Mandel Maven's Nest: Television Remote Patrol



Nora Lee Mandel is a member of New York Film Critics Online. Her reviews are counted in the Rotten Tomatoes TomatoMeter:


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”TV” now includes: Broadcast, Cable (Basic and Premium), On Demand, streaming on Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Apple+ (and many others I’m not yet paying), web platforms (some free, some subscription), and (if all else fails) eventually on DVD. But enough! There’s just too many to pay for, so I can only try to cover every worthwhile series that I can most easily access as I binge and/or get behind because the networks/channels are more and more limiting the episodes easily available gratis.

HALL OF DAMES Current to Past

HUNK 'O' METER: Televisa Para Planchar Current to Past

QUALITY TELEVISION Current to Past

Mandel Maven's Nest LILITH WATCH: CRITICAL GUIDE TO JEWISH WOMEN ON TV

IMPACT OF 9/11 ON NYC THROUGH TV FICTION

IMAGES OF DENTISTS AND PREVENTIVE TOOTH CARE ON TELEVISION

I do have a bias to watch series actually filmed in New York City, particularly in Queens, and ones I see filming here in my neighborhood. I’ve seen Forest Hills play the role of: Berlin, Germany in The Americans; Warsaw, Poland in The Blacklist; Chicago in The Good Wife; Geneva, Switzerland in Madam Secretary; near Strasburg in Quantico, and 1940’s Newark in David Simon’s HBO adaptation of The Plot Against America:
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Mandel Maven's Nest LILITH WATCH: CRITICAL GUIDE TO JEWISH WOMEN ON TV

2024/2025 Season - Jewish women in fiction and non-fiction series, as guest characters and regulars included:
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Debra Messing on 11th Season
The Porter
Seaside Hotel (Badehotellet) - ”Sarah Fjeldsø” on 9th Season
Silent Witness - ”Rivka” on 26th Season
Vienna Blood – 4th Season

2023/2024 Season - Jewish women in fiction and non-fiction series, as guest characters and regulars included:
Astrid
The Chosen
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Susie Greene etc. on the Final Season
Elsbeth
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Alanis Morrisette and Lena Dunham on 10th Season
Little Bird
World on Fire – 2nd Season

2022/2023 Season - Jewish women in fiction and non-fiction series, as guest characters and regulars included:
All Creatures Great and Small – Season 3
Andor
Cobra 2: Cyber War
The Equalizer – 3rd Season
Israeli TV in U.S. - The New Black (Shababnikim)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - Miriam “Midge” Maisel etc. –in the 5th season
The Patient
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge - Natalie Portman
A Small Light
Vienna Blood – 3rd season


2021/2022 Season - Jewish women in fiction and non-fiction series, as guest characters and regulars included:
Better Things – 5th the Final Season
Blue Bloods - Season 12
Call the Midwife – in 11th Season
Gossip docu-series – Cindy Adams
Grace and Frankie – Frankie Bergstein in the 7th season – Parts 1 and 2
Hallmark Channel’s Eight Gifts Of Hanukkah
Impeachment: American Crime Story – Monica Lewinsky and mother
Madame Blanc Mysteries
My Unorthodox Life
Ridley Road
Vienna Blood – 2nd season


2020/2021 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
The Alienist: Angel of Darkness - Bitsy Sussman
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Good Fight – Marissa Gold in Season 3
A Place To Call Home - Sarah Adams in the 2nd/3rd/4th/5th seasons
Younger – Lauren Heller and mother in the 7th season


2019/2020 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
Arrow – Felicity Smoak in the Final, 8th Season
Better Things – 4th Season
Earth’s Sacred Wonders
Elena of Avalor - Princess Rebekah in Season 3
Fear the Walking Dead – Sarah in Season 5
The Goldbergs – Beverly and Erica plus in the 7th season
The Good Fight – Marissa Gold in Season 1
Grace and Frankie – Frankie Bergstein in the 6th season
Hallmark Hanukkah Movies
Harvey’s Girls
Hunters – Ruth Heidelbaum and Mindy Markowitz plus in Season 1
Israeli Television Series Streaming in U.S., including Muna and Asylum City (both seen at 2019 Other Israel Film Festival)
Murdoch Mysteries
NCIS – Ziva David in Season 17
Our Boys
A Place To Call Home - Sarah Adams in the 1st season
The Plot Against America
Pose – Frederica Norman in Season 2
Preacher – Dany in Season 4
The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park (at 2019 Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival)
Résistance – Marie Kirschen and Cristina Boïco
Riviera
Suits – Esther Litt Adelstein in the 9th season
Unorthodox
Vienna Blood – 1st season
Will & Grace – Grace Adler in the revived and final 11th season
The Windermere Children/In Their Own Words
World On Fire – 1st season
Younger – Lauren Heller in the 6th season


2018/2019 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
Arrow – Felicity Smoak in the 7th Season
Better Things – in the 3rd season
Claws
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – Rebecca Bunch, her mother, and others in their 4th season
Deutschland 86
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce – Abigail McCarthy in the 5th Season
The Goldbergs – Beverly and Erica plus in the 6th season
Good Trouble – Emma Kurtzman in the 1st season
Grace and Frankie – Frankie Bergstein in the 5th season
High Maintenance
Israeli Television Series Streaming in U.S.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - Miriam “Midge” Maisel etc. –in the 2nd season
Poetry in America
Portraits in Architecture – Nadia Breitman-Jakov
Stockholm – 1st season
Suits – Esther Litt Adelstein in the 8th season
The/Le Tunnel – Elise Wassermann in the 3rd season
We Will Meet Again – 2nd season
Will & Grace – Grace Adler in the revived 10th season
X Company – 2nd and 3rd Seasons
Younger – Lauren Heller plus in the 5th season


2017/2018 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
The Alienist
Apt JKL
Arrow – Felicity Smoak in the 6th Season
The Artful Detective a.k.a. Murdoch Mysteries
Better Things – Sam Fox and her daughters in the 2nd season
Call the Midwife
Chicago Med
A Christmas Story Live!
Claws
The Collection
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – Rebecca Bunch, her mother, and others in their 3rd season
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are
The Fosters – Emma Kurtzman in her 5th season
A French Village (Un Village Français) – 6th and 7th seasons
Genius: Picasso – Gertrude Stein
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce – Abigail McCarthy in the 4th Season
Grace and Frankie – Frankie Bergstein in the 4th season
I Love Dick – Chris Kraus
The Goldbergs – Beverly and Erica plus in the 5th season
Knightfall
Madam Secretary – Nadine Tolliver in the 4th season
Miriam “Midge” Maisel etc. –in the 1st season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
McMafia
Nazi Fugitives
Odd Mom Out – Jill Weber in the 3rd season
On The Spectrum (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
Oversharing (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
Playing House
Preacher – Dany in Season 2
Salvation
Saving Hope – Dr. Sydney Katz in the 5th season
The Tale
The/Le Tunnel – Elise Wassermann in the 2nd season
Under Her Skin - Linda Friedman-Schmidt
UnReal – Rachel Goldberg and others in the 3rd season
Veep - Shawnee Tanz in the 6th season
Will & Grace – Grace Adler in the revived 9th season
X Company – 1st Season
Younger – Lauren Heller plus in the 4th season


2016/2017 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
Arranged
Arrow – Felicity Smoak in the 5th Season
Berlin Station – Golda Friedman and others in the 1st season
Better Things – Sam Fox and her daughters in the 1st season
Code Black
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – Rebecca Bunch, her mother, and others in their 2nd season
Dirty Dancing
Documentary Now
Doubt
The Fosters – Emma Kurtzman in her 4th season
A French Village (Un Village Français) – 4th and 5th seasons
Genealogy Roadshow
Genius – Elsa and Pauline Einstein and others in the 1st season
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce – Abigail McCarthy in the 3rd Season
Girls – Shoshanna Shapiro in the 6th Season
The Goldbergs – Beverly and Erica plus in the 4th season
Grace and Frankie – Frankie Bergstein in the 3rd season
Hawaii Five-0
Homeland – 6th Season
I Love Dick – Chris Kraus in the pilot
The Interestings – Julie Jacobson and others in the pilot
Madam Secretary – Nadine Tolliver in the 3rd season
Madiba – Ruth First and Helen Suzman in the mini-series
Miriam “Midge” Maisel –in the pilot for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
New Girl – 6th season
Odd Mom Out – Jill Weber in the 2nd season
Ray Donovan – Avi’s mother in the 4th season
Ripper Street – Deborah Goren and Rachel Castello in the 4th & 5th Seasons
Saving Hope – Dr. Sydney Katz in the 4th season
Switched At Birth
This Is Us – 1st season
The/Le Tunnel – Elise Wassermann in the 1st season
UnReal – Rachel Goldberg and others in the 2nd season
Who Do You Think You Are
The Wizard of Lies – the Madoff women and others
Younger – Lauren Heller plus in the 3rd season


2015/2016 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
Aquarius
Arrow – Felicity Smoak in the 4th Season and in The Flash
Belief
Chicago P. D.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – Rebecca Bunch, her mother, and others in their 1st season
Devious Maids
Elementary
The Enfield Haunting
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Fosters – Emma Kurtzman in her 3rd season
A French Village (Un Village Français) – 2nd and 3rd seasons
Gigi’s Bucket List
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce – Abigail McCarthy in the 2nd Season
Girls – Shoshanna Shapiro in the 5th Season
The Goldbergs – Beverly and Erica plus in the 3rd season
The Good Wife – Marissa Gold
Grace and Frankie – Frankie Bergstein in the 2nd season
Grantchester
Homeland – 5th Season
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Knick – “Genevieve Everidge” in the 2nd season
The Last Ship – Lt. Ravit Bivas in the 2nd Season
Legends
Madoff - Ruth Madoff and others in Madoff
Madam Secretary – Nadine Tolliver in the 2nd season
Manhattan – Abigail Isaacs in the 2nd season
Man Seeking Woman – Liz and Patti Greenberg plus in the 2nd season
Married – Jess in the 2nd season
Marvel’s Agent Carter – Ana Jarvis in the 2nd season
Masters of Sex
Mistresses – Ariella Greenburg in the 3rd season
Murder in the First - Raffaella “Raffi” Veracruz
New Girl – 5th season
Odd Mom Out – Jill Weber in the 1st season
Saving Hope – Dr. Sydney Katz
Shades of Blue
The Strain – 2nd Season
Suits – Esther Litt Adelstein in the 5th season
Transparent – Sarah, Ali, family and friends in the 2nd season
UnReal – Rachel Goldberg and others in the 1st season
The Walking Dead
Who Do You Think You Are
Younger – Lauren Heller in the 2nd season


2014/2015 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
Arrow – Felicity Smoak in the 3rd Season and in The Flash
The Big Bang Theory - Mrs. Wolowitz in her 8th and Final Season
The Blacklist
Blue Bloods
Boardwalk Empire
The Book of Negroes
Broad City – Ilana and Abbi in their 2nd season
Downton Abbey
The Dovekeepers
Community – Annie Edison in the 6th season
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Fosters – Emma Kurtzman in her 2nd season
A French Village (Un Village Français) – 1st season
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce – Abigail McCarthy in the 1st Season
Girls – Shoshanna Shapiro in the 4th Season
Glee - Rachel Berry etc. in the 6th/final season
The Goldbergs – Beverly and Erica plus in the 2nd season
The Good Wife – Marissa Gold in the 6th season
Grace and Frankie – Frankie Bergstein in the 1st season
Grimm
Hart of Dixie – Dr. Zoe Hart in the 4th season
Houdini
Hindsight – Lolly Levine
The Honourable Woman – Nessa Stein and more
House of Lies – Sarah Guggenheim
Inside Amy Schumer – 3rd Season
In the Face of Crime (Im Angesicht des Verbrechens)
Madam Secretary – Nadine Tolliver in the 1st season
Manhattan – Abigail Isaacs in the 1st season
Mad Men - Rachel Menken and sister in the last season
Man Seeking Woman – Liz and Patti Greenberg plus in the 1st season
Married – Jess in the 1st season
New Girl – 4th season
Parks and Recreation - “Mona Lisa Sapirstein”
The Red Tent/Women of the Bible
The Strain – 1st Season
Transparent – Sarah, Ali, family and friends in the 1st season
Younger – Lauren Heller and mother in their 1st season


2013/2014 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
Arrow – Felicity Smoak in the 2nd Season
The Big Bang Theory - Mrs. Wolowitz in the 7th Season
Black Box
Broad City - Ilana and Abbi n the 1st season
Call the Midwife
Community – Annie Edison in the 5th season
Drop Dead Diva
Elementary
Fargo
The Fosters – Emma Kurtzman in her 1st season
Generation Cryo
Girls – Shoshanna Shapiro in the 3rd Season
Glee - Rachel Berry etc. in the 5th season
The Goldbergs – Beverly and Erica plus
Hart of Dixie – Dr. Zoe Hart in the 3rd season
House of Lies - Sarah in her 2nd season
Inside Amy Schumer – 2nd Season
Joan Rivers – everywhere
Magic City – Evans family, etc. in the final, 2nd season
NCIS - Ziva David in her final season
New Girl – 3rd season
Parks and Recreation - “Mona Lisa Sapirstein”
Princesses: Long Island – 1st Season
Prisoners of War (Hatufim) – 2nd Season
Strike Back – Rebecca Levy in her 2nd season
Transparent– Sarah, Ali, family and friends in the pilot


2012/2013 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
American Horror Story: Asylum – “Anne Frank”
Arrow – Felicity Smoak in the 1st Season
The Big Bang Theory - Mrs. Wolowitz in the 6th Season
Community – Annie Edison in the 4th Season
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr./Who Do You Think You Are
Girls – Shoshanna Shapiro in the 2nd Season
Glee - Rachel Berry and Sugar Motta in the 4th season
Hart of Dixie – Dr. Zoe Hart in the 2nd season
Hawthorne
House of Lies - Sarah in her 1st season
Inside Amy Schumer - 1st Season
Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? - Joan and Melissa Rivers – 3rd season
Major Crimes
NCIS - Ziva David in her 8th season
Parks and Recreation - “Mona Lisa Sapirstein”
Prisoners of War (Hatufim) – 1st Season
Ripper Street – Deborah Goren in the 1st Season
Shameless (U.K.) – Esther Blanco (plus)
Southland
Strike Back – Rebecca Levy in her 1st season
Suits in the 2nd season
Underemployed – Raviva
Weeds


2011/2012 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
The Big Bang Theory - Mrs. Wolowitz in the 5th Season
Community – Annie Edison in the 3rd Season
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Susie Greene etc.
Entourage - Mrs. Ari Gold in the 8th Season
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Friday Night Dinner – Jackie Goodman in the 1st Season
Girls – Shoshanna Shapiro in the 1st Season
Glee - Rachel Berry and Sugar Motta in the 3rd season
Harry’s Law - Harriet Korn in the 2nd season
Hart of Dixie – Dr. Zoe Hart in the 1st season
Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? - Joan and Melissa Rivers – 2nd season
Magic City – Evans family, etc. in the 1st season
NCIS - Ziva David in her 7th season


2010/2011 Season- Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
18 To Life – Bellow Mother and Daughters
Being Erica – Erica Strange – 3rd season
Being Human
The Big Bang Theory - Mrs. Wolowitz in the 4th Season
Brothers and Sisters
Community – Annie Edison in the 2nd Season
Entourage - Mrs. Ari Gold in the 7th Season
Glee - Rachel Berry in the 2nd season
The Good Wife – Marissa Gold
Grey’s Anatomy
House, M.D. – Lisa Cuddy in the 7th season
Hung
Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? - Joan and Melissa Rivers – 1st season
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
NCIS - Ziva David in her 6th season
Skins (U.S.) – Tea Marvelli
What Not To Wear


2009/2010 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
The Big Bang Theory - Mrs. Wolowitz in the 3rd Season
Being Erica – Erica Strange – 2nd season
Community – Annie Edison in the 1st Season
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Susie Greene etc.
Entourage - Mrs. Ari Gold in the 6th Season
Glee - Rachel Berry
Glee - Rachel Berry
The Good Wife
Leverage
NCIS - Ziva David in her 5th season
Nip/Tuck
Nip/Tuck
Private Practice
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
Z Rock – Dina Malinsky, Joan Rivers and others in the 2nd season


2008/9 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
The Big Bang Theory - Mrs. Wolowitz in the 2nd Season
Being Erica – Erica Strange
Entourage - Mrs. Ari Gold and others in the 5th season
Hallmark Hall of Fame – Loving Leah
House, M.D. – Lisa Cuddy in the 5th season
The L Word - Jenny Schecter in the 6th, final season
Mayim Bialik – comeback guest star
NCIS - Ziva David in her 4th season
Rescue Me – Valerie in her 2nd season
The Sarah Silverman Program in her 3rd season
The Starter Wife - Molly Kagan post-mini-series
Z Rock – Dina Malinsky, Joan Rivers and others


2007/8 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
The Big Bang Theory - Mrs. Wolowitz in the 1st Season
The Cleaner
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Susie Greene etc.
House, M.D.
The L Word - Jenny Schecter in the 5th season
Law & Order: SVU
Mad Men - Rachel Menken and Bobbie Barrett
Mandrake – Berta Bronstein
NCIS - Ziva David in her 3rd season
Nip/Tuck– Rachel Ben Natan
Pushing Daisies– Charlotte “Chuck” Charles
The Riches – the faux Cherien Rich in her 2nd season
The Sarah Silverman Program in her 2nd season
Weeds – Bubbe Botwin
The Wire - Rhonda Pearlman in the 5th season


2006/7 Season- Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
Brothers & Sisters – Nora Holden
Entourage - Mrs. Ari Gold and daughter Sarah in Season 3A and Entourage - Mrs. Ari Gold and daughter Sarah in Season 3Band Entourage - Mrs. Ari Gold and daughter Sarah in Season 4
Heroes – Hana Gitelman
The L Word - Jenny Schecter in the 4th season
Mad Men - Rachel Menken
NCIS - Ziva David in her 2nd season
Nip/Tuckk – 3rd season
Rescue Me – Valerie in her 1st season and Beth Feinberg
The Riches – the faux Cherien Rich
The Sarah Silverman Program
The Unit
Waking the Dead
Weeds - Yael Hoffman
The Wire - Rhonda Pearlman in the 4th season


2005/6 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars on:
Beautiful People - Annabelle Banks
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Susie Greene etc.
Entourage - Mrs. Ari Gold and daughter Sarah in the 3rd Season
Everwood - Delia Brown in the 4th season
The L Word - Jenny Schecter in the 3rd Season
NCIS - Ziva David
On E.R., Everwood, and Grey’s Anatomy
Sopranos - Julianna Skiff


2004/5 Season - Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
Entourage - Mrs. Ari Gold
Everwood
Everwood
Grey’s Anatomy
The L Word - Jenny Schecter in the 2nd Season
Law and Order
Numb3rs - The Late Mrs. Eppes
The O.C. - Rebecca Bloom and the Nana in the 2nd Season
Pilot Season
Queer as Folk - Melanie Marcus in the 5th Season
The Wire - Rhonda Pearlman in the 3rd season


2003/4 Season- Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Anna
Everwood
Gilmore Girls - Paris Geller
Joan of Arcadia
The L Word - Jenny Schecter
Line of Fire
Miss Match
Nip/Tuck - Mrs. Grubman
The O.C. - Anna Stern and the Nana
The Practice
Rocked With Gina Gershon
Sex and the City - Charlotte Goldenblatt
Skin
Sopranos- Fran Felstein
Street Time - Rachel Goldstein
Wonderfalls


2002/3 Season
Breaking News
Everwood
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Gilmore Girls - Paris Geller
Law and Order
Sex and the City - Charlotte York
Street Time - Rachel Goldstein
That Was Then
The Wire - Rhonda Pearlman


2001/2 Season Jewish women guest characters and regulars included:
7th Heaven
2000/2001 Season
1999/2000 Season


IMAGES OF DENTISTS AND PREVENTIVE TOOTH CARE ON TELEVISION (carrying on the work of Dr. Irwin D. Mandel z”l): Including --
2 Broke Girls
American Horror Story
Backstrom
The Blacklist
Bones
Broad City
Castle
Call The Midwife
Elementary
Deadly Dentists
Desperate Housewives
Dexter
Eye Candy
Feud: Joan Crawford & Bette Davis
Girls5Eva
Glee
Glenn Martin DDS
The Good Wife
Hart of Dixie
Hindsight
House of Lies
Justified
The Knick/Boardwalk Empire
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Sex Victims Unit
Life
Little Mosque on the Prairie
Lost
Major Crimes
Marvel’s Agent Carter
The Mindy Project
Mercy Street
Medium
Mr. Monk
Motive
NCIS
Orphan Black
Queen of the South
Rizzoli & Isles
Rosewood
Sleepy Hollow
Stan vs. Evil
Suburbatory
Teen Wolf “After After Show”
Us
The Walking Dead/Fear the Walking Dead
The Whole Truth
Ugly Betty
Vegas
White Collar
Younger
Z Nation


9/11 IN TV FICTION: Including—
American Crime
Beauty and the Beast
Becker
Berlin Station
Billions
Blue Bloods
Bones
The Bureau (Le Bureau des Légendes)
Chicago Fire
Conviction
Designated Survivor
Fear The Walking Dead
First Ladies Revealed
Golden Boy
Homeland
Inside the FBI – New York
Jokes -- including: The Big Sick, Children’s Hospital, Community, The Good Wife, House of Lies, Awkward, Inside Amy Schumer, Garfunkel and Oates, Louis C.K., Maron, Saturday Night Live, Younger
London Spy
The Strain
Madam Secretary
The Newsroom
The Night Of
Person of Interest
Quantico
The Strain
Third Watch
Touch
The/Le Tunnel
Without A Trace/C.S.I.:NYC/Castle/Rubicon


Danish writer/director Tobias Lindholm on the difference between writing for TV [as in Borgen, the complete 3 season series available in a box set from MHz Networks’ International Mysteries”] vs. his films [The Hunt, R, A Hijacking (Kapringen)]:
“TV series and films are two widely different ways of telling stories. A film, to simplify it a bit, is a character’s journey from one point to another. A movement. From unhappy to happy. From lonely to in love. From alive to dead. In a TV series, conversely, the characters are caught in an arena. In a kind of fish tank where, episode after episode, we try to look in on them from new angles and tell what we see. Over and over. New developments. Setbacks. Conflicts. And we have the liberty of leaving questions much more open for the audience. Because you can always answer them in the next episode. Or the next.”
From “If I Told You I Saw A Cow”, an interview with Per Juul Carlsen, originally in the May 2012 issue of the Danish Film Institute’s festival magazine Film, #75.


QUALITY TELEVISION
61st Street
The 99 Names of God (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
American Born Chinese
Arrested Development
Better Call Saul
Bobby Kennedy For President (streaming on Netflix) (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
Chernobyl
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dark Winds
David Makes Man
Docu-Series (and Rectify) including The Beatles: Get Back, College Behind Bars (preview at 2019 New York Film Festival of Film at Lincoln Center), Mastermind: To Think Like A Killer and The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth (at 2024 Tribeca Film Festival)
Driver Ed [for the talent potential] (6/8/2024)

Fargo
The Fourth Estate (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
The History of White People in America (short) (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
Homeland
Imports: on MHz Networks, Sundance Channel, BBC America, Ovation, PBS’s Masterpiece and “Walter’s Choice”, and mini-series, including The Hunter (Il cacciatore), Best of Youth (La Meglio gioventù) and Labyrinth of Peace (Frieden), on streaming services.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Lodge 49
Mr. Robot
The Night Manager
Ray Donovan
Shameless/Skins (UK and USA)
Silicon Valley
Snowfall
Star Wars: prequels/sequels/series
Taboo
The Terror
This Is Us
True Detective
Under Her Skin (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead: Dead City (at 2023 Tribeca Film Festival)
Watchmen
Yellowstone and historical prequels

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: WATCH FOR REPEATS ON CABLE OR DVD/VIDEO/STREAMING
24
100 Center Street
American Crime
American Family
At Home with the Braithwaites
Attachments
BallyKissAngel/Haimish MacBeth/Monarch of the Glen
Boardwalk Empire
Boss
The Bridge; Bron/Broen; The/Le Tunnel
Breaking Bad
British Series: Glasgow Kiss/NY-LON/Party Animals
Brotherhood
Carnivale
The Chris Isaak Show
City of Men
Cold Feet
Cracker
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Dexter/Epitafios (Epitaphs)
Easy Money
Flight of the Conchords
Friday Night Lights
Going to California
Glee/Smash
Homicide
House, M.D.
House of Lies
In A Land of Plenty
In Treatment
The Job
Kings
The Knick
The Leftovers
Lost
Louie C.K.
Lucky
Mad Men
MI-5 (Spooks)
The Mysterious Benedict Society
The Newsroom
The Office (Brit and U.S. versions)
Oz
The Naked Brothers Band
Prison Break
Project Greenlight: 1st Season - "Stolen Summer"
Project Greenlight: 2nd Season - "Battle of Shaker Heights"
Project Greenlight: 3rd Season - "Feast"
Red Road
Remember WENN/The Lot
Rescue Me
The Shield
The Sins
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Sleeper Cell
Sons of Anarchy and Mayans M.C.
The Sopranos
State of Play
Switched at Birth
Teachers (Brit)
Tell Me You Love Me
The Thick of It
Third Watch
This Life
Traders
Trapped
True Blood
Turn
Underground
Undeclared
Viva Blackpool!
West Wing
The Wire: The Best Novel on Television
Wonderland
You’re The Worst


HALL OF DAMES

#SupportWomenArtistsNow
#InternationalSWANs
#iSWANs
#FF2Media

The Affair
American Horror Story
Atlanta
Blindspotting
Call the Midwife
Dinette (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
Duo Dames Sitcoms: Playing House and Doll & Em
Cleaner Daze (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
Empire
Feud: Joan Crawford & Bette Davis
Good Behavior
Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice
Hanna
Home [for the talent potential]
The Horror of Dolores Roach (at 2023 Tribeca Film Festival)
House of Dragons
Humans
Jane The Virgin
Kevin Can F**K Himself
Kung Fu
Lifetime: Is This Television for Women? (including Any Day Now)
Fabled (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
Made For Love
Masters of Sex
McCleod’s Daughters
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Nice (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
Normal People (preview at 2020 Tribeca Film Festival)
Outlander
Oversharing (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
Picnic At Hanging Rock (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
Portlandia
She-Hulk: Attorney At Law
Snugglr
Sweetbitter (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
Titans
Veep
Vera
Vida (Season 2 preview at 2019 Tribeca Film Festival)
Westworld (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)
The White Queen

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: WATCH FOR REPEATS ON CABLE OR DVD/VIDEO/STREAMING
30 Rock
Alias
The Americans
Arli$$
Awkward
Battlestar Galactica
Big Love
Bones
British Guilty Pleasures: Bad Girls/Holly Oaks/(American)The Girl’s Guide to Depravity
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Burn Notice
Charmed
Chemistry
The Closer
Damages
Dark Angel
Desperate Housewives
Earth: Final Conflict
Enlightened
Falcon Beach/Beyond the Break
Farscape
Gilmore Girls
Girls
The Good Wife
Greek/Quarterlife
Halt and Catch Fire
Hung
In Plain Sight
The Killing
Lincoln Heights
Malcolm in the Middle
Medium
The Middleman
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman
My Boys/The Mob Doctor/The Huntress
Nikita/La Femme Nikita
Nurse Jackie
Once and Again
Once Upon A Time
Orphan Black
Over There
Parks and Recreation
Penny Dreadful
The Pretender
Prime Suspect
Samantha Who?
Saving Grace
Sex and the City/BBC's Coupling
Standoff
Star Trek: Voyager
State of Grace
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Ugly Betty
United States of Tara
Veronica Mars
Weeds
The X Files

BRING 'EM BACK THEY WAY THEY WAS AND NEVER WERE: A PLEA FOR RE-RUNS/FIRST RUNS
Karen Sisco
life as we know it/Manchild


HUNK 'O' METER: Televisa Para Planchar

Costumes-that-Come-Off Dramas: Game of Thrones/The Vikings/Knightfall/The Lost Kingdom/Black Sails/The Borgias/Spartacus/The Tudors/Rome/Robin Hood/Sharpe's Adventures
Crime Does Pay - Spotless/Banshee/White Collar/Leverage/Hustle/Smith/Thief/Heist/The Kill Point
Crime Doesn't Pay- Aquarius/Justified/Longmire/Artful Detective/Copper/Ripper Street/Luther/Low Winter Sun/The Glades/Memphis Blue/Southland/Dark Blue/The Cleaner/Terriers/Procedurals, including Robbery Homicide Division and Strike Back
Mother Magnet Young Heart Throbs - In The Dark/Dawson's Creek/One Tree Hill/Wildfire/10 Things I Hate About You/Make It or Break It/Secret Life of the American Teenager
Sci Fi Shows: Now and Into Rerun Infinity - Alien Invasions (including Roswell), Apocalypse Coming, Conspiracies (including John Doe and Veritas: The Quest), More Than Pigs in Space (including Firefly), Special People Among Us, Time Traveling, and Vampires/Werewolves (including Angel, Loki, The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, and Wolf Lake)
Tantalum (preview at 2018 Tribeca Film Festival)

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: WATCH FOR REPEATS ON CABLE OR DVD/VIDEO/STREAMING
Dirt
Due South
Entourage
Felicity/Bedford Diaries
The Guardian
Hannibal
Hell on Wheels
The Hunger
Men in Trees
Mr. Sterling
The Nine
Nip/Tuck
The O.C.
Playmakers
Queer as Folk
Resurrection Boulevard
Saved
Smallville
Street Time
Tilt
Undressed
The Whistler/The Mountain
Without A Trace

BRING 'EM BACK THEY WAY THEY WAS AND NEVER WERE: A PLEA FOR RE-RUNS/FIRST RUNS
The Beat
Boomtown
Dream Street
Eyes

The excellent, though uneven and inconsistent, episode guides at TV provide pretty thorough credits, recaps and trivia, sometimes including music identification. (updated 10/19/2006)



My comments on such late lamented shows as Under Suspicion and EZ Streets (which so atmospherically and eerily used Caroline Lavelle and Loreena McKennit songs) got lost in the ether in an earlier version of this web site. (updated)



(updated 3/5/2025)



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