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Vigil Season 3 Episode 5 finally reveals what Shen Jia discovered beneath the Arctic ice, but the scientific breakthrough is only half the story. Amy Silva and Kirsten Longacre also discover that the investigation into Daniel Hodge’s murder has been pointing in the wrong direction. Henrik Becken has plenty to answer for, but he is…
Joe McNamara’s kidnapping in Lioness Season 3 initially seems to have a straightforward explanation. Babat and the men holding her have clear connections to Iran, while the brutality of the operation suggests that Joe is being punished for enemies she made during previous CIA missions. Episode 7, Kiss the Girls, complicates that explanation considerably. Once…
Lioness Season 3 Episode 7 finally gives Joe McNamara something she has been fighting for since her abduction: a real chance to get back to her people. Kiss the Girls turns the rescue operation from a string of frustrating near misses into an open confrontation, as the CIA’s disruption of Babat’s escape plan forces his…
Bethany Lopez has spent much of Anna Pigeon’s first season positioned somewhere between the park community and its central drama. Married to ranger Manny Lopez, she is close enough to Anna’s circle to hear what is happening without appearing to have any direct stake in Jeremiah Paulsen’s battles with the park. Episode 6 finally makes…
Anna Pigeon survives the cave in “The Rope,” but getting back to civilization does not immediately make her ordeal easier to understand. Episode 6, “There’s Always a Road,” begins with Anna trying to reconstruct a night in which she was concussed, drugged and deliberately left underground with a dead woman nearby. The evidence she remembers…
Long before OJ Unseen: Exploitation of Evil revived interest in O.J. Simpson’s failed prank show Juiced, the project had already been disrupted from within. Producer Rick Mahr hoped to introduce the series with maximum secrecy, allowing Simpson’s unexpected return to entertainment to provide much of the shock value. Instead, details began circulating before the planned…
One of the most uncomfortable moments in OJ Unseen: Exploitation of Evil has little to do with the hidden-camera pranks that brought O.J. Simpson back in front of a television crew. During the making of Juiced, Simpson’s longtime girlfriend Christie Prody appears on set, and members of the production remember noticing bruises on her arms.…
The Perfect Lie spends seven episodes exposing the secrets holding its affluent Dinner Club together, and by the finale, several of those lies have finally collapsed. Evert’s death has an explanation, Karen’s affair is no longer hidden, and the financial crimes surrounding Simon and Patricia have come into the open. Yet the series saves one…
Netflix’s The Perfect Lie spends most of its season dismantling the comfortable image surrounding the Dinner Club. Karen enters the group believing she has found the kind of wealthy, close-knit circle that might finally make her new town feel like home, only to discover that almost every marriage and friendship is being held together by…
Call My Agent! spent years looking finished. ASK closed its doors at the end of Season 4, the agents scattered into different careers, and creator Fanny Herrero moved on to other projects. Then Netflix brought almost everyone back for Call My Agent! The Movie, set five years after the agency’s collapse and built around Andréa’s…
Lioness Season 3 brings Ian Bohen into Taylor Sheridan’s espionage drama as Grady, a Delta Force operator whose military background immediately places him alongside some of the show’s most experienced fighters. Paramount+ officially describes Grady as a by-the-book operator, primary K9 handler and soldier trained in battlefield tactics, making him much more than a temporary…
HBO’s A Killer Story arrives with the kind of murder case that seems almost designed for a true crime series. A couple is found shot to death in their bedroom, the prime suspect lives hundreds of miles away, there is no DNA or murder weapon tying her to the scene, and the legal battle eventually…
