(HBO, 9 p.m., finale for part one of season one): Tonight, Roxana Hadadi will bid farewell to the Orphans of
The Nevers, at least for now while part two has not yet been scheduled, the six-episode run that concludes this evening is merely the first half the show’s first season. But while HBO may not be calling this a proper season finale, it sure seems like it’s got big finale energy. We’ve got an origin story for Amalia incoming! And just a guess we’re also likely to hear more about this big revelation, as described in Roxana’s recap of last Sunday’s installment (contains plot details, obviously):
From shooting challenges to a scary swan, and cast secrets.
The first two episodes are a slow burn as events are set in motion. Rumors fly about Liamâs intentions being nefarious. Dark Winters family secrets come out, primarily involving Bethâs complicated relationship with her volatile widower stepdad. Billy gets pulled into the drama surrounding Liamâs trouble with the law. And, as is usually the case, money â specifically, gold â is at the center of everything.
When the time finally arrives, in Episode 3, for Beth to make her escape, viewers are rewarded with an hour of nonstop action â everything thatâs been building produces one shocker after another. Even the smallest details from earlier become hugely important in this climax.
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The nightingale’s song has long been described as one of the most beautiful sounds in nature, and perhaps thanks to the Greek myth of sisters Philomela and Procne who were transformed into a nightingale and a swallow by the gods after exacting revenge against Procne’s rapist husband the bird itself has often been considered female. The reality in nature, though, is that female nightingales can’t sing at all. Whatever forces of genetics, biology, and science combined to give the male nightingale the ability to sing also denied the female that same skill.
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Take that ornithological observation and apply it to humanity, and you have the incredibly bleak perspective of “Death and Nightingales,” the miniseries adaptation of Eugene McCabe’s acclaimed novel. Writer and director Allan Cubitt follows pretty much all of McCabe’s novel’s beats in this three-part limited series (premiering on Starz on May 16), crafting a story about secrecy and betrayal, colonialism