This week’s options include Taylor Sheridan’s meditation on grief and fly-fishing, plus a new Pride and Prejudice spin-off, Lisa Kudrow’s comeback in The Comeback and a couple of catch-ups.
The Madison ★★ (Paramount+) Who hates the city of New York more? Iran’s Revolutionary Guards or Taylor Sheridan? That is one of several unexpected questions posed by The Madison, the latest series from Sheridan, the prolific creator of Yellowstone, Landman, and Lioness . His new show may nominally be about grief and healing, but its disdain for NYC borders on zealotry. The city, on Sheridan’s show, harbours horrible people, rampant street crime and political correctness, and lacks fly-fishing opportunities.
Somehow, despite living in a penthouse thanks to massive Wall Street-related earnings, Preston and Stacy Clyburn (Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer), have remained good people. Their children and grandchildren? Completely infected. Preston’s balm is his holidays with his widowed brother, Paul (Matthew Fox), at their ranch in Montana’s Madison River Valley. They fly-fish, admire the magnificent landscape, and decry “that city”. Stacy and the family never visited, due to her aversion for using an outhouse.
Michelle Pfeiffer delivers a strong performance in the otherwise dull The Madison. That all changes when the brothers, on their way back from a rare fly-fishing spot, perish in an accident. Flung into grief, Stacy comes to the ranch, along with her extended family, to not just bury Pre
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