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Netflix’s “Blood Sacrifice” takes the familiar darkness of Scandinavian crime fiction and drops it into a season when Stockholm barely gets dark at all. Jakob Oftebro stars as Thomas Berg, a respected investigator hunting a serial killer who appears to be deliberately targeting police officers. The case eventually forces Thomas to seek help from Alfred,…
“Average Joe” spent its first season turning an ordinary Pittsburgh plumber’s life into an increasingly absurd crime nightmare. Season 2 decides Pittsburgh is no longer big enough for Joe Washington’s problems. After another threat connected to his father’s criminal past puts his family in danger, Joe, Leon, Cathy and Touch follow the trail all the…
A teenage prank is supposed to expose an unfaithful boyfriend in “To Catch a Cheater.” Instead, it becomes the beginning of a murder mystery. Kate Watson plays Monica, a mother whose teenage daughter Hannah dies under circumstances that do not make sense to her, even after authorities appear ready to close the case. Monica’s attempts…
“Mutiny” gives Jason Statham another man-against-everyone assignment, but this time the geography steadily closes around him. Statham plays Cole Reed, a former Special Forces operative who witnesses the murder of his billionaire employer and is then framed for the crime. His attempt to uncover who ordered the killing eventually takes him aboard a cargo ship,…
Outer Banks may carry the name of North Carolina’s famous barrier islands, but its final season once again builds Kildare Island somewhere else. Season 5 was filmed primarily around Charleston and South Carolina’s Lowcountry, the production home that has defined the Netflix series since its beginning. The final run also traveled much farther from the…
“The Dating App Killer: The Monica White Story” begins with an everyday decision that gradually becomes terrifying. Monica White, a recently divorced mother played by Lela Rochon, decides she is ready to date again after her son leaves for military school. She meets Anthony Robinson online and initially believes she may have found someone worth…
Netflix’s Love Is Blind: UK returns for Season 3 with another group of singles willing to get engaged before seeing each other, but the experiment is not nearly as British behind the camera as its title suggests. The new season was filmed across Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom, following the multi-country production model used…
“Busboys” takes two men with almost no career momentum and gives them a goal they regard with ridiculous seriousness: becoming waiters. David Spade plays Markie Montgomery opposite Theo Von as Steefen “Steef” Barn, longtime friends stuck cleaning septic systems until they decide the restaurant business offers a path to money, respect and, apparently, a better…
“The Guest Who Never Left” turns the idea of a smart home into something considerably less reassuring. Felisha Terrell plays Anna Stone, the editor-in-chief of a successful news magazine who is expecting her first child with husband Daniel, played by Jason MacDonald. Daniel happens to run an AI-focused home security company, and the couple’s impressive…
Nearly two decades after Mitchie Torres first arrived at Camp Rock, Disney returns to the music camp with a noticeably different landscape. “Camp Rock 3” brings Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas back as Connect 3, whose reunion tour hits a problem when their opening act drops out. Their solution is to return to Camp Rock…
Anyone coming into Reacher Season 4 after reading Gone Tomorrow will notice the change almost immediately. Lee Child opens the novel on the New York City subway. Prime Video puts Alan Ritchson’s Reacher on Philadelphia’s Broad Street Line instead. The switch was deliberate. Showrunner Nick Santora has explained that Philadelphia was chosen partly because the…
Giving up a child for adoption is a decision Cynthia has spent 15 years learning to live with. In Lifetime’s “The Daughter I Gave Away,” that distance suddenly disappears when she learns that the daughter she never raised has vanished from her adoptive home. Cynthia, played by Romina D’Ugo, refuses to remain a concerned stranger…
