If Harlots has a prevailing aesthetic, it’s chaos.
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“Well, I guess you’ll have to fix me up also. I’m not staying in this gol-darned country all on my lonesome.”
“This is clean beyond me, Mr. Holmes. We saw you when we returned from Tunbridge Wells last night, and you were in…
“You know my methods. Apply them, and it will be instructive to compare results.”
Ah, Harlots. Rarely has a show about such wretched people been so delightful to watch.
The first season of Harlots was an unexpected delight: a dialed-to-eleven revenge drama with a stellar cast,…
“His labor in these years...must have been great; the pushing and pulling strong and continual. The good plan…
“We’re helping you guys record yourselves sleeping just like every kid in every family does.”
When a series reaches a certain age, it gets a sense of narrative moving in both directions. There’s the history the…
“Castle In The Sky” ends The Alienist. It would be overstating the case to say it finishes The Alienist. It…
We are in the penultimate episode of a series advertised as an edgy historical serial-killer story so frenetic only…
“You think we’ll see any buffalo in North Dakota?”
“There are two reasons a man does what he does. The good reason, and the real reason.”
When it comes to The Alienist, weirder is better. You can see when it really comes alive, and none of it is in the…
“Can I ask you to button my boots?”
There are a pair of short, illuminating scenes in the middle of “Silver Smile.”
“And what is my role to be in all of this?”
“Why weren’t you a part of this?”
“You’ve caused me a sleepless night, Laszlo. The first of many, I suspect.”