Ken Burns’ Country Music is a riveting look at not only a musical genre, but at America and Americana in its broadest sense.
PBS Masterpiece: Les Misérables (TV Series Review)
A superb realization of Victor Hugo’s sprawling masterpiece of life and death in post-Napoleonic Paris
Masterpiece: Poldark — The Complete Fourth Season (TheaterByte Blu-ray Review)
Poldark Season 4 is a satisfying guilty pleasure, a lavishly filmed melodrama set against the rocky shoreline of Cornwall
Kingdoms of the Sky (TheaterByte Blu-ray Review)
A brilliant collaboration between PBS and BBC Earth that yields astonishing footage of the three greatest mountain ranges on the planet
Masterpiece: The Miniaturist (TheaterByte Blu-ray Review)
A beautifully shot period drama from Masterpiece based on the best-selling novel by Jessie Burton.
Endeavour: The Complete Fifth Season (TheaterByte Blu-ray Review)
The Blu-ray is barebones but satisfying and the series continues to be well written and well acted.
Masterpiece: Little Women (TheaterByte Blu-ray Review)
This mini-series adaptation of Luisa May Alcott’s novel is uneven, but worth seeing particularly for the veteran members of the cast.
Masterpiece Mystery! Unforgotten: The Complete Second Season (TheaterByte Blu-ray Review)
DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) and DI Sunil ‘Sunny’ Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) return and must uncover the mystery behind who murdered a a nearly perfectly preserved corpse discovered at the bottom of a lake.
Masterpiece: Poldark — The Complete Third Season (TheaterByte Blu-ray Review)
Revolution rages in France and the Poldarks try to repair their marriage as George Warleggan plots to destroy them in the satisfying third season of this melodrama.
Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War (TheaterByte Blu-ray Review)
Ten years in the making, Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s sprawling, 10-disc, 18-hour documentary The Vietnam War, a series that Ken Burns has said he hopes will help bring the country together at a time when he seems to splintering hopelessly, details one of the most divisive wars and eras in the nation’s history. In […]
