It’s a musical!

Skip the Mel Gibson remake and seek the original miniseries, stat.

but immensely entertaining thriller.

Before True Detective came this intricately constructed puzzle-drama. Michael Gambon is terrific as a toxic writer of pulps forced to examine the relationship between his

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‘’s Borgenexplores the tribulations of Denmark’s (fictional) first female prime minister.

Don’t wait until the inevitable American remake to start bingeing.

Could you use the Web to blackmail the British prime minister into having sex with a pig?

Jay Mohr starred on the abrasive Hollywood comedy as a wicked film producer with zero respect for anyone in a lower social stratum. His punchlines

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Is he truly innocent?

Will we ever know?

Can we root for him?

Phil Lord and Chris Miller (the guys who built The LEGO Movie ) created this animated treat about genetic copies of famous figures (Gandhi, Cleopatra)

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To want the answers is almost to miss the point.

This riotous British comedy about two incongruous flatmates in South London comes with a unique conceit: The viewer literally sees everything from the characters’ perspectives.

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Exec-produced by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney, this documentary-style dramedy was an absorbing portrait of how Hollywood’s other half — struggling actors — really live.

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A destination wedding is besieged by a killer and guests are picked off one by one on this totally ludicrous (Harry Hamlin gets chopped in

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Sort of like a Danish West Wing — except with less Sorkinian idealism and more ‘’?‘’s — Borgen explores the tribulations of Denmark’s (fictional) first

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The BBC series follows a group of midwives laboring in London’s impoverished East End during the 1950s. Though it may not deliver the opulence of

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After 19 years on death row, a man returns to rural Georgia when his conviction is overturned due to DNA evidence. Is he truly innocent?

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