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Aristus

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4. It was a limited series for one of the streaming services.

Reply to Glorfindel (Reply #3)

Tue May 26, 2020, 05:05 PM

May 2020

Very well made and acted. It portrays 1890's New York as a pretty grim place.

My one beef with the series is that it portrays Teddy Roosevelt, at that time NYC Police Commissioner, as an ineffectual wimp. Something Roosevelt was only in his childhood.

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"Blade Runner" trailer, re-imagined and re-edited as an old-school noir film. [View all] Aristus May 2020 OP

Wow...thanks, Aristus Glorfindel May 2020 #1

She was incredibly beautiful, and in this role at least, touchingly vulnerable. Aristus May 2020 #2

Thanks again! I didn't know "The Alienist" had been made into a movie. Glorfindel May 2020 #3

It was a limited series for one of the streaming services. Aristus May 2020 #4