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 icon1A 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 icon1A 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…
Richard Wexler·Dec 19, 2021African politics through an African lensThere are no white saviors in the fascinating, and frustrating, Senegalese-French political drama Wara
InTopic StoriesbyTopic·Aug 24, 20216 Degrees of Scandi TVYou may have heard of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Now get ready for Six Degrees of Scandi TV.
InTopic StoriesbyTopic·Aug 9, 202111 Crime Thrillers and Cocktail Pairings For the Perfect TV NightCan you name a better duo than a crime thriller and a cocktail? Here are 11 pairings to take TV night to the next level.
Richard Wexler·May 11, 2019A few more foreign TV favorites…including the television drama that proves the Dutch could teach Marie Kondo how to declutter, and the one in which Germans play Italians…
Richard Wexler·May 4, 2019From Denmark to Dunkirk, political drama — and one comedy — on foreign TVIs it possible to build an entire season of good television drama around Article 49.3 of the French Constitution? Actually, yes.
