2/23/2023 0 Comments Ellen pillars of the earth![]() ![]() A tale of tumultuous events as they play out in the lives of the mighty and the humble who keep crossing paths, no matter how implausibly it harks back to “Roots” and “The Winds of War” in style, if not substance. There’s plenty of sex in the eight hours of “Pillars,” which begins on Friday night, but what’s most striking is how old-fashioned the project is. That gleefully smutty show extended pay cable’s run of frequently-removed-costume dramas, following “Rome” on HBO and “The Tudors” on Showtime. Starz did not buy the American rights to “Pillars” a German-Canadian production shot last year in Austria and Hungary with a mostly British cast until this spring, after its series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” became a hit. It just means that a lot of people do a lot of things, over a long period of time, on large sets built in Europe. ![]() That doesn’t mean it’s actually grand in any way. “The Pillars of the Earth” is a mini-series in the grand manner. ![]()
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