What’s worth your time in TV and movies this weekend?
Fox’s latest effort isMonarch, a hilariously miscast melodrama about “the first family of country music.”
Featuring sibling rivalries, blackmail, infidelity, and wigs oh, so many wigs!
Beth Ditto and Anna Friel in Monarch.FOX
Monarchis an often-ridiculous mess, and God help me, I will watch every episode.
(Have you suspended your disbelief yet?)
Showrunner Jon Feldman takes this gaudy tapestry of soapy scandal and drapes it around (what else?)
Viola Davis in ‘The Woman King’.TriStar Pictures
Conversely, Adkins is fine in the musical performance scenes but has the acting range of a mahogany Fender.
); and you could see one of the big reveals coming from a country mile away.
He detested Los Angeles, even when he lived there.
Neon
He played John Merrick in Broadway’sThe Elephant Manwithout recourse to makeup or prosthetics.
Charmingly, he was constantly wracked with doubts.
Bowie’s life was a pendulum, swinging between an impulse to connect and another to withdraw.
Adult Swim’s ‘Primal’.Adult Swim
“), gave way to the need to recharge and regroup.
His marriage to Iman.)
A ship as big as a city!
Um, the devil?
