A likable feature waiting to be excavated from a padded TV series.
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Edward Burns' new Epix series time-travels back to 1980 — figuratively, not literally — for a Long Island-set coming-of-age story.
One of the most admirable things about Edward Burns' career since the writer-director-star's 1995 Sundance breakout
The Brothers McMullen is how well he has maintained his sense of scale. Somebody receiving a comparable level of festival hype today would have jumped immediately to a Marvel spinoff and vanished in grandiosity, but Burns has steadily continued to make small, character-driven ensemble pieces with brisk running times. You might not have heard of all of them, but they exist, they play festivals and I'm sure they have fans.