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“Average Joe” spent its first season turning an ordinary Pittsburgh plumber’s life into an increasingly absurd crime nightmare. Season 2 decides Pittsburgh is no longer big enough for Joe Washington’s problems. After another threat connected to his father’s criminal past puts his family in danger, Joe, Leon, Cathy and Touch follow the trail all the…
A teenage prank is supposed to expose an unfaithful boyfriend in “To Catch a Cheater.” Instead, it becomes the beginning of a murder mystery. Kate Watson plays Monica, a mother whose teenage daughter Hannah dies under circumstances that do not make sense to her, even after authorities appear ready to close the case. Monica’s attempts…
“Mutiny” gives Jason Statham another man-against-everyone assignment, but this time the geography steadily closes around him. Statham plays Cole Reed, a former Special Forces operative who witnesses the murder of his billionaire employer and is then framed for the crime. His attempt to uncover who ordered the killing eventually takes him aboard a cargo ship,…
Outer Banks may carry the name of North Carolina’s famous barrier islands, but its final season once again builds Kildare Island somewhere else. Season 5 was filmed primarily around Charleston and South Carolina’s Lowcountry, the production home that has defined the Netflix series since its beginning. The final run also traveled much farther from the…
“The Dating App Killer: The Monica White Story” begins with an everyday decision that gradually becomes terrifying. Monica White, a recently divorced mother played by Lela Rochon, decides she is ready to date again after her son leaves for military school. She meets Anthony Robinson online and initially believes she may have found someone worth…
Netflix’s Love Is Blind: UK returns for Season 3 with another group of singles willing to get engaged before seeing each other, but the experiment is not nearly as British behind the camera as its title suggests. The new season was filmed across Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom, following the multi-country production model used…
“Busboys” takes two men with almost no career momentum and gives them a goal they regard with ridiculous seriousness: becoming waiters. David Spade plays Markie Montgomery opposite Theo Von as Steefen “Steef” Barn, longtime friends stuck cleaning septic systems until they decide the restaurant business offers a path to money, respect and, apparently, a better…
“The Guest Who Never Left” turns the idea of a smart home into something considerably less reassuring. Felisha Terrell plays Anna Stone, the editor-in-chief of a successful news magazine who is expecting her first child with husband Daniel, played by Jason MacDonald. Daniel happens to run an AI-focused home security company, and the couple’s impressive…
Nearly two decades after Mitchie Torres first arrived at Camp Rock, Disney returns to the music camp with a noticeably different landscape. “Camp Rock 3” brings Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas back as Connect 3, whose reunion tour hits a problem when their opening act drops out. Their solution is to return to Camp Rock…
Giving up a child for adoption is a decision Cynthia has spent 15 years learning to live with. In Lifetime’s “The Daughter I Gave Away,” that distance suddenly disappears when she learns that the daughter she never raised has vanished from her adoptive home. Cynthia, played by Romina D’Ugo, refuses to remain a concerned stranger…
“Aussie at Heart” gives its second-chance romance a setting built around the water. Rhiannon Fish stars as Samara Hart, a former attorney who has reinvented herself as an event planner after a professional disaster derailed her legal career. Her newest assignment sounds like exactly the sort of opportunity that could restore her confidence: organize a…
Rather than rebuilding one of the Cold War’s most famous diplomatic meetings on a Hollywood soundstage, “The Brink of War” puts its actors inside the room where history actually happened. Michael Russell Gunn’s political drama revisits the tense 1986 Reykjavik Summit, when U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Iceland to…
