Television review: AMC takes a stately approach with 'Turn'

The Revolutionary War-based 'Turn' on AMC is an old-fashioned historical action drama. Jamie Bell stars as Abe Woodhull of the Culper spy ring.Slowly they return, the clean-shaven, square-jawed heroes of yore, displaced for so many years now by their darker, more intricately conflicted brethren — the detectives with one foot on either side of the law, the pill-popping acerbic doctors and philandering, power-mad family men. The broadcast networks pivoted first; the leads of shows like NBC's "Gr...