The Alienist is simultaneously gorgeous and grimy. Obviously, that’s by design; 19 th century New York City was both a playground for the wealthy elite and a crowded pigsty for the city’s less ...
It is a long way from the uneven streets of 1896 New York City to the well-heeled slopes of Park City, but TNT’s The Alienist will feel right at home at this year’s Sundance Film Festival among the ...
Times have certainly changed. I’m not comparing today’s world to that of 1897; the scenes in the premiere of The Alienist: Angel of Darkness featuring police brutalizing innocent protesters highlights ...
New York in the 1890s was a fine place to live. But only if you were fabulously wealthy. For the rest — the poor, or the droves of immigrants — it was a bleak existence. Dozens of people crowded ...