Joel Kinnaman

Esme Creed-Miles in Hanna

Review: Hanna, the final season

Hanna finishes up its exciting and suspense-filled run with a 6 episode third season on Prime Video. This series has been a top-notch, edge-of-your-seat thriller from start to finish. The ending was not so much happy as inevitable.

Margot Robbie in The Suicide Squad

The Suicide Squad, explosive fun

The Suicide Squad has been reviewed everywhere as a brilliant, bloody, action extravaganza. It was the “bloody” part that made me almost not watch it. It was the Margot Robbie part that made me watch it. I actually loved it and I love that you can see it on HBO Max without any extra charge beyond your subscription. There are …

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Noomi Rapace in The Secrets We Keep

The Secrets We Keep looks at enduring trauma

The Secrets We Keep is a drama about the aftermath of trauma endured during World War II. Maja (Noomi Rapace) lives a quiet life in an American town. One day she sees the man she is sure tortured and raped her near the end of the war. The film is streaming on Hulu and can be rented on Prime Video.

Sonya Walger, Sarah Jones, Cass Buggé, Krys Marshall, and Jodi Balfour in For All Mankind

For All Mankind, season 1, presents an alt version of the space race

For All Mankind brings science fiction to an alternate version of history and the space race. In this series on Apple TV+, the Soviets won the race to the moon. The fallout from that caused much of the action in the space agency, NASA, in the years following.

Anthony Mackie and Simone Missick in Altered Carbon

Review: Altered Carbon, season 2

Altered Carbon, season 2, puts Takeshi Kovacs 300 years in the future on a planet run by a money grubbing President. As in season 1, it’s a complex sci-fi drama with many characters’ stories interwoven.

Esme Creed-Miles in Hanna

Review: Hanna

Hanna, the 8 episode series on Amazon, was based on the 2011 thriller also named Hanna. It isn’t a remake, but an addition and extension. It’s very good. There are some spoilers ahead.

Marta Nieradkiewicz in Ultraviolet

Review: Ultraviolet, season 1

The Polish mystery series Ultraviolet is on Netflix. It features a group of internet savvy private citizens who call themselves Ultraviolet and who get involved in police work.

Martha Higareda and Joel Kinnaman in Altered Carbon

Review: Altered Carbon

Altered Carbon is a science fiction series set in a technologically advanced future where people with money and power could choose to never die. That was the central thesis and conflict in the 10 part series from Netflix. The series touched on many other themes, but superficially. I thought the series tried to do too much.

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