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It’s Lijana’s first big-ticket stunt since a serious accident a few years ago. They will start at opposite ends and meet in the middle, pass each other and continue to the end opposite from where they started. Highly recommended.Īlso airing this weekend – Highwire Live in Times Square With Nik Wallenda (Sunday, 8 p.m., ABC, City TV) is Nik Wallenda and his sister Lijana attempting to perform a 400-metre-long highwire walk across Times Square. Some scenes are blunt in their depiction of violence – there’s sex and nudity too – and throughout there’s a livid tension.

Each character has layers beneath what we first see. At sea, frightened angry men come to loathe each other.

On land, there is a seething tension beneath what the Germans think is a strong grip on things.

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The drama is a series of thrillers inside thrillers. Her brother has linked her to Carla Monroe (Lizzy Caplan, from Masters of Sex), a Resistance fighter whose anti-fascist leanings previously had her fighting in the Spanish Civil War. What unfolds then, in a finely made thriller mode, is Simone’s introduction to the French resistance. Ongoing, of course, is the multiseason adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, another novel that was first turned into a film. Recently we’ve seen a new adaptation of Catch-22 from Hulu, and a miniseries based on The Name of The Rose aired on Sundance TV. That is, multipart series based on books that were made into good movies. co-production.ĭas Boot (all episodes available to stream on CBC Gem) is also part of an odd little trend. It expands beautifully outward and inward. That was set almost entirely among the crew of a German U-boat in the first years of the Second World War.

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A sterling example is a new series derived from the very male and classic German movie Das Boot, from 1981. The British make Nordic-style thrillers, Netflix is everywhere and standards are so high that nothing gets an easy pass for being a nice Euro co-operation.

This current age of great TV has allowed all manner of storytelling to be elastic and excellent. Maybe a French star, a German writer and an English director, and what you got was something nobody could digest. It was applied to movies and TV series made with money and artistic input from various European countries. There was a time when the term “Europudding” was the kiss of death.

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