Recently, the BBC named British actress Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor in the eponymous Doctor Who. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Twittersphere and other social media have gone wild! Words of both support and cynicism started circulating immediately, but the comment...
Recently, I started watching a new British drama called Harlots. Harlots explores the rivalry between two different brothels in 18th century London. Margaret Wells runs one of the brothels, with Lydia Quigley running the other. If the brightly colored...
Name: Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme Occupation: Gardeners, amateur sleuths Location: England, and occasionally continental Europe As seen in: British television series Rosemary and Thyme Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme are accidental sleuths. Rosemary is an...
Full disclosure: this post was inspired by an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that I recently watched. In episode 8 of season 15 of the show a female member of the Coast Guard admits to being raped by four of her colleagues. When Benson and her squad...
The news that Gilmore Girls is coming back for a new series (rumours say this autumn) on Netflix is such welcome news, and got me thinking about how Gilmore Girls is such a wonderful show about the complicated but ultimately positive relationships women share with...
