Prurient-feeling series adds little new to the story
Netflix surely gets plenty of mileage from its true crime content. This ranges from the salacious, such as Ryan Murphy’s Dahmer, to the procedural, for instance the Indian production House of Secrets.
Single, middle-aged and riding an emotional rollercoaster with grace
When it started its run on HBO in 1998, Darren Star’s Sex and the City truly broke ground.
She spent season one in a death loop, now she’s going back … literally
Season one of Russian Doll was a dark comic tour de force. Co-creator (with Amy Poehler) Natasha Lyonne stars as Nadia, a brash, hard-drinking New Yorker cursed to relive her 36th birthday party over and over.
A world where the fate of men lies on a missing eyelash
The premise of Operation Mincemeat seems ludicrous. Hoping to make Hitler believe the Allies are about to launch a major offensive in Greece rather than Sicily, a dead body containing misleading plans is off-loaded from a submarine and left to wash ashore in Spain.
Ticking clock of tension sustains a captivating escape narrative throughout Maid
The Netflix series Maid gets deep into the weeds of an emotionally abusive relationship and its fallout.
Worth explores the ways to value human life
Sara Colangelo’s Worth explores the legal and emotional minefield that emerged after 9/11.
