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Marble Hall Murders begins with a major change in Susan Ryeland’s life. After everything that happened in Moonflower Murders, Susan is no longer living with Andreas in Crete. She has returned to England, moved into a London flat and is considering going back into publishing. Episode 1 does not turn their separation into a dramatic…
Marble Hall Murders Episode 1 brings Susan Ryeland back to England and immediately gives her another manuscript capable of pulling fiction and reality together. This time, Alan Conway is dead, but Atticus Pund is returning through a continuation novel written by struggling author Eliot Crace. Eliot comes with a mystery of his own. His grandmother,…
Vigil Season 3 is not based on one specific true story. Daniel Hodge’s murder, Shen Jia’s disappearance and the international conspiracy surrounding her research are fictional. However, the world surrounding that mystery is deliberately rooted in real politics. Creator Tom Edge chose Svalbard because the Norwegian Arctic archipelago occupies an unusual position internationally. Climate change,…
Zoe Macon’s apparent death becomes one of the biggest clues in Lanterns Episode 4 rather than the end of her story. After leaving John’s motel, Zoe is seemingly killed when a satellite strike destroys her truck, sending Hal and John toward Hector Hammond and away from Rushville’s real secret. John, however, never reacts as though…
Lanterns Episode 4 is called The Weenie because John Stewart uses an old Walt Disney design term to identify the suspicious building hidden inside Will Macon’s ranch. A “weenie” in Disney terminology is a visual landmark deliberately positioned to attract people and guide their attention toward a particular place. John uses Sleeping Beauty Castle at…
Zoe Macon’s relationship with John Stewart begins as manipulation, but Lanterns makes it clear that it does not stay that way. Poorna Jagannathan, who plays Zoe, has explained that getting close to someone who threatens her survival is part of the Manhunter’s strategy, which means John was initially a target rather than an accidental romance.…
Lanterns Episode 4 ends by turning what looked like a solved Manhunter mystery into something much more personal for John Stewart. Hector Hammond admits he is human and names Will Macon as the hidden Manhunter, but Hal Jordan quickly realizes that answer does not fit everything they have seen. The strongest clue is John’s strangely…
Vigil Season 3 Episode 4 picks up directly from Henrik Becken’s suspicious appearance at the end of the previous chapter. Kirsten Longacre has discovered that the missing Russian burner phone belonging to Daniel Hodge is in Henrik’s possession, making the Director of Svalbard the leading suspect in Hodge’s murder. Unfortunately, Kirsten is already heading into…
Aimee Garcia’s arrival as Renata gave Dead City Season 3 one of its most important new characters, with the leader quickly becoming an ally to Maggie and the center of the hospital community trying to build something lasting in Manhattan. That makes the events of Episode 7 particularly significant, as Renata’s sudden death appears to…
Babat is the new captor who takes control of Joe McNamara in Lioness Season 3 Episode 6, Sugar Land, after the Russian-linked side of the kidnapping completes its part of the operation. The episode strongly frames him as part of the Iranian end of the abduction, although nobody explicitly introduces him with a formal Iranian…
Yes, Surviving the Silence: The Roxane Gay Story is based on the true story of acclaimed writer and cultural critic Roxane Gay. The Lifetime movie adapts Gay’s 2017 memoir Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, in which she wrote about surviving sexual violence as a child and the profound effect that trauma had on her…
Lifetime’s Surviving the Silence: The Roxane Gay Story has an unusual challenge for its cast. Instead of simply recreating milestones from writer Roxane Gay’s life, the movie has to portray experiences that Gay herself explored with considerable honesty in Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. The story follows Roxane after an act of sexual violence…
