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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

There's no shortage of terrifying technology': how AI became TV drama's new go-to villain

AI is portrayed as a powerful and dangerous tool in modern surveillance and military operations.
#comedy
NYC LGBT
fromThe New Yorker
5 days ago

"Big Mistakes" Is a Crime Show for the Girls and the Gays

Nicky and Morgan Dardano's lives change drastically after a theft leads to their kidnapping by a gangster, forcing them into unexpected criminal activities.
NYC LGBT
fromThe New Yorker
5 days ago

"Big Mistakes" Is a Crime Show for the Girls and the Gays

Nicky and Morgan Dardano's lives change drastically after a theft leads to their kidnapping by a gangster, forcing them into unexpected criminal activities.
Media industry
from24/7 Wall St.
5 days ago

Long-Form vs. Short-Form: The AI Debate That Misses Netflix's Real Strength

Netflix's strong fundamentals and growth prospects make it a compelling investment despite misconceptions about AI competition.
#true-crime
Film
fromThe Independent
6 days ago

Netflix users say same thing about 'essential' true-crime documentary

Netflix's documentary on Moriah Wilson is praised for sensitively portraying her life and the impact of her tragic murder.
Podcast
fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 weeks ago

ABC takes true crime storytelling to new levels with 'Betrayal: Secrets and Lies'

The series 'Betrayal: Secrets and Lies' showcases true stories of deception, including paternity fraud and domestic abuse.
Film
fromThe Independent
6 days ago

Netflix users say same thing about 'essential' true-crime documentary

Netflix's documentary on Moriah Wilson is praised for sensitively portraying her life and the impact of her tragic murder.
Podcast
fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 weeks ago

ABC takes true crime storytelling to new levels with 'Betrayal: Secrets and Lies'

The series 'Betrayal: Secrets and Lies' showcases true stories of deception, including paternity fraud and domestic abuse.
Independent films
fromInverse
6 days ago

15 Years Ago, The Best Spy Thriller You Haven't Seen Gave New Life To The Genre

Hanna is a unique blend of dark fairytale, coming-of-age story, and spy thriller, showcasing Joe Wright's departure from traditional filmmaking.
Writing
fromVulture
5 days ago

It Would Be Crazy If Your Brain Doctor Wrote The Housemaid

Freida McFadden, a best-selling author, is actually Sara Cohen, a doctor who treats brain disorders.
Books
fromSlate Magazine
2 weeks ago

Netflix's New Crime Thriller Is So Deep in Sicko Territory It's Almost Funny

Norwegian author Jo Nesbø's adaptation of his Harry Hole novels struggles to translate complex narratives into a coherent screen format.
Independent films
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

35 Years Later, A Classic Scorsese Thriller Is Getting A Modern TV Reboot

Cape Fear is being adapted into a miniseries by Apple TV, following a pair of public defenders facing a vengeful murderer they once defended.
#thriller
Film
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

Red Rooms makes online poker as thrilling as its serial killer

Red Rooms effectively combines realistic technology with expert tension building, creating an unpredictable thriller that keeps viewers engaged and questioning character motives.
fromBustle
2 months ago
Television

'Vanished' Starts Sweet, Then Drops You Into A Twist-Heavy Mystery You'll Devour

Film
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

Red Rooms makes online poker as thrilling as its serial killer

Red Rooms effectively combines realistic technology with expert tension building, creating an unpredictable thriller that keeps viewers engaged and questioning character motives.
fromBustle
2 months ago
Television

'Vanished' Starts Sweet, Then Drops You Into A Twist-Heavy Mystery You'll Devour

fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The Testaments to Big Mistakes: the seven best shows to stream this week

Via tentative rebel student Agnes Mackenzie, the drama meticulously illustrates the ways disempowered people hoard what little agency they have in Gilead's oppressive environment.
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Television
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

TV's Failing Cure For Middle-Aged Malaise

Imperfect Women exemplifies the decline of the 'messy-mom thriller' genre despite initial viewership success.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

Killing Me Softly and Whidbey explore complex themes of trauma, morality, and systemic failures in healthcare and society.
Television
fromBustle
1 week ago

Exclusive: Meet The New Cast Of 'Million Dollar Secret' Before Its Twisty Return

Million Dollar Secret Season 2 features higher stakes, trickier challenges, and a new cast competing for a $1 million prize.
#streaming
fromConsequence
3 weeks ago
Film

Stream On: Peaky Blinders, Is This Thing On, Pete Holmes

New streaming releases include 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man' on Netflix and 'Rooster' on HBO Max.
fromWIRED
1 month ago
Television

The 10 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month

February's streaming lineup features diverse, swoon-worthy shows across romance, sci-fi, postapocalyptic, fantasy, and documentary genres for varied viewing tastes.
Film
fromConsequence
3 weeks ago

Stream On: Peaky Blinders, Is This Thing On, Pete Holmes

New streaming releases include 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man' on Netflix and 'Rooster' on HBO Max.
Television
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

What Will Happen In Paradise Season 3? Writer Teases A Massive [SPOILERS] Twist

Paradise reveals a complex narrative involving a quantum computer and time manipulation, culminating in significant twists across its seasons.
Television
fromEsquire
2 weeks ago

Why Is Horror TV So Complicated Right Now?

Modern horror films have become overly complicated, straying from classic survival rules established in the 1996 film Scream.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Portobello: how can this TV show about the mafia and a mind-controlled parrot be so wildly dull?

Portobello tells the true story of Enzo Tortora, a TV host falsely accused of Camorra ties, exploring themes of celebrity, politics, and organized crime.
#duffer-brothers
fromInverse
2 weeks ago
Television

Netflix Just Quietly Released The Twistiest Horror Series Of The Year

The Duffer Brothers' new series offers a shocking twist on marriage, blending horror with dark humor and a supernatural element.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago
Television

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen: the Duffer brothers' horror series is absolutely terrifying

The new series by the Duffer brothers combines horror elements with a wedding setting, creating an unsettling atmosphere filled with eerie occurrences.
Television
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

Netflix Just Quietly Released The Twistiest Horror Series Of The Year

The Duffer Brothers' new series offers a shocking twist on marriage, blending horror with dark humor and a supernatural element.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen: the Duffer brothers' horror series is absolutely terrifying

The new series by the Duffer brothers combines horror elements with a wedding setting, creating an unsettling atmosphere filled with eerie occurrences.
Television
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Connor Storrie Is Heating Up Criminal Minds: Evolution

Connor Storrie joins Criminal Minds: Evolution for its fourth season, alongside other notable guest stars.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

Obnoxious jewellery dealer Rodney Manderson has been killed outside the Bowery auction rooms, stabbed through the eye with the Victorian hatpin that his boss, Rose Bowery, has brandished in front of the nation on Bargain Hunt. As she discussed the pin's virtues as a deadly weapon as well as its millinerial uses, the fiercely loyal Rilke decides while feeling grateful to have skipped lunch and trying not to think of jelly to remove it before calling the police.
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Television
fromEsquire
3 weeks ago

Netflix Swears That Its Shows Don't Repeat the Plot Over and Over Again

Netflix executives direct creators to repeat plot points for distracted viewers, though the company denies this practice despite evidence in their own shows.
fromVulture
2 months ago

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Finale Recap: In Which Points Are Made

Everything Bundle has accomplished is substantive and worthy of celebration, but in the course of learning who she can trust and foiling the theft of Dr. Matip's formula, she's lost Jimmy and Loraine, who represented her one remaining connection to Gerry. She's also been forced to reckon with the knowledge that although Lady Caterham loves her, she's never really seen Bundle and her gifts accurately. Worse still, Bundle realizes that she's never really been enough for her mother.
UK politics
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Here Are The Best Detective Games To Check Out

Industry layoffs and studio closures coincide with major game updates, gameplay impressions, character trailers, and recommendations including Steam Detective Fest deals and free PC games.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Value of True Crime

Evolutionary psychology explains true crime fascination as a survival mechanism for identifying threats, yet successful predators still evade detection through deception and social bonding.
Relationships
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Real Reason We're Obsessed With the Series "Tell Me Lies"

Tell Me Lies reveals unresolved attachment wounds through a nostalgic early-2000s college drama, prompting viewers to recognize patterns of desire, denial, and emotional damage.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Amateur YouTube detectives' constant streams put cases in jeopardy: It's clickbait'

On the 10th day of the search for Nancy Guthrie, reporters camped outside of the missing woman's home noticed a strange man strut right up to the front door. It had been more than a week since the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie had disappeared, and authorities had just announced they had a new lead from Ring footage of what looked like a potential subject attempting to tamper with the doorbell camera on the morning of her disappearance.
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Podcast
fromwww.ocregister.com
2 months ago

Michael Connelly says same killer committed Black Dahlia, Zodiac murders

A researcher links the 1947 Black Dahlia murder and the Zodiac killings to one suspect, prompting Michael Connelly's podcast and renewed investigation.
Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

Age of Attraction's 'Promise Room' Is As Creepy As It Sounds

Netflix's Age of Attraction follows singles open to dating people significantly older or younger, with couples exchanging promise rings in a treehouse Promise Room after revealing their ages.
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

The Fictitious Capital of HBO's Industry

In the fourth season of Industry, everyone has a story to sell: a neutered fund or loveless marriage, shamed husbands, a life aimless after retirement, a payment-processing firm hampered by its ties to porn and sex work. These labels seem to indicate mistaken priorities or misplaced trust. But they are just narratives to be refined or redefined. Everything is up for grabs if you tell the right story.
Television
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

What If the Gang from Derry Girls Grew Up to Solve Mysteries?

In the Netflix series, three longtime Belfast friends must revisit their childhood trauma to unravel the mystery of a fourth friend's disappearance- raucous Northern Irish hijinks ensue.
Podcast
#vertical-video
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

Two contemporary novels probe suburban domesticity, revealing secrets, manipulation, and moral ambiguity through slow-burn suspense and darkly comic plotting.
Television
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Nicole Kidman's New Crime Show Is Surprisingly Captivating-and Goes Unexpected Places

Nicole Kidman stars as Kay Scarpetta in Amazon Prime's new series adaptation, blending family drama with forensic investigation as Kay confronts a murder matching a serial killer she caught 25 years ago.
Books
fromVulture
2 months ago

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Recap: Battle Commences

Jimmy and Bundle investigate linked deaths of Gerry and Ronnie, uncovering connections to "Seven Dials" while Bundle's bold detective actions drive the plot forward.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The Guide #233: From Wonder Man to Girl Taken, here's one thing to watch on every streamer

A curated guide recommends lesser-known streaming shows across multiple platforms, featuring niche dramas, classic adaptations, and archived documentaries rather than widely-discussed popular series.
Television
fromBustle
1 month ago

Prime Video's Scarpetta Is Here To Save Your Spring Watchlist

Prime Video's Scarpetta, starring Nicole Kidman as forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, premieres March 11 with all eight episodes, following her investigation into a potentially wrongful conviction from 27 years ago.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Eternally spellbinding': the TV shows that baffle you but you can't get enough of

Catterick, Monkey Dust, The OA, and Mrs Davies deliver surreal, darkly comic, and increasingly bizarre narratives blending crime, dreamlike animation, sci‑fi, and oddball humor.
fromVulture
1 month ago

The 14 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

Melling plays a shy young man, Colin, who meets a hot biker, Ray (Skarsgård); the two sweetly and awkwardly develop a BDSM relationship as Colin starts to grasp on to what he really wants from his life.
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#agatha-christie
fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago
Television

"Agatha Christie's Seven Dials" Will Send Your Snooze Button Into Overdrive | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago
Television

"Agatha Christie's Seven Dials" Will Send Your Snooze Button Into Overdrive | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert

Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I'm a crime writer. Here's why we make the best Traitors contestants

Crime fiction specialists' observational, empathetic, and deceptive-character skills make them natural contestants and formidable analysts on The Traitors.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Tell us your favourite confusing TV show

Submit favourite confusing-but-entertaining TV shows via an encrypted form; responses can be anonymous and data will be used only for the feature.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Vanished review even Kaley Cuoco can't save this desperately daft mystery caper

Kaley Cuoco stars in Vanished as archaeologist Alice, who becomes entangled in mystery and peril while navigating a relationship with Tom in a luxury hotel setting.
Television
fromCN Traveller
2 months ago

Where was Agatha Christie's Seven Dials filmed? Behind the scenes of the lavish Netflix murder mystery

Filming took place at Badminton House and across Bristol, including Barrel House and streets such as Queens Square, All Saints Street and Clare Street.
Television
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Six Satisfying TV Shows You Can Watch in One Sitting

One-season TV can tell a complete story; The Night Of emphasizes the murder’s devastating consequences over finding the killer.
fromScary Mommy
2 months ago

The 12 Best Rewatch Shows On Streaming For Your Next Anxiety Binge

There's so much going on in the world, in our country, and hell, in our own work and family lives. Just because the headlines are straight out of a dystopian novel doesn't mean your kids stopped needing you to help with their homework. When our days are full of so many demands, no wonder we feel hyped up and anxious by the time the kids are in bed.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Watson season two review a Sherlock Holmes spinoff full of naughty wit

Long before that, the biggest drama in the world was House, which was set in a hospital but featured a mercurial genius solving baffling mysteries once the House-Home-Holmes penny dropped, you knew you were watching Sherlock in disguise. Watson is the latest attempt by US network television to keep the Conan Doyle canon firing, and it's a straight cross between House and Elementary.
Television
fromScary Mommy
2 months ago

'Fear Not': Anne Hathaway Set To Star In Chilling New True-Crime Series

You're probably (unfortunately) at least vaguely familiar with some pretty infamous serial killers in the U.S., like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. However, you may never have heard of Stephen Morin, even though his suspected crimes rival both Bundy's and Dahmer's in number. And although none of these pieces of sh*t deserve to be immortalized, what makes Fear Not unique is that it tells Morin's story through the lens of a survivor's lived experience.
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Television
fromScary Mommy
2 months ago

13 Shows That Will Make You Laugh, Even If You Aren't Giving It Your Full Attention

Short, character-driven, 23-minute comedies with self-contained episodes are ideal for casual, low-attention viewing while doing chores or hobbies.
Television
fromInverse
2 months ago

Anya Taylor-Joy Is Leading Apple's Most Exciting New Crime Thriller Series

Anya Taylor-Joy will star in Apple TV's Lucky, a thriller adaptation of Marissa Stapley's novel co-produced by Reese Witherspoon and Jonathan Tropper.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Steal review you long for Sophie Turner to triumph in this wild thriller

Armed criminals use prosthetics to coerce pension-trading staff into executing a 4bn hi-tech trading heist, producing tense twists and a celebrated heroine.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Peaky Blinders The Real Story review how a pop crime sensation became a network-hopping brand

Peaky Blinders achieved cinematic-scale storytelling that transformed a Birmingham working-class period drama into a global, music-fueled cultural phenomenon and enduring network-hopping brand.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

From Stranger Things to Killing Eve: why TV shows should only be one season long

Many contemporary TV series are overextended beyond ideal single-season arcs, diluting original strengths and narrative focus.
fromInverse
2 months ago

Apple's Most Mysterious Sci-Fi Show Is Coming Back Later Than You Think

To everything, there is a season, and for a long time in television history, every show had its own season. Some were fall shows, some were spring shows, and either way, you could count on a brand-new batch of episodes every year. But with the larger budgets and production values of streaming, years between seasons (and no particular rhythm to their releases) has become the norm.
Television
Television
fromEsquire
1 month ago

Is 'The Boroughs' Netflix's Next 'Stranger Things'?

Netflix's new series The Boroughs follows retirees in a retirement community who band together to solve a supernatural mystery, marking the Duffer Brothers' first project since Stranger Things.
Television
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Apple's sci-fi detective show Sugar is coming back in June

Sugar season 2 premieres on June 19th with eight episodes, starring Colin Farrell and featuring several new cast additions.
Television
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

'Tell Me Lies' stars Cat Missal, Branden Cook and Spencer House on that series finale

Tell Me Lies ends with confrontations, exposed secrets, an expulsion, a concealed affair, and a flash-forward to 2015 that concludes the series.
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