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Netflix’s six-part thriller Below turns the quiet fishing community of Snook’s Arm, Newfoundland, into the setting of a mystery that stretches back several decades. Created by Jesse McKeown, the series stars Josh Hartnett as Calvin Penney, a widowed father whose family has spent generations making a living from the sea. When an enormous iceberg appears…
Netflix’s “Inside the Circle,” originally titled “El circulo,” builds its political conspiracy around a friendship that is supposed to be stronger than any secret. Tomas, Amelia, Mario, and Jaime have been close since childhood, but their adult lives place them in very different corners of Mexican society, from journalism and politics to education and private…
“Fall 2: Deadpoint” takes the simple fear-of-heights formula of 2022’s “Fall” and turns it into a story about what happens when grief becomes its own reason to keep chasing danger. This time, the focus moves from Becky Connor to Jax Hunter, the younger sister of Shiloh, whose final climb on the B-67 TV tower became…
Less of a Stranger spends much of its story showing Jan Borysewicz fighting anyone who attempts to decide what his life should look like. His father doubts music can provide him with a future, the political system places limits on artistic freedom, and the music business eventually presents its own demands once Lady Pank becomes…
Netflix’s Who Is Martin Mull? is built around a question that sounds simple until the documentary begins trying to answer it. Martin Mull was recognizable to several generations as a comedian and actor, from Fernwood 2 Night and Clue to Roseanne, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Arrested Development, but those credits only explain part of…
Mike Flanagan’s “Carrie” begins with a story almost everyone thinks they know, then spends eight episodes quietly preparing to take it somewhere Stephen King’s original novel never did. Prime Video’s first television-series adaptation follows Summer H. Howell’s Carrie White from an intensely sheltered childhood into public school, where social media turns an already difficult adolescence…
BBC’s The Reluctant Vampire spends its first season turning a simple identity crisis into an increasingly complicated family secret. Lenny Rush plays Valentine, or Val, a teenager raised as the heir to a vampire family who discovers that his inability to behave like the rest of his relatives has a straightforward explanation: he is actually…
“No One Will Miss Us” spends much of Season 2 asking its characters what they plan to become, but its finale recognizes that choosing a university or career is actually the easier part. Graduation means Alex, Marifer, Tenoch and Daniela are about to lose the routine that allowed their friendship to exist almost automatically. Even…
Verity turns a ghostwriting job into a problem that no finished manuscript can solve. Dakota Johnson plays Lowen Ashleigh, who moves into the home of an incapacitated novelist, Anne Hathaway’s Verity Crawford, and becomes involved with her husband, Jeremy, played by Josh Hartnett. By the closing stretch, Lowen has more than one account of the…
The Thicket begins as a rescue story, but Elliott Lester’s Western gradually becomes something much more somber. Jack Parker sets out to bring his sister Lula home after she is taken by the feared outlaw Cut Throat Bill, eventually joining forces with bounty hunter Reginald Jones, Eustace Howard, Jimmie Sue and others who have their…
The Sisters Grimm Season 2 sends Sabrina and Daphne deeper into Ferryport Landing at the exact moment their original reason for coming there starts pulling them in another direction. A year has passed since their parents disappeared, but every new Everafter mystery keeps drawing the sisters further into the town, its secrets, and the responsibilities…
Seduced by His Lies begins with a problem that seems complicated enough on its own. Terri Thorne returns from an extended overseas work trip and discovers Marcus Keller living inside the townhouse she recently purchased. Marcus insists that he legally bought the same property, apparently making both of them victims of an elaborate real estate…
