Tag: Showtime mini-series

“Your Honor”–Judge Me Not

Written by Diana Paul on March 22, 2021. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews. 1 Comment on “Your Honor”–Judge Me Not

Unconditional love–are there limits? In Your Honor, a ShowTime mini-series, a highly respected recently widowed New Orleans judge, Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston of “Breaking Bad”) is known for his fair and impartial sentencing of young criminals. But the judge gets personal to protect...

The Spanish Princess–An Imperial Royal Highness

Written by Diana Paul on February 8, 2021. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews.

The Spanish Princess is a ShowTime limited series based on the novels The Constant Princess (2005) and The King’s Curse (2014) by Philippa Gregory. This is a drama about the teenage Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon (Charlotte Hope who played Ramsay Boulton’s lover...

“The Reagans”–Truth At Last

Written by Diana Paul on January 18, 2021. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 4 Comments on “The Reagans”–Truth At Last

A four-part Showtime documentary series, The Reagans excoriates the epic failure of journalism to reveal the Reagan White House as it really was, not the fairy tale of near-sainthood of Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan, Jr., the only son of the Reagans, is the primary source for details about his parents’ most private moments and...

“Time of Death”—Not for the Faint-Hearted

Written by diana on December 11, 2013. Posted in Television reviews. 1 Comment on “Time of Death”—Not for the Faint-Hearted

Not since Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s “On Death and Dying” with its study of the five stages of grief or Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death”, has there been such a tour-de-force depiction of the process of dying and the way that death impacts those who are left behind. This groundbreaking documentary series reminds me that many of us still have...

Tag: Showtime mini-series

“Your Honor”–Judge Me Not

The Spanish Princess–An Imperial Royal Highness

“The Reagans”–Truth At Last

“Time of Death”—Not for the Faint-Hearted

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