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Anna Pigeon Episode 8 begins with a body in the river, several dead fish and an expression on the victim’s face that immediately bothers Anna. The dead man is soon identified as Buck Boone, the son of acclaimed photographer Maeve Boone, whose upcoming retrospective has already attracted ugly anonymous threats. What initially looks like a…
HBO Max’s “4 Blocks Zero” feels unusually grounded for a crime drama because its story begins not with an established criminal empire but with immigration paperwork, school frustrations, cramped housing and a family trying to secure the right to remain in Germany. Set in 1990s Berlin, the prequel follows Malik Hamady and his children years…
My Sad Dead never treats Ema’s ability as a puzzle waiting for a scientific solution. Mercedes Moran’s retired doctor has seen and heard the dead for as long as she can remember, and the four episodes gradually reveal that her matter-of-fact attitude comes from decades of experience rather than uncertainty about whether the ghosts exist.…
Julie initially looks like the character My Sad Dead wants viewers to question most. When she arrives in Buenos Aires with her parents, she has already spent years moving between doctors, treatment programs and institutions because she claims to see and communicate with friends nobody else can perceive. Her parents Lidia and Tomas are exhausted…
My Sad Dead is less an ensemble of strangers than one complicated family surrounded by a neighborhood that keeps intruding on its grief. Pablo Larrain and Mariana Enriquez merge characters from several of Enriquez’s stories into the same bloodline, placing Ema at the center as a recently retired doctor whose ability to see the dead…
My Sad Dead begins with a private burden and ends by turning it into a neighborhood-wide experience. Ema has spent most of her life seeing and hearing people who have passed, treating the ability less like a supernatural calling than an exhausting condition she has learned to manage. Her niece Julie shares that connection in…
The Final Problem gives Benjamin Basil the sort of career comeback he never expected. Jose Coronado’s aging Spanish actor is best remembered for playing Sherlock Holmes, but a chance trip to Mallorca places him inside a real mystery when a storm strands thirteen people at the isolated Hotel Auslander on Santa Agueda. What begins with…
The Final Problem arrives on Netflix as the kind of mystery that could easily support another case. Jose Coronado’s Benjamin Basil is a retired actor famous for playing Sherlock Holmes who discovers, rather inconveniently, that years spent pretending to be a detective have left him surprisingly capable of doing the real thing. Martino Rivas’ Francisco…
The Final Problem begins like an old-fashioned locked-room puzzle, but by its fourth episode the mystery has become much more personal than Benjamin Basil expects. Jose Coronado’s fading actor, once famous for playing Sherlock Holmes, finds himself stranded at the Hotel Auslander after a storm cuts off the island of Santa Agueda. When English tourist…
Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2 Episode 2 gives Maisri another vision that initially appears to be about Julia’s infant son, but the details point much farther into the Fraser family’s future. Lord Lovat hears references to roses, a child, the Fraser line and a future crown and naturally assumes the seer is confirming…
Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2 introduces Grace without giving her the kind of grand entrance normally reserved for an important new character. She appears at Castle Leoch as a young woman working for Jocasta Cameron, but Episode 2, “The Veil of Time,” quickly gives her two unusually warm scenes with Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser.…
“S.W.A.T. Exiles” does not give Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson the comfortable homecoming viewers might expect. The new series finds the veteran S.W.A.T. leader two years removed from the job, carrying the consequences of a mission that changed his career and his personal life. Season 1 Episode 1, titled “Clean Entry,” puts Hondo back in uniform, but…
