Category: TV series
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The Crowded Room teems with personality
The Crowded Room is hard to talk about without giving away the secret it tries to hide for the first five of its ten episodes. I can tell you that it’s a fascinating, complicated psychological drama and well worth watching. Tom Holland is brilliant in this, and so is Amanda Seyfried. With that said, I…
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Caught, yet another Harlan Coben mystery series
Caught is another in Netflix seemingly endless supply of mystery series derived from the novels of Harlan Coben. This one is set in a small city in Patagonia, Argentina.
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Ransom Canyon review, a soapy contemporary Western
Ransom Canyon brings forth a whole array of characters to love and hate in this soapy drama about a group of ranching families living in Texas. Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly play the lead characters.
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Recipes for Love and Murder, season 2 review
Recipes for Love and Murder, season 2, moves forward with the story of Tannie Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy) and her new life in Eden, South Africa. She gives advice in the local newspaper, creates beautiful food, and helps solve some new murders.
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Fallen review, a dark fantasy series
Fallen is a suspenseful and mysterious fantasy series. It mostly takes place in an isolated rehabilitation facility called Sword and Cross that sits atop a mountain. It’s not your usual rehab, but more of a place that seems to defy time and death while keeping away a swarm of malevolent beings referred to as outcasts.
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North of North review, POV Inuit women
North of North is a funny and compelling tale about an Inuk woman in a small village in far northern Canada. It is a woman’s story, written and directed by women, and starring Anna Lambe, who was actually born in Nunavut and is an Inuk actor.
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Dying for Sex review, lots of sex but only one death
Dying for Sex stars Michelle Williams as Molly, a woman dying of cancer. Her response to the news that she is terminal is to finally throw off every sexual restraint and try to find sexual satisfaction at long last with someone – anyone – who can give her an orgasm.
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The White Lotus, spoiler free season 3 review
The White Lotus, season 3, once again entices viewers with a murder in the first episode that isn’t revealed until the finale, a set of rich vacationers at a resort, a group of locals to keep things grounded, and a beautiful location. This season is set in Thailand.
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The Lady’s Companion, period comedy from Spain
The Lady’s Companion (Manual para señoritas) is a little bit Bridgerton, a little bit Jane the Virgin, a little bit Fleabag, and a little bit plain old romcom. Set in Madrid in the 1880s in an upper class world where young ladies had companions who chaperoned their every interaction with the opposite sex, we follow…
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Survival of the Thickest, season 2, good jokes with sharp points
Survival of the Thickest, season 2, brings another 8 episodes celebrating plus sized beauty and sexiness, queer beauty and sexiness, the beauty of friendship, and the beauty of creativity. It does it all with pointed one-liners, clever barbs and infectious joy.