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The Traitors: New Blood begins with a major change to the familiar American version of the competition. Instead of reality stars and celebrities walking into Alan Cumming’s Scottish castle with established reputations, 22 everyday Americans arrive knowing almost nothing about one another. That makes first impressions unusually important in Episode 1, titled A New Dawn…
Among the lawyers, realtors and creators entering The Traitors: New Blood, Abby Lee immediately stands out because of the profession listed beside her name. The 29-year-old contestant from Saint Paul, Minnesota, is an astrophysicist, making her scientific background one of the most unusual in the show’s first all-civilian U.S. cast. For a competition built around…
The Traitors: New Blood has filled Alan Cumming’s castle with people from unusually varied professions, but Joe Vanella arrived with one of the most memorable jobs in the cast. The 44-year-old Long Island native works as a funeral director, a profession he believes has prepared him surprisingly well for a game built around pressure, suspicion…
The murder trial may decide Lizzie Borden’s legal fate, but Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story does not treat her acquittal as the end of her story. The eighth and final episode, “Carnival,” moves beyond the courtroom to explore what freedom actually looks like for a woman who has escaped conviction but cannot escape the legend…
The Traitors: New Blood may have replaced the celebrities with 22 ordinary Americans, but NBC has wisely left one of the franchise’s most important “characters” untouched. Alan Cumming is once again presiding over the game from a sprawling Scottish estate where candlelit rooms, stone corridors and misty Highland scenery make every breakfast conversation and banishment…
Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story does not limit its speculation to the question of who killed Andrew and Abby Borden. The series also reshapes several relationships inside the Borden household, giving characters private motives and secrets that were never established during the original investigation. One of its more surprising additions involves John Morse, Lizzie…
Karen Wheeler is never one of the people Mike wants involved when something strange begins happening in Hawkins. That makes her relatively easy for Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 to keep outside its supernatural adventures, but the character was still present when the animated series began. Alysia Reiner voiced Karen in Season 1, and she…
Steve Harrington was one of the more recognizable supporting characters brought into Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 when the animated series began. His friendship with Dustin already existed by this point in the Stranger Things timeline, giving the show an easy way to bring Hawkins’ resident babysitter into the younger group’s adventures without forcing him…
Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Season 2 brings back most of the Hawkins characters who surrounded the H.I.C. during its first adventure. Hopper, Steve Harrington and Nancy Wheeler all remain part of the animated world as Eleven, Mike, Will and their friends investigate another supernatural threat. One familiar face, however, has quietly disappeared from the…
Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 returns to Hawkins at a point when Joyce Byers has every reason to keep a close eye on her son. Will has only recently escaped the influence of the Mind Flayer, the gate beneath Hawkins Lab has been closed, and the Byers family is still living in Hawkins. Yet when…
Nazlı’s arrival in Not a Stranger initially seems almost accidental. She becomes useful to Funda, bonds naturally with Mavi and gradually finds a place inside a household that desperately needs stability. By the end of Season 1, however, it becomes clear that Nazlı’s investment in the family is far more personal than Funda ever realized.…
Netflix’s Not a Stranger spends much of its first season placing viewers inside Funda’s increasingly uncertain perspective. Her memory becomes unreliable, her behavior begins to worry the people around her, and Nazlı, who initially enters the household as someone Funda trusts, becomes indispensable to the family. The finale changes the meaning of much of what…
