Category: TV series
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Best women led, women directed things I watched in 2025.
A little disclaimer in case you’re new here. I don’t watch everything. I review things directed by women or with women in the leading roles. With that in mind, I’ll list the things I liked best in movies, TV series, and documentary categories in 2025. Things are listed in the reverse order from when I…
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Down Cemetery Road: mystery, danger, and mayhem
Down Cemetery Road is a mystery about government bad behavior. It’s an innocent bystander plotline with some pretty farfetched story points. Perhaps that’s why I enjoyed it so much and found myself smiling so often.
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Ripple, random connections around love and loss
Ripple tells multiple stories about a group of people who meet in random ways and form a community around love and loss. There are many interesting characters who interconnect in various ways.
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The Abandons – family, love and murder
The Abandons puts Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson on horseback in big hats in a Western drama about family, love, greed, hate, murder, and revenge.
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The Beast in Me, this powerful series captivates
The Beast in Me is the kind of story that will be talked about for many years. It’s a tightly written suspense drama that deals with themes of blame, vengeance, rage, and violence that are part of human nature. It’s a deep examination of those themes in ways that will merit visiting and revisiting by…
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The New Force, pioneering women police
The New Force comes from Sweden and is based on true events. In 1958 an “experiment” letting women into the police force took place in the Klara police district in Stockholm, the most crime-ridden part of the city. The women quickly proved they were capable of the work, and more women were hired after their…
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All Her Fault, emotional and twisty mystery series
All Her Fault is a kidnapping story. Busy working mom Marissa (Sarah Snook) arrives at an address she was given to pick up her 5 year old son from a play date. There are no children there. The woman of the house had no idea who any of the people Marissa expected to find there…
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The Asset, Danish crime drama
The Asset (Legenden) tells a dark story about a woman who wanted to be a police officer but gets pushed into an undercover role with the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET).
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Dinosaur, funny sister drama
Dinosaur, so named because the main character is a paleontologist working with dinosaurs, is a comedy TV series from Scotland. (Hint, close captions will be helpful.) It’s about what happens when two sisters and their relationship are facing changes.