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HBO's "The Undoing" does the incredible: Make us nostalgic for lifestyles of the rich and bothered Rich people problems are so much sexier than poor people's pandemic problems, so let's watch this crazy thing Well, it's finally happened. Maybe this is the quarantine talking . . .  No, yes it's definitely the quarantine . . . but I've reached that point on the extended social distancing spectrum where I've realized how much I've missed  the zany exploits of fictional rich, entitled people. I know! Crazy right? But hear me out:  such characters are the stuff of American dreams . Take Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant's New Yorkers in "The Undoing," products of privileged white tragedy,  David E. Kelley -fantasy edition.   Advertisement: "The Undoing" is a limited series designed to be enjoyed with friends and box wine and cheap finger foods – sorry, canapes in this context, not finger foods. Maybe hors d'oeuvres, but prefer...

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Barbarians’ on Netflix, a German Quasi-Historical Action-Drama Series in Which People Kill and Have Sex With Each Other Barbarians  is a German Netflix series about ancient Germania, where tribes of, um, Germanians weren’t too thrilled to be under the thumb of the Roman empire. Like many shows before it, it has blood and sex and a tenuous grip on history — and probably a built-in audience of people who eat up this kind of stuff like NASCAR tailgaters at a pig roast. Now let’s see if it’ll stick to your ribs. BARBARIANS : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot:  A boy runs through the woods, playfully shouting, “The wolf is coming!” The Gist:  Teutoberg Forest, a coupla centuries ago. Thusnelda (Jeanne Goursaud) is instructed by her father to stop being happy and let him sell her to the chief of another Germanic tribe. Daddy will get five horses and an alliance; she’ll get a lifetime of subservience. Such is the state of feminism in 9 A.D. It’s also a ti...