Marlon James, HBO and Millie Black

Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James discusses his new HBO series 'Get Millie Black'
NPR's Scott Simon asks Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James about his new HBO series set in Jamaica. It is called "Get Millie Black."
Marlon James complicates the haunted detective story with Get Millie Black
Marlon James’ Get Millie Black immediately subverts expectations: The HBO drama, which premiered November 25, is a detective story, not, as you might expect from a collaboration between one of the greatest novelists of this century and one of the biggest purveyors of fantasy shows,
Marlon James’ Novels Are Masterpieces. His New HBO Series Achieves Something Similar.
The title character (Tamara Lawrance)—inspired by James’ own mother, a Jamaican detective inspector —carries some of the usual TV-cop baggage. As a girl, Millie tried to defend her little brother Orville (Chyna McQueen) from their abusive mother and as a result got shipped off to England,
Marlon James & Tamara Lawrance On Portraying The “Richness” Of Queer Caribbean Communities In ‘Get Millie Black’
Get Millie Black' has been discussed by Marlon James and Tamara Lawrance, who talked about the Channel 4-HBO series and Caribbean communities.
‘Get Millie Black’ review: In Jamaica, a police detective is haunted by threats old and new
A police detective in Jamaica works to track down a missing teenage girl and the case proves to be more complicated — and dangerous — than anticipated in the five-episode HBO drama “Get Millie Black.” A sunbaked noir,
Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Get Millie Black’ On HBO, Where A Scotland Yard Detective Returns To Her Home In Jamaica And Faces Her Tormented Past
In a new HBO/Channel 4 drama, a former Scotland Yard detective goes home to Kingston, but has to contend with her past as well as the family she left behind after being banished to London. Opening Shot: A sunny shot of a tropical bush and an old house.
Josh Brolin saw John Travolta use Scientology techniques on Marlon Brando in Barbra Streisand's living room
In his newly released memoir, Josh Brolin recounts a time he watched John Travolta heal Marlon Brando in stepmother Barbra ...
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The suspenseful second entry in Marlon James’ Dark Star fantasy trilogy outdoes the first
Marlon James is taking a structural cue from Rashomon in his Dark Star trilogy, an epic fantasy set in a fictionalized version of ancient Africa filled with mythical creatures, witchcraft ...
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Slavery’s Ghost Haunts a Booker Prizewinner’s First TV Show
Marlon James’s new HBO detective series, “Get Millie Black,” draws on Jamaica’s colonial history as well as his family’s experiences. By Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff Reporting from London In ...
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Nine things we learned from Marlon James's Desert Island Discs
Here are nine things we discovered from Marlon James's interview with Lauren Laverne: 1. He destroyed every copy of his first novel before it was published, and only rediscovered it in his email ...