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Lioness Season 3 leaves almost every major character with unfinished business. Joe McNamara has survived the operation against her but returns to an empty home, Cruz Manuelos is pulled back toward a conflict rooted in her first Lioness mission, and the finale brings Aaliyah Amrohi back into the larger story. Paramount+ has not officially renewed…
The Gilded Age Season 4 is bringing several new faces into its already sprawling New York society, but Adrienne Warren’s arrival is particularly interesting because her character is tied directly to Peggy Scott. Warren will play Ava, a previously unseen member of Peggy’s family who enters the story as Peggy’s relationship with Dr. William Kirkland…
Netflix’s Stolen Heartbeats depends heavily on relationships because its short episodes leave little room for slow character introductions. Anabel’s medical crisis quickly connects a nurse who hears unexplained voices, a married doctor, a betrayed half-sister and a family hiding dangerous financial secrets. The organ-trafficking plot becomes increasingly complicated, but the emotional structure stays easy to…
Antonio Banderas’ Chef is exactly the kind of person a young Anthony Bourdain seems destined to meet in Tony: demanding, worldly, unimpressed by swagger and serious about the discipline required to survive a professional kitchen. That makes him feel like one of the movie’s most obviously biographical characters. Chef does have a real-life foundation, but…
Netflix’s East of Eden is built around a family story that refuses to remain within one generation. Zoe Kazan’s adaptation begins with Cathy Ames and brothers Adam and Charles Trask, then carries the consequences of their choices forward into the lives of Adam’s sons Cal and Aron. Florence Pugh, Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist drive…
No One Leaves keeps its cast intentionally compact because almost the entire story depends on how a handful of people behave during one uncomfortable evening. Meredith arrives at a neighboring farm expecting dinner with someone she already knows, only to become increasingly focused on the young woman introduced as the neighbor’s niece. Nicole Dionne and…
Pumpkin Regatta Romance is built around two families rather than simply two romantic leads. Nadine Brooks and Ethan King have enough shared history to understand that their fathers’ long-running disagreement is affecting the entire community, while reviving the town’s Pumpkin Regatta gives them a reason to work together. Mishael Morgan and Corey Sevier lead the…
Unabomber is less interested in presenting Ted Kaczynski’s life as one continuous biography than in putting two versions of him beside each other. Jacob Tremblay plays the teenage Harvard prodigy, while Michael Laurence appears as the older man being sought decades later. Between those timelines are Russell Crowe’s Professor Henry Murray, Annabelle Wallis’ Christiana Morgan…
A Different World returns to Hillman College with the difficult task of introducing a new class without making the sequel feel like an extended reunion special. Netflix’s continuation solves that problem by putting Deborah Wayne, the youngest daughter of Whitley Gilbert and Dwayne Wayne, at the center of campus life while surrounding her with students…
Prime Video’s The Love Hypothesis arrives with one of the more recognizable setups in contemporary romance fiction: an ambitious scientist, an intimidating professor and a fake relationship that proves much harder to control than either of them expects. Claire Scanlon’s adaptation of Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling novel puts Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman at the center,…
NBC’s Line of Fire may be fictional, but the world surrounding the Hollingsworth family comes from more real-life experience than viewers might initially expect. Creator Joshua Safran drew the central idea from a family he knew whose members worked for the Secret Service, while executive producer Jenna Bush Hager brought firsthand knowledge of what it…
Sole Survivor of Flight 119 is built around two women experiencing the same aviation emergency from completely different positions. Sarah Wayne Callies carries the wilderness side of the story as Lisa Foster, while Joy Bryant plays Rebecca Till, an airline executive who narrowly misses boarding the flight and becomes involved with the families waiting for…
