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Johnny Worricker is always well-dressed, as seen in Salting the Battlefield on Masterpiece Contemporary.

Salting the Battlefield: Worricker’s Conclusion

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

November 17, 2014

Worricker (Bill Nighy) is on the run, now in Germany with ex-spy, ex-love Margot (Helena Bonham Carter) by his side. They’re stirring the embers of their faded romance and recalling all the quirks and peccadilloes they once found so endearing. (He doesn’t wash the lettuce properly! How adorable is that?) They live out of suitcases,…

Turks & Caicos: The Return of Worricker

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

November 10, 2014

“I used to be able to open the bonnet, take out a wrench and fix my car. Now I need a degree in electronics. Even easy things are difficult now,” a character tells Johnny Worricker in Turks & Caicos, which airs on Masterpiece Contemporary this week. Difficult or intentionally incomprehensible? I say it’s more…

Death Comes to Pemberley: Part 2

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

November 3, 2014

George Wickham is in jail facing trial for the murder of his best friend, Captain Denny. He says he didn’t do it and we believe him, but without a more likely perpetrator Wickham will swing for the crime. Meanwhile, Elizabeth is distraught believing that Darcy will blame her for bringing Wickham back into their lives.…

Bill Nighy and Rachel Weisz in Page Eight

Page Eight: Spies (Don’t) Like Us

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

November 10, 2011

There’s glamour in espionage. Even the word resonates with elegance and intrigue. It was once a career that required a tuxedo and a taste for vodka, and possibly a microdot camera and a recording device secreted in your signet ring. Or so we’ve been led to believe. Counter-espionage was grander still, because it meant you…

Kevin Whately as Inspector Lewis and Laurence Fox as Sergeant Hathaway/ Robert Day

Inspector Lewis: Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

September 7, 2011

At last, a reason to rejoice in the start of a new school year: Inspector Lewis is back in Oxford. Students, former students, and others in the vicinity are being murdered; and the mystery, as always, is tied to the elite, effete goings-on within that most hallowed university. Effete in the most feminine sense of…

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