Schmigadoon!: darker musical influences make season two a more complex, but satisfying watch: Warning: the following article contains spoilers for Schmigadoon! series one and two. Apple TV’s musical comedy Schmigadoon! has just aired its second series. It follows couple Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) and Melissa (Cecily Strong) in their adventures in the magical town of Schmigadoon, …
Fawlty Towers reboot – with farces out and ‘dramedies’ in, audiences could see a darker side of Basil Fawlty: Approaching its 50th anniversary, Fawlty Towers is back in the news, due to the announcement of a US reboot where Basil Fawlty is now running a boutique hotel in the States with his daughter – to …
Sylvia Plath’s famous collection Ariel is far darker than she envisaged: “Love” is the first word in Ariel, the collection of poems published by Faber and Faber in 1965 that made Sylvia Plath one of the most famous poets of the post-war generation. In many ways, Ariel, as Plath conceived it, is all about love. …
Digital nomads have rejected the office and now want to replace the nation state. But there is a darker side to this quest for global freedom: Vasin Leenanuruksa / Alamy A ‘network state’ is ideologically aligned but geographically decentralised. The people are spread around the world in clusters of varying size, but their hearts are …
Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portraits expose the darker side of the 60s: Christie's Images Ltd “If you remember the ‘60s, you weren’t really there”. This famous quip says much about our rose-tinted nostalgia for the decade. The fun-loving hedonism of Woodstock and Beatlemania may be etched into cultural memory, but Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portraits …
The Lost Daughter: portraying the darker sides of motherhood on the page and the screen: Netflix Since the enormous success of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, Italy’s leading female author, who famously writes under a pseudonym, has become a global phenomenon with a name of its own: Ferrante Fever. Saverio Costanzo’s HBO television drama My Brilliant …
South Africa in the news: Pronounced seam, darker red, harder core: The ball for India-England Test series: The official match ball used for the India-England Test series will provide extra bounce and retain its hardness till the 60th over, according to official suppliers Sanspareils Greenlands (SG).: “South Africa” – BingNews Were laying down red carpet …
British TV drama may look world class, but coronavirus has exposed a darker reality: Ralph Little stars as DI Neville Parker in Death in Paradise. BBC Pictures The BBC has been heavily trailing four-part JK Rowling adaptation Strike: Lethal White. The crime drama, which follows private detectives Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, is the fourth …
Being darker makes being a migrant much harder: In India, dark skin is often associated with poverty, partially due to the hierarchichal caste system. Shutterstock South Africa is becoming infamous on the world stage for its violent, even deadly, xenophobia. Attacks periodically erupt. Often the targets are African foreign nationals as well as Bangladeshis and …