(Don’t forget to catch up on season one.)
Hulu’s widely celebrated television adaptation of the groundbreaking feminist novel by Margaret Atwood returns for season two.
The Handmaid’s Tale (Season 2): Blessed be the fruit. It’s also one of Vogue’s best documentaries of all time! Jane (2017): Brett Morgen pieces together formerly lost footage shot by Jane Goodall’s first husband (the dashing National Geographic photographer Hugo van Lawick) in this critically lauded documentary about her early years observing chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park and, more generally, about wildlife conservation and sustainable development and environmental awareness, the crusades of her past three decades. Was it a well-timed attempt to set the story straight? Or was it the latest in a string of tasteless attempts at sensationalist headline-grabbing? Watch the film and decide for yourself. I, Tonya (2017): An Oscar-winning (Allison Janney, for Best Supporting Actress), genre-bending look at one of the 20th century’s most talked about scandals: the alleged attack of Nancy Kerrigan, spearheaded by her competitor Tonya Harding. I’m Dying Up Here (Season 2): Hulu’s sprawling dramedy about the claustrophobically insular world of stand-up comedy in Los Angeles in 1973 gets a second season and a new shot of relevance with the passing of Mitzi Shore, a figure who bears more than a passing resemblance to Melissa Leo’s starring character, Goldie.
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It is, so to speak, a movie of true Platonic love.” The Elephant Man (1980): David Lynch’s second feature adapts the stage play based on the true story of John Merrick (played by John Hurt), a grievously disfigured man who lived in London at the turn of the 19th century, cared for by a doctor (Anthony Hopkins) who learns that his patient is the bearer of what Richard Brody in The New Yorker called “a noble artistic soul.” There’s a surprising element of class distinction in the drama, writes Brody, “dividing those who yield only to their response to the immediately physical and those who look beyond appearances.
Below, the best new arrivals to stream from your favorite services, for your binge-watching pleasure in the month ahead. prestige content? Sure, why not! A mix of new and old titles are arriving at Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, with the latter acquiring nearly three dozen nearly forgotten miniseries from the 1980s ( Little Dorrit, Lorna Doone, Middlemarch, Sense & Sensibility) for those looking to lie back and think of the BBC.