MobLand Season 2 Episode 4, “Blank Curtain,” begins with the Harrigans trying to hide the damage Frankie Cooper left behind and ends with Conrad deciding that hiding is no longer an option. Harry manages the police investigation into the yard explosion, discovers that his corrupt contact Finch is about to be exposed, and learns the…
MobLand Season 2 Episode 4, “Blank Curtain,” begins with the Harrigans trying to hide the damage Frankie Cooper left behind and ends with Conrad deciding that hiding is no longer an option. Harry manages the police investigation into the yard explosion, discovers that his corrupt contact Finch is about to be exposed, and learns the…
Tosca Musk’s romantic drama “Afterburn Aftershock: Closed Door” brings together corporate ambition, family expectations, and an unfinished love story that refuses to remain in the past. Based on Sylvia Day’s novel “Afterburn/Aftershock,” the 2017 Passionflix film stars Caitlin Leahy as Gianna “Gia” Rossi, an ambitious businesswoman who has worked her way into a promising career…
Netflix’s Below brings an extraordinary mystery to the isolated fishing communities of Newfoundland, where generations of families have depended on the Atlantic Ocean for their livelihoods. Created by Jesse McKeown, the six-part thriller follows Calvin Penney (Josh Hartnett), a widowed fisherman struggling to preserve his hometown as an unusual discovery in the harbor disrupts everyday…
Netflix’s Below concludes its six-episode run with an unusual combination of resolution and uncertainty. Created by Jesse McKeown, the Newfoundland-set thriller follows Calvin Penney (Josh Hartnett), a fisherman whose efforts to protect his family bring him into contact with an enormous sea creature and uncover troubling secrets about his community. By the final episode, Calvin…
Netflix’s six-part thriller Below turns the quiet fishing community of Snook’s Arm, Newfoundland, into the setting of a mystery that stretches back several decades. Created by Jesse McKeown, the series stars Josh Hartnett as Calvin Penney, a widowed father whose family has spent generations making a living from the sea. When an enormous iceberg appears…
ABC’s ‘Scrubs’ has always been particularly good at finding the uncomfortable truths hiding behind everyday hospital chaos. Its revived second season continues that tradition with Episode 3, titled “My Ex’s Ex,” which brings Scott Foley’s Sean Kelly back into Elliot Reid’s life at a time when she has finally started enjoying her independence. J.D., meanwhile,…
CBS’s “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” gives Connor McAllister an unexpected legal problem in the Season 3 premiere, “Feminine Wiles and Some Tire Thing in Lubbock.” Connor, played by Dougie Baldwin, has spent much of the series pursuing his musical interests while struggling to meet the expectations of his parents, Jim and Audrey McAllister. His…
MobLand Season 2 Episode 4, “Blank Curtain,” begins with the Harrigans trying to hide the damage Frankie Cooper left behind and ends with Conrad deciding that hiding is no longer an option. Harry manages the police investigation into the yard explosion, discovers that his corrupt contact Finch is about to be exposed, and learns the…
Love of Your Life follows Maya through almost a decade of romance, grief and reinvention, and director Rachel Morrison makes the changing places around her part of that journey. Margaret Qualley leads the Amazon MGM Studios drama as Maya, a Boston emergency room nurse whose chance meeting with Charlie, played by Gabriel Basso, opens her…
Signora Volpe has always made its Italian setting feel like more than attractive scenery. Emilia Fox stars as Sylvia Fox, a former British intelligence officer who arrives in Italy for her niece’s wedding and gradually trades London for a quieter life in Umbria. Quiet, however, proves relative. Missing people, old secrets and suspicious deaths repeatedly…
CBS’s Cupertino takes its name from one of the most famous cities in Silicon Valley, but the legal drama was largely created on the opposite side of the country. Mike Colter stars as Michael Price, a lawyer who turns against the technology industry after being denied the stock options he believes he is owed. Rachel…
Rob Savage’s Other Mommy turns an ordinary family home into the center of a deeply unsettling supernatural story. Jessica Chastain plays Ursula as well as the entity that takes on her appearance, while Arabella Olivia Clark stars as eight-year-old Bela, the child who begins communicating with the figure she calls Other Mommy. Jay Duplass plays…
