The Crown is fiction coated by veneer of truth—and Season 4 is the best one yet
The new season of the popular Netflix series focuses on the doomed fairy-tale royal couple and the British prime minister of the day, Margaret Thatcher
Drama
I’m besotted with Claire Danes’ Carrie
’Homeland’ offers another damaged-person role to the former star of ’My So-Called Life’
Fake Queen’s University advertisement plays up sterotypes
Entertaining, if you don’t take it too seriously
Sitcoms rule
Dramas and reality shows are getting trounced by half-hour comedies
Bullying 2.0 is more like a drama class
“Bullying” may be the accepted term for kid-on-kid brutality, but it’s seldom used among kids themselves
The Shakespearean Jack Layton
Like that of Henry V, Prince Jack’s passing leaves a big hole
Against specialization
Remember when choice and flexibility were good things?
Matt Damon sees dead people
Clint Eastwood’s pensive drama about the afterlife is a startling departure
‘Boardwalk Empire’ takes on ‘Mad Men’
HBO is hoping its new period drama can beat the one it turned down