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A new British mini-series about a barkeeper and a female stalker is rapidly becoming one of the most popular shows on Netflix. "Baby Reindeer" is about an unsuccessful comedian called Donny who works in a bar and who is stalked by a female guest named Martha (Jessica Gunning). "Baby Reindeer" is the nickname she gives Donny (played by Scottish comedian and author Richard Gadd) as she develops an obsession with him in a story that becomes increasingly dark. It is reportedly based on a true story, with Gadd saying he made the miniseries to process the disturbing experiences he suffered and to ex...
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True crime podcasts are enough of a phenomenon that they’ve become a premise for scripted, fictional TV shows. Following on the heels of “Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu), “Based on a True Story” (Peacock) and “Truth Be Told” (Apple TV+), we can add “Bodkin,” a seven-episode thriller on Netflix about a trio who arrive in the sleepy Irish town of the title to investigate the disappearance of three strangers who went missing 20 years earlier. (If Hollywood is so eager to greenlight shows that reflect our world back to us, why haven’t we seen a bunch about union organizing? But I digress. Tru...
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Blake Crouch has enjoyably adapted his own 2016 novel "Dark Matter" into a nine-episode series for Apple TV+, which aims to be your destination for classy sci-fi. It's got nothing to do with "dark matter" except as Shakespeare might have used the phrase to describe some sinister business — "This dark matter doth shade our bright prospects," something like that. Pseudoscientifically speaking, this is a parallel realities series, with a dose of domestic drama, some secret project shenanigans and a structure that recalls the Odyssey, in that it's the story of a man facing monstrous obstacles and ...
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In 1998, Tom Wolfe published "A Man in Full," a novel about (among other things) Charlie Croker, an Atlanta real estate developer whose business and world fall apart, and Conrad Hensley, a worker at one of Croker's subsidiary businesses whose world also falls apart when he's laid off. Now David E. Kelley has written a television miniseries, premiering this week on Netflix, with similar characters in similar situations in the same setting, but so much is different, lost or added that adaptation hardly seems the right word. "David E. Kelley's Tom Wolfe's 'A Man in Full'" might be closer to the m...
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If fears about “the bomb” permeated life in the mid-20th century, the video game “Fallout” takes that premise to its worst conclusion. In a post-nuclear wasteland, some survivors have been recreating their 1950s-era idyll underground in elaborate bomb shelters called vaults. Those less lucky have been eking out a life on the surface, where it is dusty and brutal, and nasty oddities abound in the form of ghouls, who exist in a liminal space between human and zombie. How the hell did we get here? The Amazon TV adaptation explains by toggling between two timelines: Los Angeles of the 1950s and wh...
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US rock band Bon Jovi are looking back on 40 years of fame this year in a documentary series on Disney+ - but also looking forwards with a new album set for release in June. As the band prepares to mark the 40th anniversary of their debut album, frontman Jon Bon Jovi says the fact that the group from New Jersey achieved their international breakthrough in the 1980s - and are still successful today - is primarily down to the work. "There were certainly more talented guys that you could find in any corner bar," the 62-year-old told dpa in London. "But the work ethic was real. I just had a kind o...
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"Sex and the City" is now one of Netflix's most-watched shows as it settles into its new streaming home. Since the series' April 1 debut on the platform, a whole new audience — many of whom weren't born when the show premiered on HBO in 1998, changing the TV landscape — is discovering it. The comedy has been streaming on Max and on Hulu (through its Live TV plan), but the "Netflix effect" is unmatched. The witty humor, the relatable dating woes and the core friendship that hold "Sex and the City" together make it a timeless treasure, and it's starting to resonate with a new generation. As a Ge...
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What is more psychically exhausting, in fiction and I suppose in life, than the story of the double agent, the mole, the traitor embedded among those he's working against? It's a dramatic theme we return to again and again — Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys got six seasons of "The Americans" out of it a few years back. But as a viewer (and perhaps this is just me), whenever characters go undercover, I want them to get along with, even be liked by, the people they're spying upon, and I'm always disappointed, even upset, when their cover is blown — not for the spies, but for the people whose trust ...
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Disney+ is to begin cracking down on password sharing later this year in an effort to boost sign-ups and revenue for the service. Disney chief executive Bob Iger said in an interview with American network CNBC that the streaming platform would start taking action against the behaviour from June in some countries, and then a "full rollout" in September. Many major streaming services are impacted by password sharing – where users share their log-in details with family and friends not in the same household, enabling them to access content without paying for it – despite it being against platform ...
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In 2019, Prince Andrew sat for a one-on-one with the BBC programme “Newsnight” to discuss his connections with Jeffrey Epstein, who had been found dead in his jail cell three months earlier. The Netflix movie “Scoop” is the story of how the now-infamous interview came about. The TV appearance would prove to be such a public relations disaster that Andrew stepped down from royal duties shortly thereafter. For many viewers, he failed to give a persuasive refutation of the allegations made against him, or to adequately explain his friendship with Epstein, a convicted sex offender who was being he...
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