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“The Sex Lives of College Girls” has spent three seasons following Kimberly, Bela, Whitney and their expanding circle of friends through dorm drama, disastrous hookups, academic pressure and the occasional reminder that somebody at Essex College is supposed to be studying. Created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble, the comedy presents Essex as an elite…
“Blue Murder Motel” gives retirement a rather poor success rate. Vanessa “Vinny” Coleman and her husband Peter “Cole” Coleman leave their careers as Australian police detectives behind and move across the Tasman Sea to run a small seaside motel in New Zealand. They have barely settled into their new life when a guest is found…
“Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” takes Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s true-crime anthology back to 1892 and one of America’s most enduring murder mysteries. Ella Beatty plays Lizzie Borden, who was tried and acquitted of killing her father Andrew and stepmother Abby in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. Charlie Hunnam portrays Andrew, Rebecca Hall plays…
Although Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black takes place in Chicago, the Netflix drama has always had a strong connection to Atlanta, and Season 3 continues that unusual two-city production story. Production information for Season 3 lists Atlanta, Georgia, and Chicago, Illinois as filming locations, with production beginning in December 2025. Atlanta remains particularly important because…
Netflix’s “Blood Sacrifice” takes the familiar darkness of Scandinavian crime fiction and drops it into a season when Stockholm barely gets dark at all. Jakob Oftebro stars as Thomas Berg, a respected investigator hunting a serial killer who appears to be deliberately targeting police officers. The case eventually forces Thomas to seek help from Alfred,…
“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…
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…
Umthetho takes a familiar family conflict and places it inside one of the most unforgiving environments imaginable. Nqobile Nunu Khumalo stars as Mbali Dlamini, an idealistic public prosecutor whose belief in the justice system is challenged when she discovers that her older brother Moses, played by Tony Kgoroge, is alive and running a powerful criminal…
Netflix’s My Brilliant Career returns to Miles Franklin’s celebrated story without trying to recreate Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 film shot for shot. Developed and written by Liz Doran, the six-part series follows Sybylla Melvyn, a fiercely independent young woman living in Australia around the turn of the 20th century. Sybylla wants to become a writer, even…
HBO’s Lanterns takes one of DC’s most cosmic concepts and deliberately brings it down to Earth. Instead of beginning with enormous intergalactic battles, the eight-episode series pairs veteran Green Lantern Hal Jordan with newly recruited John Stewart and drops them into an investigation surrounding a murder in America’s heartland. Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre lead…
By the time Jackie Howard returns to Silver Falls in Season 3, the Colorado town no longer feels like the refuge she entered after losing her family. It has become the place where she rebuilt herself, complicated two brothers’ lives and found a community she may not be ready to leave. The season resumes after…
Macondo was born as an act of imagination, but the second half of One Hundred Years of Solitude asks what happens when the outside world finally reaches it. The railway brings commerce and strangers. Fernanda del Carpio introduces a colder order into the Buendía home. The banana company promises prosperity, then reveals the violence beneath…
