Entertainment Weekly - 04.2020

HBO’S SIX-EPISODE ADAP-

tation of Wally Lamb’s

acclaimed 1998 novel (pre-

miering April 27) has a

stacked cast just from

its double bill of Mark

Ruffalo and Mark Ruffalo:

The Marvel star plays identi-

cal twins at the center of this

family saga, which charts

the relationship between

Dominick Birdsey and his

para noid schizophrenic

brother, Thomas, over sev-

eral decades.But writer-

director Derek Cianfrance

(The Place Beyond the Pines)

surrounds Ruffalo’s impres-

sive perfor mance(s) with

equally striking ones from

the likes of Rosie O’Donnell

as Thomas’ empathetic but

no-nonsense social worker,

The Good Wife’s Archie Pan-

jabi as his psychologist, and

Oscar winner Melissa Leo

as the twins’ ailing mother.

—JESSICA DERSCHOWITZ

No

10

No

9

This gripping entry in the

“every parent’s worst

nightmare” genre stars

The Avengers’ Chris

Evans as Andy Barber, a

Massachusetts prosecu-

tor tasked with solving

the murder of a teenage

boy who was stabbed

on his way to school. When

his 14-year-old son, Jacob

(IT’s Jaeden Martell),

becomes a suspect in the

crime, Andy and his wife,

Laurie (Downton Abbey’s

Michelle Dockery), are

thrust into a legal and

psychological ordeal. As

classmates spread

rumors and accusations

about Jacob on social

media, Andy and Laurie

must grapple with their

own doubts (and profound

guilt about those doubts).

Based on William Lan-

day’s twisty 2012 novel,

Defending Jacob (Apple

TV+, April 24) boasts a

stellar ensemble—includ-

ing Cherry Jones (The

Handmaid’s Tale), Pablo

Schreiber (Orange is the

New Black), and Sakina

Jaffrey (House of Cards)—

and delivers pit-in-

your-stomach suspense.

—KRISTEN BALDWIN

TV

DEFENDING

JACOB

TV

I KNOW THIS

MUCH IS TRUE

SILLY

SUBLIME

DOUBLE TAKE

We rank some of

TV’s more memorable

doppelgängers

Ewan McGregor

Emmit & Ray

on Fargo

Lisa Kudrow

Phoebe & Ursula

on Friends

Christopher Knight

Arthur & Peter on

The Brady Bunch

No

CRIP CAMP

MOVIES

8

Attendees describe

Camp Jened, Crip

Camp’s titular locale, as

“Woodstock” and

“a summer camp for the

handicapped run by

hippies.” It was also the

birthplace of a revolution.

This eye-opening

documentary from the

Obamas’ Higher Ground

Productions (on Netflix

March 25) is an engross-

ing portrait of teens

with disabilities who, in

the early 1970s, found

a welcoming countercul-

tural community at a

Catskills camp. As those

teens grow older and

begin to fight for their

rights, the film becomes

an invigorating account

of an activist movement

that’s been drastically

underexplored by the

media. —TYLER AQUILINA

14 APRIL 2020 EW ● COM

CRIP CAMP:

STEVE HONISGBAUM;

DEFENDING JACOB

: APPLE TV+;

I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE

: ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA/HBO

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