Rocket science is hard enough without adding magic, murder, and pirate treasure to the equation. The Starseekers is wildly imaginative, occasionally overstuffed, and still a pretty fun ride.
Some marriages have red flags. This one had an actual bullet. Freida McFadden's Brain Damage asks what happens when the person hunting you might be the one you trust most.
A perfect Beverly Hills marriage, a dead first wife, and one very suspicious housewife. I thought I knew where The Housewife was going, but this twisty domestic thriller had other plans.
A luxury influencer yacht, a billionaire boss, and a hurricane trapping everyone at sea? The Last Time We Drowned turns curated paradise into a claustrophobic nightmare with better lighting.
Models Inc. was messy, glamorous, wildly overdramatic 1990s soap perfection. Aaron Spelling turned a modeling agency into a runway-adjacent crime scene, and honestly, television was better for it.
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A new Vought Rising teaser takes us back to the early days of Vought, where the costumes are sharper, the secrets are darker, and the supes are already a problem.
Three people were in that car. Only Mackenzie Shirilla got a documentary — Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagane deserved more. What else was left out of The Crash?
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Angel came to Los Angeles to brood, fight vampires, and apparently make some wildly questionable hiring decisions. Rewatching the 1999 pilot now is equal parts nostalgia, chaos, and “girl, please do not go into that...
A Thousand Natural Shocks is a twisty debut thriller where memory is a drug, cults lurk in the shadows, and nothing—not even the past—is what it seems.
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