‘Landscapers’ Sends Olivia Colman on a Puzzling Cinematic Journey: TV Review

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticComparisons between “The Silent Sea” — Netflix’s latest Korean-language drama — and this fall’s streaming phenom “Squid Game” extend well beyond their common tongue.

After a couple of detours in the land of James Bond, filmmaker Sam Mendes delighted audiences in 2019 with the release of his one-take war film, “1917,” proving the director hasn’t lost a step after dabbling in the superspy franchise.

K.J. Yossman Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler are Britain’s answer to Dr.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticHBO is currently airing a superlative show about the serendipity and possibility of life, and the unexpected discoveries that can emerge through conversation and openness.

NEW YORK -- It’s not often that two actors inhabit the same role seamlessly in a movie. But in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley play a woman in vastly different chapters in her life with a rare harmony.“The Lost Daughter,” Gyllenhaal's remarkably accomplished directorial debut, is adapted from Elena Ferrante's 2006 novel.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticMuch like the character at its center, “MacGruber” has a surprising ability to withstand bombs.In the late-aughts series of sketches on “Saturday Night Live,” Will Forte’s character, a riff on MacGyver, would inevitably get caught up in his own neuroses while attempting to dismantle an explosive, resulting in detonation before he came back, unscathed, for the next installment.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticYears into the COVID-19 pandemic, “Station Eleven” suggests we got off easy.Both the 2014 novel by Emily St. John Mandel and its limited-series adaptation on HBO Max tell the story of a viral plague that decimates the world’s population too quickly for any response.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAna Gasteyer — a shrewd, funny comedian adept at puncturing her characters’ pretensions — has long deserved a showcase.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThis article contains spoilers for the first four episodes of “And Just Like That.”The most striking homage to the legacy of “Sex and the City” in the new series “And Just Like That” lands like a bit of bitter irony, or a joke too caustic by half.“Sex and the City” ended, in 2004, with a montage of its characters having found fulfillment through romance and, crucially, self-acceptance, all set to the 1980s single “You Got the Love.” Two movies complicated but

She's the Oscar winning actress who scored another hit on the small screen when she replaced Claire Foy as the Queen in The Crown. And now Olivia Colman has teamed up with Harry Potter star David Thewlis to take the lead roles in a real-life crime story, written by Olivia’s real-life husband Ed Sinclair.The stars play mild-mannered couple Susan and Christopher Edwards, who are convicted of the murder of Susan’s parents 15 years previously.

Sleaford Mods frontman Jason Williamson has made a surprise cameo in new Olivia Colman-starring HBO miniseries Landscapers.Colman stars alongside David Thewlis (Harry Potter) in the show, which premiered on Sky Atlantic last night (December 7) and tells the story of a couple in late 1990s Nottingham who killed and buried Colman’s character Susan’s parents undetected for over 15 years.A synopsis for the show reads: “Landscapers tells a unique love story involving a seemingly ordinary couple who

The wild true story at the center of “Landscapers” came to its conclusion in 2014 when Susan and Christopher Edwards were convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder. The series opens, however, on the day of their capture.

husband-and-wife Susan and Chris Edwards (Colman and Thewlis) who, in 2014, were sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing Susan’s parents in 1998 and burying them in their backyard garden in Nottingham.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn the early aughts, an English couple, Christopher and Susan Edwards, were found guilty of the 1998 double homicide of Susan Edwards’ parents. However, for years after, the Edwards’ pretended the older couple was still alive, forging correspondence from them and drawing from their bank accounts.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticNBC’s holiday-season live-musical franchise is so proudly square that it’s surprising it took this long for them to get to “Annie.”The recent tradition, launched by the producers Neil Meron and the late Craig Zadan, of ceding a night of network primetime to a scrappy, let’s-put-on-a-show broadcast seems to have found its perfect match in “Annie.” The family-oriented musical has never had the remotest claim on coolness.

It’s official: Dakota Johnson can add “tattoo artist” to her already-extensive resume. In a December 1 interview with Town & Country, the 32-year-old revealed that she gave Olivia Colman her first-ever ink in October after a night of partying.

Dakota Johnson.During a chat with Town & Country, Dakota spoke of the film's cast celebrating after a New York Film Festival screening in October.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticChristmas is big business for TV; the content mill of light romantic comedies set around the holidays and celebrity-driven specials has come to make December feel, at moments, like a forced march of glee.