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Esther D. Kustanowitz

Esther D. Kustanowitz

Esther D. Kustanowitz wrote a TV column for J. She is based in Los Angeles and has been known to track #TVGoneJewy. Follow her on Twitter @EstherK.

The main cast of "The Good Place."
Posted inTV & Film

Saying goodbye to ‘The Good Place’ from my place (Judaism)

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz February 3, 2020February 4, 2020
Rufus Sewell as John Smith, a former U.S. army hero who works for the German Reich after they conquer the U.S. in an alternative fiction of WWII.
Posted inTV & Film

‘Man in the High Castle’ wraps up with a dire warning about rising fascism

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz December 16, 2019December 17, 2019
From "The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch," now available on Netflix.
Posted inTV & Film

Swiss film depicts religious awakening but is far from woke

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz November 8, 2019
Still from the musical finale of “Transparent” (Photo/Erin Simkin, courtesy Amazon Prime)
Posted inTV & Film

Subversively Jewish to the last, ‘Transparent’ goes out with a song

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz September 26, 2019October 1, 2019
Shlomi Elkabetz plays the lead investigator in “Our Boys.” (Photo/Courtesy HBO-Ran Mendelson)
Posted inTV & Film

‘Our Boys’ will make you uncomfortable, which is exactly why you should watch it

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz August 29, 2019August 30, 2019
(From left) Rebekka Johnson as Dawn, Jackie Tohn as Melrose and Kia Stevens as Tammé in season 3 of “GLOW” (Photo/Courtesy Netflix-Ali Goldstein)
Posted inTV & Film

Season 3 features a revealing desert seder for the gorgeous ladies of ‘GLOW’

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz August 13, 2019August 14, 2019
Michael Kenneth Williams and Chris Evans star in "Red Sea Diving Resort." (Photo/Netflix- Marcos Cruz)
Posted inFilm

On Netflix, by way of S.F., a thriller based on Operation Moses

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz July 30, 2019August 7, 2019
Handmaids rehearse “the ceremony” in Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Photo/George Kraychyk)
Posted inTV & Film

How the future of ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ echoes our Biblical past

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz June 20, 2019June 20, 2019
“Good Omens,” a six-episode Amazon miniseries based on the book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, stars Michael Sheen (left) as the angel Aziraphale and David Tennant as the demon Crowley. (Photo/Amazon Studios)
Posted inTV & Film

Heaven and hell, angels and demons: Welcome to TV in 2019

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz June 6, 2019
Scene from "Law & Order: SVU" episode "Assumptions"
Posted inCulture

‘Law & Order’ episode touches on Ilhan Omar tweets and MAGA hat teens

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz May 16, 2019May 17, 2019

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