Netflix’s ‘Love Is Blind: Netherlands’ has already produced five engagements, but the first batch of episodes leaves nearly every relationship with a question hanging over it. Mika and Jurriaan appear to be enjoying one of the smoother retreats, while Mirella and Gino are struggling to match each other’s emotional pace. Jaslynn and Ludo have gone…
Netflix’s ‘Love Is Blind: Netherlands’ has already produced five engagements, but the first batch of episodes leaves nearly every relationship with a question hanging over it. Mika and Jurriaan appear to be enjoying one of the smoother retreats, while Mirella and Gino are struggling to match each other’s emotional pace. Jaslynn and Ludo have gone…
Cathy Ames spends most of East of Eden rejecting the idea that family should determine what she owes another person. She abandons Adam and their newborn twins, remakes herself as Kate in Salinas, and builds a life in which money and information give her the independence she has always wanted. That makes her final decision…
Netflix’s East of Eden tells a sweeping story across generations, beginning with Adam and Charles Trask before shifting its attention toward Adam’s sons, Cal and Aron. By the end of the seven episodes, most of John Steinbeck’s central Trask-family story has reached its natural conclusion, including Cathy’s final chapter, Aron’s fate, Adam’s declining health, and…
Netflix’s The Arena begins with an unusually large reality competition cast: 38 amateur MMA fighters, divided equally between 19 women and 19 men. They arrive with very different backgrounds, ranging from kickboxing and Muay Thai champions to wrestlers, Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialists and athletes who have only recently committed themselves fully to MMA. Ciryl Gane, Cédric…
The relationship between Cal, Aron, and Abra begins with the simplicity of childhood and becomes much more complicated as the Trask twins grow into very different men. Abra initially chooses Aron and imagines marrying him, while Cal watches from the outside and assumes his brother has once again received the kind of love that seems…
Netflix’s East of Eden reaches its finale after decades of rivalry, rejection, love, and resentment within the Trask family. Cathy has become Kate and built a powerful life in Salinas, Adam has spent years raising Cal and Aron after losing the woman he once idealized, and the same struggle between two brothers that shaped Adam…
Netflix’s East of Eden spends considerably more time inside Cathy Ames’ life than earlier screen adaptations of John Steinbeck’s novel. Florence Pugh’s Cathy is still capable of manipulation and terrible choices, but the series also examines how control, humiliation, and her desire for independence shape the woman she eventually becomes. Zoe Kazan has said that…
Season 2 of Paramount+’s ‘Sacrifice’ opens with Daniella Hernandez trying to rebuild after the Jameson club fire while almost every part of her life remains unstable. Blackgammon is under financial pressure, Ruby is still recovering, Daniella’s back injury continues to trouble her, and the mystery surrounding her parents is far from finished. Her relationship with…
Netflix’s ‘Love Is Blind: Netherlands’ takes the familiar dating experiment outside the Netherlands for some of its most important stages. The first season follows 30 Dutch singles as they date without seeing one another, get engaged, and then test their relationships in the real world. Production primarily used locations in Sweden, Zanzibar, and the Netherlands,…
The remote vacation home in M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin is supposed to feel cut off from civilization, leaving Andrew, Eric, and Wen with almost no way of knowing whether the terrifying claims made by their four visitors are actually true. The production achieved that isolation in South Jersey’s Pine Barrens, but the…
Originally titled “L’Arène,” Netflix’s The Arena brings together 38 amateur MMA fighters for a competition overseen by Ciryl Gane, Cédric Doumbè and Benoît Saint-Denis. The fighters enter an enormous Fight Camp where physical challenges, technical tests and cage fights gradually reduce the field, with €100,000 and a professional MMA contract awaiting each eventual winner. Netflix…
Paul Greengrass’ The Uprising takes viewers deep into 14th-century England, moving from rural settlements to crowded city streets as Andrew Garfield’s Ploughman becomes caught up in the Peasants’ Revolt. Yet much of the medieval England seen on screen was created hundreds of miles away from the places where the real uprising unfolded. The Uprising was…
