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Adults Season 2 ends by finally doing what the show has spent two seasons threatening to do: it messes with the carefully balanced friendship group by turning two different friendships into something romantic. Paul Baker and Anton stop pretending there is nothing between them and kiss, while Billie and Samir pull off the finale’s sneakier…
Netflix’s adaptation of Lynn Painter’s bestselling YA romance Better Than the Movies is moving closer to production, with filming expected to take place in Chicago. Beatrice Kitsos and David Iacono have already been cast as Liz Buxbaum and Wes Bennett, the two central characters from Painter’s popular novel. Current production information points to filming beginning…
“The Whisper Man” begins with a place that looks ordinary enough to offer a grieving family a fresh start. Tom Kennedy, a widowed crime writer, moves with his young son Jake after the death of his wife, hoping that a quieter life might help them recover. Instead, Jake disappears, and Tom is forced back into…
“The Dog Stars” gives Ridley Scott a relatively small group of survivors to work with, which is appropriate for a movie about a world where almost everyone is gone. Rather than filling the screen with dozens of heroes and villains, the story concentrates on people who have developed very different ways of surviving the same…
Ridley Scott’s “The Dog Stars” imagines Colorado after civilization has largely disappeared. A devastating pandemic has killed most of the population, leaving pilot Hig, his dog Jasper and the heavily armed Bangley to protect an isolated airfield from anyone who gets too close. Hig still takes his aging Cessna into the sky, partly to scout…
Netflix’s “The Secret Woman” begins with the kind of life its heroine would have little reason to question. Louise Andersen lives with her partner Joachim on the Norwegian island of Hidra, where she runs a small cafe and appears to have found a quiet corner of the world for herself. Then a stranger tells her…
Aureliano Babilonia finally solves the mystery that has followed the Buendias almost since Macondo was founded when he deciphers Melquiades’ parchments in the One Hundred Years of Solitude Grand Finale. The manuscripts contain the complete history and fate of the Buendia family, including events that occurred after Melquiades wrote them and even the moment Aureliano…
The birth of Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano Babilonia’s child finally makes one of the Buendia family’s oldest fears real in the One Hundred Years of Solitude Grand Finale. Yes, Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano Babilonia are related, and much more closely than either of them realizes when their romance begins. Amaranta Ursula is Aureliano’s maternal aunt.…
The search for the 752 finally reaches its answer in Talamasca: The Secret Order Season 1, but almost everything Guy Anatole believed about it was wrong. The 752 is not a secret book. It is Doris herself, whose real name is Emma, Helen’s long-lost twin sister. Doris has an extraordinary memory and was transformed into…
One year after Bill abruptly ended their marriage, Leanne finally admits something she was not ready to accept when the divorce began: Bill may have betrayed her, but their marriage had been falling apart long before his email arrived. The Season 2 episode “Bang Me” takes Leanne back to the exact anniversary of the day…
Leanne Season 2 does not end by having Leanne dramatically choose Andrew, Bill or another man. Instead, the finale, “Bang Me,” brings her story back to the relationship that started everything: her failed marriage to Bill and the question of how much of that failure she is finally willing to understand. The short answer is…
Yes, Sylvie dies in “Beauty in Black” Season 3. Jules shoots Kimmie’s younger sister after finally tracking her down and forcing her to tell him what really happened to his son Glen. The disturbing part is that Sylvie did not kill Glen. She is essentially the witness Jules has spent months searching for, and the…
