Sometimes you just want to watch a quirky investigator irritate people—especially wealthy and powerful people—into revealing they’ve committed crimes. Especially murder. I’ve been enjoying some new and new-ish mysteries lately, Poker Face, Elsbeth and The Residence. All three feature women investigating murders. All are series produced after Rian […]
Rachel Elspeth Gross interviews Daniel Lawson about costuming Carrie Preston as the always remarkably dressed Elsbeth Tascioni in The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and, in particular, the newish howcatchem mystery series, Elsbeth. “The crash and clash of colors and patterns on screen could easily become chaotic or […]
Screenwriter and director Frank Pierson has died. Pierson wrote such films as Dog Day Afternoon, Cat Ballou, The Anderson Tapes and Cool Hand Luke. Pierson also wrote teleplays for Have Gun Will Travel, The Naked City, Lakota Woman: The Siege at Wounded Knee, Mad Men and The Good […]