![]() ![]() For a performer, it’s a painful, unfortunate part of show business. ![]() Actor Diana-Maria Riva is all too familiar with one of her shows being canceled. Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter, with film, TV and streaming reviews and more. And he is, as a professional in classical ballet, rather in awe of what he calls “the Trocks.”įinally, 60 Minutes (Sunday, CBS, Global, 7:30 p.m.) promises an interview with a former Facebook employee who says Facebook is “lying to the public and investors about the effectiveness of its campaigns to eradicate hate, violence and misinformation from its platforms.” One of the talking heads is James Whiteside, principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre. But filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart’s other task is to make it clear that this group of performers is not a joke-act. It’s a charming and shrewd take on the male ballerinas of the legendary Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, part performance documentary and part portrait of the performers and the company. Rebels on Pointe (Saturday, documentary channel 9 p.m.) is a repeat but a gem you may have missed. In Rebels on Pointe, filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart reveals the history of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the all-male, drag ballet company founded over 40 years ago on the heels of New York's Stonewall riots. In the way that the genre works, the six-part mystery includes a lot of material about family, about politics and about unforgotten mistakes of the past. The new case is then connected to the murder of a prominent politician’s daughter. She’s paired with Mark Hess (Mikkel Boe Folsgaard), who thinks the work is beneath him, as he’s a Europol agent. Then in contemporary Copenhagen, detective Naia Thulin (Danica Curcic) is trying to get a transfer away from crime work and reluctantly takes on a new case. The camera makes sure you notice tiny ornaments made from chestnuts. At the farmhouse he finds a scene of mass murder and one survivor, a child. It starts in 1987, and a cop in rural Denmark is alerted that a farmer has let his cows escape. ![]() It might feel like a premise you’ve encountered before, but in the way Scandi-noir works, it is anchored as much in domesticity as it is in crime fighting. The Chestnut Man (streams on Netflix) is a newly arrived and better-than-standard Scandinavian-noir thriller. 4 of 9 airs Sunday and previous episodes are streaming on Crave.ĭanica Curcic as detective Naia Thulin in the Scandinavian-noir thriller The Chestnut Man. This self-contained world is bankrupt, but is it entirely bankrupt of morality? That’s the question that will draw you in, if you have the patience. The Grace character is shockingly candid about her cynicism. There are long scenes of the character slowly blending his drug concoction and they are so long it becomes mesmerizing. ![]() The main figures just say outright that despair is around them. It doesn’t present a central figure and then slowly expose the rot around them. The third-wheel is Del Harris (Jeff Daniels), the local police chief with a lot of baggage – combat service in Iraq that he never recovered from, a depressing experience as a police officer in Pittsburgh, and now he’s surviving on a concoction of medications that make him feel alive, but just barely.Įveryone is flawed, and just hanging on, and open about it. His mother Grace (Maura Tierney, who is superb) has a dead-end job, no health care and an unresolved relationship with her ex-husband. He was a high-school football star, but he got lost in drink, drugs and dumb fighting. Billy Poe (Alex Neustaedter) should represent hope for the future. It’s beyond decayed, this place, all closed factories and tensions about locals losing their property to the banks. The drama is set in the fictional town of Buell in western Pennsylvania, not far from where Mare of Easttown was set. There’s a murder and evidence is hidden, for what are, at first, unknown reasons. And the woman who connects them, the young man’s mother. The 21 best TV series to stream so far in 2021Īdapted from the novel by Philipp Meyer (by Meyer and Dan Futterman), American Rust is about a very troubled but archetype-ordinary young man, and an older man who has been scarred by history, both his own and that of the United States. What’s lost in the dismissals is this: the series is a good thriller, albeit a subdued one, and damaged people at the end of their tether are not uninteresting figures. ![]()
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