Shows You Should Be Watching
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Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness is a four episode CGI anime that catches up with Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield in 2006, between the events of the games. Leon investigates a hacking incident at the White House that turns into…
Shawn Ryan's adaptation of Matthew Quirk's novel became Netflix's surprise smash of 2023, and the reason is simple: it is a straight ahead, professionally built conspiracy thriller with no self importance and no dead weight. Gabriel Basso plays Peter Sutherland, a low level FBI agent stuck monitoring an emergency phone line that never rings, until it rings, and he is suddenly protecting Rose Larkin, a tech CEO played by Luciane Buchanan, while uncovering a mole hunt that reaches the White House. Ten episodes, one escalating night of it, and a full second season set in Bangkok.
The Early Word: Netflix is betting big on Steinbeck. Zoe Kazan, whose grandfather Elia Kazan directed the 1955 film, adapts the full novel as a seven episode limited series, and the big selling point is structural: the 1955 movie only covered the book's second half, so the Trask family's founding generations, the Civil War arc, and the full Cathy story have never been filmed. Florence Pugh plays Cathy Ames, literature's most chilling sociopath, with Christopher Abbott as Adam, Mike Faist as Charles, and Hoon Lee as the family's cook and moral center Lee, a role whitewashed out of every previous adaptation.
Mike Flanagan's Poe adaptation: a pharma dynasty collapses one heir at a time while a mysterious woman collects on an old deal.
Netflix’s live action take on the impossible: adapting one of the most beloved animated series ever made. Gordon Cormier leads a mostly excellent young cast through a gorgeously realized world of bending nations, and when it works, firebending on a…
Paul Rudd meets Paul Rudd: a miserable ad man tries an obscure spa treatment and comes home to find a happier, better clone of himself already living his life. The two of them fight over a marriage, a career, and…
Four detectives. Four timelines. One body. To save Britain’s future, they’ll need to solve the murder that altered the course of history first. Stephen Graham stars in this time-hopping crime drama inspired by Si Spencer’s graphic novel. Our take: 7
Since the tragic death of her young son, acclaimed author Aggie Wiggs has receded from public life, unable to write, a ghost of her former self. But she finds an unlikely subject for a new book when the house next…
Perplexing mystery awaits viewers in the new animated-action series, The Hollow, a Slap Happy Cartoons Inc. production. The series opens with three teens, Adam, Kai and Mira, as they awake confused and alone in an underground bunker. Wandering through a…
It begins as a Twin Peaks-flavored mystery about a dead golden boy in a small town with a maple syrup empire. It ends, several transformations later, as one of the most gloriously unhinged things ever aired: cults, alien abductions, superpowers,…