Last year, I criticized PBS for spending its limited scripted-programming resources too conservatively on costume dramas. So let's give credit where it's due. This Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of the intellectually agile 2000 Zadie Smith novel (the story of a multiethnic cast of Londoners from World War II to the turn of the millennium) showed the network can be daring — and relevant — without losing its class. (PBS)
Epic times call for epic art, and nothing moved us more than The Return of the King. Other things we loved: Louis Vuitton, William Boyd and BBC's The Office And to the Atlanta group OutKast, we say "Stank you very much!"