Richard Wexler·Jun 19, 2025Notes on three foreign dramas with Autistic central charactersAll are entertaining, at least two are extremely popular, and one could be a film school class in the art of the remake. But is all that a…
Richard Wexler·Feb 25, 2024A German television drama, and its de facto sequel, look at life before, during and after the wallBefore the review, a plea: These are great series — they’re also damn complicated, especially if you are neither German nor a student of…A response icon1
Richard Wexler·Aug 20, 2023A drama from Finland explores being a journalist in a post-truth worldWhen police raided the newspaper in the small town of Marion, Kansas this month, a myth quickly took hold among some journalists. It was…
Richard Wexler·May 28, 2022A salute to Neil Burnside — the spy who got me to MaltaContains mild spoilers about a 44-year-old television series you’ve probably never heard of — though it’s currently streaming on BritBox.A response icon1
Richard Wexler·Jan 30, 2022Netflix Japanese drama “The Journalist” is ripped from the headlines — and faithful to themAt the very end of a long closing credits sequence in The Journalist, the first series Netflix has commissioned from Japan, there appears…
