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Bobby Cannavale Netflix The Watcher
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The Watcher is a Tired, Unoriginal Rehash of Better Ryan Murphy Horror Shows
The Watcher is more than just a disturbing show. Created by Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy, the latter famous for shows like American Horror Story and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, is inspired by a real-life cold case.…
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The Girl From Plainville Humanizes the Subjects of a Complex Tragedy, Buoyed by a Fantastic Lead Performance
The Girl From Plainville is different from its contemporaries dabbling in true stories: both the victim and the culprit involved have plenty of flaws, and it’s not entirely clear who’s the most responsible for what happened that fateful night on…
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The Dropout Dramatizes the Rise and Fall of an Ambitious Startup Founder Who Conned Her Investors (and Thousands of Patients) for Years
The Dropout is just one of three different shows about startup founders and their demise out right now. It’s also part of a larger trend of dramatization of real stories that are seen in other shows such as Inventing Anna,…
Zach Gilford Robert Longstreet Henry Thomas Kristin Lehman Annabeth Gish Igby Rigney Matt Biedel Netflix Midnight Mass
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Midnight Mass is a Beautiful (and Terrifying) Take on a Different Kind of Horror
Midnight Mass is Mike Flanagan’s (The Haunting anthology series, Doctor Sleep) latest horror offering, this time delving into religious horror. Flanagan has said that this is his most personal project yet, drawing from his own Catholic upbringing and how he…
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The Queen’s Gambit Weaves an Engaging Narrative around a Coming of Age Tale of a Chess Prodigy in the Sixties
The Queen’s Gambit starts with a young woman in Paris rising out of a bathtub in her hotel room, messily getting dressed and swallowing a few pills. She hurries downstairs to join a chess match with the current world champion.…
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