Read: 20 undersung crime shows to binge-watchįox’s remake-from the writer and producer Howard Gordon ( Homeland and 24) -doesn’t just ignore what made the original show so interesting it inverts it entirely. When committing a crime is a matter of survival or social justice, Accused asked, is it actually the intractability of the system that’s morally indefensible? The show’s insistent focus on marginalized, working-class lives-single mothers, factory workers, people well below the poverty line-gave it a slyly radical undertone. The original, created by the veteran British writer Jimmy McGovern, presented itself as an exercise in moral deliberation: Each episode introduced a character, revealed the crime they were on trial for and the circumstances that led to their committing it, and then left the viewer to conclude whether their actions were justified. export-where drabness and despair are necessary textural elements, qualities that inform our understanding of not just how but also why people do the very worst things they do.Īccused, a BBC anthology series that’s been remade for American network television, is the newest example of an intriguing conceit lost in translation. It rarely works, and almost never in crime drama-a key U.K. Whenever British TV shows are remade in the United States, they tend to undergo an uncanny glow-up: a smoothing-out of flaws, a shift in tone from pallid gray to vibrant gold, a wild uptick in the physical attractiveness of their stars.
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5/14/2023 0 Comments Ashley eckstein websiteWe did an event for Disney together via Zoom and then I slid into Nina's DMs because Nina is from Columbus, Ohio, and I do a lot of work with Nationwide Children's Hospital and their On Our Sleeves movement for children's mental health. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited! Nina has become one of my dearest friends over the pandemic. There can be no doubt that she’s a great fit for the geek couture fashion show coming to SDCC on July 21, but how did the connection with Ashley Eckstein of Star Wars: The Clone Wars come about? Eckstein opened up, saying: Nina West is a drag icon known for her appearance in Season 11 of RuPaul’s Drag Race as well as her music, activism, and advocacy. 5/14/2023 0 Comments Banana yoshimoto bookIn the story of the title, the narrator Mikage has lost her last remaining relative, a beloved grandmother with whom she lived. The source of what has been described as ``Bananamania'' in her native Japan, Yoshimoto combines traditional sensitivity to nuance and setting with a youthful sense of belonging to a wider, less specifically Japanese world-characters jog, eat Kentucky Fried chicken, and listen to American music: a combination that, apparently, made this novel-in reality two separate stories united by a theme of loss and survival-an instant success among younger Japanese. by Helen Mitsios)-explores love and loss with a distinctly contemporary sensibility. Young writer Yoshimoto's first full-length fiction to appear in the US-an excerpt of which appeared in New Japanese Voices (1991 ed. 5/14/2023 0 Comments Ransom by Julie GarwoodShe also knew that they would kill the young child, Alec, the son of a Highland chieftain, as soon as they discovered that they had kidnapped the wrong child. Unfortunately, Gillian had no idea, but she knew that they would carry through their threat of torturing and killing her Uncle Morgan if she didn't find the box. King John had never forgiven Gillian's father for murdering his great love, his beautiful Arianna, but he was convinced that Gillian would know where the box was hidden. For the Baron needed to produce Arianna's Box, a bejeweled golden box commissioned by King John, or King John would kill him. Claimed as Baron Alford's ward, Gillian was fortunate enough to be raised by her beloved Uncle Morgan, but Baron Alford soon called her back to his castle. Gillian was just a small child when she saw her father murdered by the vicious Baron Alford. Akar uses the shard’s magic to mobilize the disparate tribes of orcs across the land so he might gain dominion over Ten-Towns. Darkness approaches Ten-Towns as Akar Kessel happens upon Crenshinibon-the Crystal Shard-a magical relic with the power to amplify his magic. Salvatore’s debut begins at part IV-the first installment of The Icewind Dale Trilogy. I suppose one might excuse me for missing a book that released the same year I was born, but after this novel was recommended to me for the 3rd time, I knew I had to put everything aside and try it. There are several classic fantasy novels I’ve missed over the years because of “reasons.” The Legend of Drizzt series’s debut effort, The Crystal Shard, is one of these. 5/14/2023 0 Comments Savage lands by stacey marie brownThe rule of hierarchy puts humans on the bottom, where the only way to survive each day is to make alliances with the fae.Here she meets the sexy, vicious legend, Warwick Farkas. She must learn to live with the worst of fae and human criminals. Terrorhaz-where you go in but don't come out. Then one night the course of her life changes, and Brexley is thrown into the most feared prison in the east. After being orphaned, she is taken in by General Markos, living in a walled city rife with power grabs and ruthless political games. Nineteen-year-old human, Brexley, has grown up in privilege, but not without heartbreak. The prejudice between the sides is bubbling with hate and violence. A battle for dominance is brewing between the elite fae and the privileged humans in Eastern Europe. Almost twenty years after the barrier between Earth and the Otherworld fell in the Fae Wars, Budapest is balancing on the precipice. The series, currently consisting of four books, two spin off books, and a novella collection, is generally classified as contemporary young adult fantasy, with particular interest for teens. Stohl is best known as the co-author, along with her friend Kami Garcia, of the "Caster Chronicles" book series, starting with Beautiful Creatures. She attended the Creative Writing program of the University of East Anglia, where she was mentored by the Scottish poet George MacBeth. Stohl was a teaching assistant in Romantic Poetry at Stanford and in Film Studies at Yale. Margaret Stohl was born in Pasadena, California, 1967.Ī graduate of Amherst College, where she won the Knox Prize for English Literature, Stohl earned a master's degree in English from Stanford University and pursued, but did not complete, a doctorate in American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of 14 novels, as well as 5 volumes of comics and several videogames. Margaret Stohl ( / s t oʊ l/ born 1967) is an American novelist. (1998)īurton Stohl (father), David Stohl (brother) Most Innovative Game Design, Game Developers Conference Spotlight Award, Finalist, for Zork Grand Inquisitor. Morris Award, YALSA, ALA, Finalist, for Beautiful Creatures, with Kami Garcia. Knox Prize for English Literature, Amherst College. Beautiful Creatures "Mighty Captain Marvel" for Marvel Comics 5/12/2023 0 Comments The trial novel by franz kafkaShe receives his advance with exhaustion and indifference. He apologizes for the inquisition that took place there, of which she had been ignorant, and ends up kissing her vigorously. stays up until Fräulein Bürstner returns home and asks her to speak with him in her room. when she cast aspersions on fellow lodger Fräulein Bürstner's sexual morality. returns home and talks about his case with Frau Grubach, the proprietor of the lodging house. that his arrest shouldn't prevent him from going about his life and work as usual.Īfter a day at the bank where he holds a prominent position, K. meets with the guards' superior in the house and he informs K. After the guards insist they are mere lowly officials and have no information about the reason for his arrest, K. Willem and Franz, two guards dressed in black, occupy the living room of the lodging house where K. awakens to discover that he is under arrest for an unspecified crime. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Robert kirkman the walking deadGamesBeat: Part of the theme for our conference is this crossover that seems to be happening, perhaps with better quality than ever before, between things like comics and film and games. Marcus Graham, aka djWHEAT, of Fortis Games and Robert Kirkman, chairman of Skybound Entertainment and producer of The Walking Dead. Here’s an edited transcript of our interview. They’re going to talk about one of the key themes of the conference: Hollywood and Games - Are they one ecosystem, and if so, how has that changed? It fits with our general theme of The Next Level, and the session will address a big question: How can a video game, or any content, go to the next level? Joining Kirkman in a fireside chat will be Marcus “djWHEAT” Graham, vice president of community development at Fortis Games and a former longtime leader at Twitch. (You can get 40% off the ticket price with this code: GBSDEANNEWS early-bird pricing ends today Facebook Gaming is the headline sponsor of the event and the session). The GamesBeat Summit 2023 event takes place on May 22-23 in person in Los Angeles and on May 24 online. We talked about these topics as a kind of preview for our event in May. A small but not insignificant caterpillar eats various items for some days in a row and then becomes “a beautiful butterfly.” Could it be that all creatures have this ability, to start small and become something infinitely beautiful? I think so and clearly Carle did too. Why is this book so inspiring for children and adults alike? It’s a simple concept, really. Let’s take “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” Carle’s classic and best-known work, first published in 1969. His writing followed suit it felt effortless and it gave children and adults something sublime to munch on. I’ll start with Carle, whose aesthetic as an illustrator is effortless and pure play. But it was only as an adult when I first aspired to be a children’s book author that I began to study their work. I had many Carle books as a child and remember seeing Ehlert’s brightly colored books in one of my Milwaukee, Wisconsin, classrooms growing up. Eric Carle, the creator of 70 picture books for children and adults passed away Sunday at 91, and Lois Ehlert, known most notably for illustrating “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,” died Tuesday at 86. The world has lost two giants of children’s literature. |