  26. hbo
    Justin Theroux and Woody Harrelson Plunge Into HBO’s White House Plumbers Series“I heard you plumb White Houses.”
  27. tv review
    Looking for Alaska Is the Rare Adaptation That Improves on the OriginalHulu’s long-gestating miniseries adaptation of John Green’s 2005 YA novel moves the story closer to what it perhaps should’ve been in the first place.
  28. tv review
    Unbelievable Is a Radical, Exceptional Crime SeriesThe Netflix drama starring Merritt Wever and Toni Collette is less about finding the bad guy than it is about the value of understanding the victim.
  29. tv review
    The Spy Feels Like a Memorial Plaque Turned Into a MiniseriesNetflix’s six-part miniseries is a functional but inert take on the story of Eli Cohen, played with unblinking straightness by Sacha Baron Cohen.
  30. rmcu
    Ryan Murphy Cinematic Universe Expands With A Chorus Line MiniseriesHe will not rest!
  31. eight weddings and two funerals
    Four Weddings and a Funeral: The Film vs. The MiniseriesThe Hulu miniseries keeps the foundational elements of the 1994 film but puts a decidedly different spin on the iconic rom-com.
  32. remakes
    If Marilyn Manson Isn’t Satan in The Stand, Then What Was the Point of All This?The second most exciting piece of Marilyn Manson news we’ve ever heard.
  33. tv review
    The Loudest Voice Is All Bluster and Little InsightRussell Crowe plays Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes with zeal (and awkward prosthetics) in a Showtime series that’s more about the what than the why.
  34. tv review
    Years and Years Is a Gripping Account of a Society’s Existential CrisisWhen this bitter pill of an ostensibly speculative miniseries is firing on all cylinders, it plays like a fusion of This Is Us and Children of Men.
  35. party report
    Ava DuVernay on Trump’s Latest Central Park Five Comments: ‘I Don’t Care’“It’s expected. It’s not a big deal to me.”
  36. tv review
    Chernobyl’s Unsparing Account of Nuclear Disaster Is a Lot to TakeHBO’s five-part mini-series is a philosophical gut-punch, a reminder that there’s no disaster that can’t be made worse through human pettiness.
  37. overnights
    I Am the Night Recap: In a Lonely PlaceJay has one last chance to write his own redemption story, and Fauna Hodel is going to help him write it.
  38. casting
    Kate Winslet Is Coming Back to HBO for a Dark and Moody Crime MiniseriesWinslet will star in Mare of Easttown, playing a Pennsylvania cop who investigates a murder.
  39. casting
    Jason Clarke Will Romance Helen Mirren’s Catherine the Great in HBO Mini-SeriesHe’ll play Catherine’s lover Grigory Potemkin on the HBO/Sky co-production.
  40. casting
    The Great Helen Mirren Will Play Catherine the Great in an HBO Mini-seriesThe four-part mini-series is an HBO–Sky co-production.
  41. rumor mill
    Netflix Is Eyeing George Clooney–Produced Watergate SeriesOscar-nominated Bridge of Spies scribe Matt Charman is writing the eight-episode mini-series.
  42. tv
    Ronald Reagan Limited Series Is Happening at USA (USA! USA!)His daughter Patti Davis is helping develop it.
  43. Alias Grace Trailer: Margaret Atwood’s Murder Story Gets a Netflix AdaptationThe six-part mini-series stars Sarah Gadon, Zachary Levi, and Anna Paquin.
  44. You Might Be Getting a BBC Little Women Miniseries Co-Starring Angela LansburyOur one beauty, back at it again.
  45. miniseries
    National Geographic Is Developing a How to Survive a Plague MiniseriesFinally.
  46. for the fannibals
    Fuller Wants a Silence of the Lambs Mini-SeriesConsider your bouche amused.
  47. hurrah
    Adventure Time 8-Part Mini-series Coming JanuaryAdventure Time: Islands debuts on Cartoon Network on January 30.
  48. the industry
    A Chandra Levy Miniseries Is Coming to TNTNetworks can’t get enough of true crime.
  49. casting couch
    Freida Pinto Joins Radical Guerrilla Mini-seriesAlongside Idris Elba.
  50. the industry
    BBC Orders Watership Down With John BoyegaIt’ll be slightly less horrifying with Finn’s voice, but still.
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