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If you haven’t seen the BBC miniseries “State of Play,” stop reading this and watch. It’s one of the most enjoyable and gripping programs ever put on TV. If you can’t get your hands on it, a new American remake, which turns the six-episode series into a 2-hour movie, is pretty good, too.
The plot is still a twisty nerve-wracker, the type of quadruple-crossing paranoiac’s dream that’s too smartly constructed to fail. The screenplay passed through four hands, but all the chefs managed to boil the events down to their essentials without losing too much in the process. It’s a sign of...
