Browsing: Overlooked

In the early and mid-aughts, Peter Krause was a particularly hot property on television, mainly due to his greatest role in Alan Ball’s family drama masterpiece, “Six Feet Under.” Once the HBO show ended in 2005 after five seasons, Krause was immediately cast in the lead role of “Civic Duty,” a conspiracy thriller that flopped…

In his most recent TV role, Australian actor Travis Fimmel swaps the cunning warrior mentality of his “Vikings” character Ragnar Lothbrok for the keen mind of a cold case detective. The Australian crime drama “Black Snow” premiered in 2023 and stars the actor as James Cormack, who investigates a different grisly case in each of the show’s two…

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Some of the best sci-fi films ever made warn us about the threat of artificial intelligence. “The Terminator” and “2001: A Space Odyssey” are among the more popular ones. Less is said about 1976’s “Logan’s Run,” Michael Anderson’s underappreciated dystopian thriller that paved the way for an unsung television series of the same name. Given…