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American Horror Story: 13 may be bringing back an unusually large collection of familiar faces, but the new season is not being built entirely around nostalgia. While Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts and several other franchise veterans are revisiting characters from earlier installments, the person positioned at the center of the new…
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds closes its fourth season by putting Nyota Uhura at the center of one of the show’s most ambitious temporal mysteries. Episode 10, “Tomorrow’s Enterprise,” begins with a scientific mission involving a white hole, but what looks like another unusual Enterprise assignment gradually becomes a deeply personal story about Uhura, Scotty,…
Netflix’s Habeas Corpus closes its first season with Jonathan‘s case resolved, but the story itself is clearly not finished. Inez Franco succeeds in helping overturn Jonathan’s wrongful conviction, while Marina reveals that she is actually Larissa Linhares and that her mother, Eliane, has been imprisoned because of a case tied directly to Inez’s past. That…
Netflix’s Brazilian legal drama Habeas Corpus begins with a conviction that most of the justice system considers finished. Jonathan, played by Hypólito, has already spent six years in prison when law professor Inez Franco and her students begin looking again at the evidence used against him. What they find turns Jonathan’s case into the central…
Marjorie Estiano leads Netflix’s Habeas Corpus as Inez Franco, a respected law professor whose career has been shaped by both professional success and uncomfortable questions about the justice system. After stepping away from criminal defense work, Inez becomes involved in reviewing questionable convictions with a group of students, forcing her to reconsider cases, choices and…
Netflix’s Habeas Corpus spends its first season asking whether the justice system can correct an injustice after years have already been taken from someone’s life. Marjorie Estiano leads the Brazilian legal drama as Inez Franco, a respected law professor and former criminal lawyer who creates a wrongful-conviction review group with her students. Their first case…
Netflix’s Habeas Corpus rarely treats São Paulo as anonymous background. The Brazilian legal drama follows Inez Franco, played by Marjorie Estiano, a respected law professor and former criminal defense attorney who forms a group of students to revisit a disputed conviction. Any Gabrielly co-stars as Marina, a student whose interest in Inez and the case…
Apple TV’s “Brothers” has an unusual relationship with the truth. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play characters named Matthew and Woody, live versions of their recognizable Hollywood lives and investigate the possibility that they share a biological father. Yet the series is not a recreation of events that actually happened. Apple describes the pair as…
Slow Horses Season 6 Episode 2, titled “Daddy Issues,” begins connecting mysteries that initially appeared separate. Frank Harkness’ return is no longer simply an unwanted intrusion into River Cartwright’s life, while the deaths of former Slow Horses are clearly part of an organized operation. More importantly, Jackson Lamb finally discovers why someone can identify people…
Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 8 finally lets Richmond enjoy some momentum before reminding everyone how quickly a season can change. Follow the Anger opens with the Lady Greyhounds playing their best football yet, turning the belief Alice and Ted have been trying to build into actual results on the pitch. The good run does…
“Last Seen” Episode 4 is appropriately titled “The Truth,” but it does not reveal that truth through a police test or a neat piece of forensic evidence. Instead, the episode spends most of its running time making Ian Ridley look as though his obsession may have taken him too far, only for Jenna Reid to…
Apple TV’s “Last Seen” has spent its opening episodes allowing Ian Ridley’s certainty to race ahead of the evidence. He has believed for years that Maggie could still be alive, and Sarah Reid’s emergency call finally gave that hope a voice. Episode 4, “The Truth,” changes the balance. Ian is no longer simply chasing a…
