Tag: Peter Harness
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TV Series Review: “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” (Toby Haynes, UK 2015)
In 2004, Susanna Clarke unleashed her debut novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, a sprawling, 1000-plus-page epic fantasy on the world. Neil Gaiman hailed the novel as “unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years,” a time period that notably includes The Hobbit and all of The Lord of…
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TV Episode Review: “Doctor Who” “Kill the Moon” (08.07, 2014)
Written by Peter Harness Directed by Paul Wilmshurst The conceit of this episode is fairly simple: the moon is actually a giant egg that hatches some sort of giant space dragon that is forcing its way out in 2049. The Doctor arrives with Clara and Courtney Woods (the troublemaking student we met last episode) in…