Sorry For Your Loss(Sept.18 2018)

Creator: Kit Steinkellner
Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Kelly Marie Tran, Janet McTeer,
Mamoudou Athie, Jovan Adepo.
First four episodes-available. Half-hour drama.
Two per week. Total 10 episodes)

Set in suburban Los Angeles, the series opens three months
after the sudden death of her husband, Matt (Mamoudou Athie).
Leigh (Elizabeth Olsen) has returned home to live with her mother,
Amy (Janet McTeer), and her sister, Jules (Kelly Marie Tran)
Both works at a fitness studio called Beautiful Beast.

As Leigh goes through attending group therapy, she’s constantly
reminded of her life with Matt, as she tries to figure out how to
live without him. And there are also questions of how well Leigh
actually knew her husband.

In flashback, we see her and Matt at high and low points in their
relationship. Matt aspired to be a comic artist, Leigh encouraged him but...

"Sorry for Your Loss" keeps the cause of Matt’s death a mystery.
It follows the small details of the grieving process and where grief
represents different things to different people.

I’ve seen four episodes, it hits most of the notes. The well constructed
series knows what kind of story it’s telling and how to tell it well.

Highly doubt they'll able to retain the original tone of the comic books. Like Preacher it's ultra violent and highly politically incorrect. At least 2 episodes watch for me..

I'm all in on this one...Park Chan Wook....say no more!

Marvel's #IronFist has officially been canceled by Netflix

Most Marvel-Netflix shows are quite bad. Good time for
Netflix to start cleaning Marvel stuff.
Now that they’ll be competing directly with Disney’s online service.
There is no future keeping Disney properties even though
Disney will allow the licensing deal with Netflix to expire.

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Any Stranger Things fans here? Heard that Season 3 is coming next year!

The Cry(UK)
4 episodes(all available)-30 Sep.2018.weekly-21.oct.2018
Stars: Jenna Coleman, Ewen Leslie, Asher Keddie.

Based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Helen FitzGerald

First-time mother Joanna(Jenna Coleman), travels on a long
flight to Melbourne with husband Alistair (Ewen Leslie)
and new-born son Noah who can't stop crying, arousing the anger of
fellow flyers and drawing complaints. By the time she landed,
she was a mess.

Both were traveling to see Alistair’s mother,
but also to try to reclaim his teenage daughter from a
previous relationship. (She found her husband in bed with
Joanna). Joanna didn’t know he was married.

Once in Australia, Alistair went into a supermarket to grab
some things. Joanna in a daze decided to buy some
things too. When they got back to the car… the baby
disappears from their car. To pin it on her and watch her
fall apart thinking she’d killed her baby?

She wanted a conviction. She got it.
Unlabeled medicine for Noah? Something to think about.
I quite enjoyed it otherwise.it was okay. Her performance, strong.

This is looking very promising!

The Little Drummer Girl (UK-2018)
Premiere October 28th-six-episode-weekly
Director - Park Chan-Wook
Stars - Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth),
Alexander Skarsgard and Michael Shannon.

Based on the 1983 John Le Carré spy novel of the same name.
Set in the late 1970s in central Europe during the Israeli-Palestine
conflict. The Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes still fresh
in the memory.

A bomb exploded in the house of an Israeli attache in a diplomatic
residential area, West Germany. Missing him but killing his eight-year-old son.
The bomb was planted by a young woman, a network cells operated
by the Palestinian, Khalil.

Israeli spymaster Martin Kurtz (Michael Shannon) has the group insights and
is gambling on the long game that he hopes of bringing down a wider network.

Charlie (Florence Pugh), a young actress living in London fringe theater.
A mysterious benefactor invites Charlie's theater company to Greece for a charity
performance, where she later met Becker(Alexander Skarsgard)
The chemistry between Charlie and Becker is tense.

At the end of the 1st episode, it becomes clear of Becker's intention when
he delivers Charlie to Kurtz. A role she never knew she would have to prepare for,
a dangerous game of cat and mouse in the world of espionage.

Homecoming (2018)
Premieres- November 2 (10 half-hour episodes-all available)
Director- Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot)
Written - Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg.
Stars: Julia Roberts, Bobby Cannavale,
Stephan James, Shea Whigham.

Adapted from Horowitz and Bloomberg’s 2016 podcast of the same name.
Heidi Bergman (Julia Roberts) has just started work as a counselor at the
Homecoming center, a privately run treatment facility somewhere in
Florida that is supposed to help young military vets reintegrate into civilian
life after their time of service.

The series unfolds two timelines. In the present timeline and a few years later,
she’s waitressing and living with her mother, Ellen(Sissy Spacek).

She is pursued by a Department of Defense Department auditor,
Thomas Carrasco (Shea Whigham), who is investigating a complaint filed by
Walter’s mom (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) four years ago that triggers present day
Heidi's confusion. Questions about her former employer.

Each episode is perfectly paced, the pleasure of it is in fantastic
Julia Roberts performance.
It climaxes from Episodes 8 where everything starts to make more sense.
A rare position of not being an hour-long drama for a perfect quick binge.



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Origin (2018)
Premieres- November 14 (10-episodes-All available)
Director - Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast - Sen Mitsuji, Natalia Tena, Tom Felton, Madalyn Horcher,
Nina Wadia, Adelayo Adedayo, Johannes Haukur Johannesson.

Set in distant future a company called the Siren Corporation with
the transport ship "Origin" set bound to a distant and habitable planet,
called Thea. Five light-years from Earth.
The characters on board were all told their pasts would be erased
should they choose to help colonize a new world.

Beginning the series with Shun’s(Sen Mitsuji)
story(a former Yakuza gangster) is a good decision because it
establishes the concept of why people would elect to leave.

Something has gone wrong when one of the passengers wakes up
abruptly in shock. They were not supposed to wake up from stasis,
not until they reach the planet. Everyone else aboard has mysteriously
abandoned ship. Mystery questions of why this group of travelers was left behind.

Origin doesn't feel original. Not as solid as "Impulse".
There are parts of that work, and there are parts that don’t.
There are narrative bloat and unrelenting violence.
But still worth a binge for audience in search of sci-fi fix.

I am not a huge lover of the movies as I do not have much time for it. But some movies and TV series have huge attraction. I have seen the "The Walking Dead" series and I found it really amazing. I never missed a single episode of it.

My Brilliant Friend- (2018-US & UK)
Debuts- November 18 and 19-(2 episodes-Available)
Limited series.Eight-episodes.
Two episodes a week. Through December 10.
Cast: Elisa Del Genio, Margherita Mazzucco,
Ludovica Nasti, Gaia Girace.
Language-Italian with English subtitles

Adapted from the bestselling book by Elena Ferrante.
This is the story of two girls growing up in a lower-class
neighborhood where working people struggle to get by
on the outskirts of 1950s Naples.

The series opens in the present day as Elena, now in her 60s
discovering that her old friend Lila is missing.
She starts to write the story of their friendship sending us back
to the shabby streets where the pair grew up.

Elena or Lenu-she often called(Elisa Del Genio as a child and
Margherita Mazzucco as teen) is quieter, smart, reserved and studious.
Her mother thinks she should be done with all that book-learning stuff
but her father thought otherwise.

Her friend Lila (Ludovica Nasti as a child and Gaia Girace as teen)
a shoemaker’s daughter, who is the “brilliant” friend of the title.
She is gifted, fearless, rebellious, street-smart, and masters whatever
task she sets her mind.
She's only 11 when her father has decided her education is done
with and thinks it's time for her to start working in his shop.

We can also know from the very first 2 episodes of the series
that Elena will grow up into someone whose life has some
degree of comfort, while Lila does not seem so.

It is all about looking back and looking ahead as Elena
begins the long process of bringing up every memory she has of Lila.

Between them there is love and there is rivalry. And it is timeless.
First 2 episodes got me intrigued, can’t wait for next week.

Escape at Dannemora( US -2018)
Premieres-November 18 (4 available)
Limited series-weekly- seven episodes.
Director - Ben Stiller
Cast - Benicio Del Toro(Sicario: Day of the Soldado),
Patricia Arquette(Boyhood) ,Paul Dano,David Morse.

Based on the 2015 manhunt when two convicted murderers
made a daring escape from Clinton Correctional Facility
in upstate New York with the help of a prison employee.

The episode opens with Inspector General Catherine
Leahy Scott (Bonnie Hunt) interviewing Tilly(Patricia Arquette).
"Escape at Dannemora” is told in flashback.

Richard Matt (Benicio Del Toro) is a big man on the cell
block. He is quiet with an artistic streak.
He trades paintings with guard Gene Palmer (David Morse)
that help maintains his position there.
He is also the mastermind and let other people do
his dirty work.

David Sweat (Paul Dano) occupies the cell next door next to
his.

Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell, a married female prison
tailor-shop supervisor.
A bored housewife whose itch for a little attention
and excitement that got out of hand. Both men have sex
with her, both see her as their ticket out.
They find Tilly's weaknesses and manipulate her.

Not groundbreaking but excellent performances from
the three lead actors especially Patricia Arquette.
Her performances are so real and raw.
Almost unrecognizable. This miniseries belongs to her.





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Les Misérables (UK-2018)
Premiered- 30 December-6 episodes(Weekly).
Director - Tom Shankland
Written by Andrew Davies(Multi award-winning screenwriter -
War & Peace, Pride and Prejudice)

Stars-Lily Collins(To the Bone)
Dominic West(The Affair, Colette), David Oyelowo.

Les Misérables has been done and done again.
Most of us are familiar with the musical version.
Victor Hugo’s 1862 classic novel Les Misérables is better
known when it was adapted into an Oscar-winning film in
2012 starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway.

This series will not be based on the musical
(there aren’t any songs in this adaptation) but will focus
on the relationship between Jean Valjean and Javert.
It will stay close to Hugo's original plot.

Set in early 19th-century against the backdrop of civil
unrest in France.
The story follows, Jean Valjean(Dominic West), a peasant,
and his quest for redemption after serving 19 years in jail
for stealing a loaf of bread.
He breaks his parole and starts a new life after a bishop
inspires him with an act of mercy.

On the run, as he is being tracked down by a obsessed and
villainous police inspector named Javert(David Oyelowo )
Born in prison to criminal parents and yet he chooses to
work in a prison, as a guard.His dedication to duty that
takes him from obsession to madness.
And we will get to see more of Valjean and Javert’s
cat-and-mouse relationship.

Fantine(Lily Collins), a young woman full of hope.
The first episode we get to see her meet the man whom
she thinks is the man of her dreams, filled her
days with endless wonder, fall in love and have a child.
Spends a summer by her side, gone when autumn comes.

We are along with her on the tragic journey and you feel
just as bad as things go poorly for her.

Powerful performances from Dominic West and David Oyelowo.
Beautifully filmed with some breathtaking scenes from the
aftermath of Waterloo in the opening.






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Sex Education( US & UK-2019)
Release Date-Jan 11
Eight episodes-All available.
Star-Stars: Gillian Anderson, Asa Butterfield, Emma Mackey.

Jean (Gillian Anderson), a single mother, practicing
sex, relationship therapist and bestselling author on the
subject. Frank manner and a limited sense of personal boundaries.
Her marriage (also her former co-author) ended because he couldn’t
stop stepping out on her.

Otis (Asa Butterfield), a 16-year-old high school student, good at
academics and socially awkward. His mother's occupation has made
him more sexually educated than his high school peers.
Despite his discomfort with his mother ’s occupation, he’s
nonetheless picked up some decent knowledge.
He periodically eavesdropping on her sessions with clients.

Adam(Connor Swindells) suffers a penis-related emergency,
it’s Otis who has to talk him down.

Enterprising classmate Maeve (Emma Mackey) notices
that, and convinces him to start up an unauthorized sex-therapy
business partnership at school to earn them both a bit of cash.
She handles the money, client-finding, appointment-making
while he does the therapizing.

This is a is a birds-and-bees comedy.
To parents, you could enjoy it together if you have
a sense of boundaries as expansive as Jean.
I do not think so. I’d suggest you watch it separately.



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Wayne (Action-comedy.2019)
Premiered- Jan.16.
10 episodes(30 mins each)-All available.
Created-Shawn Simmons
Stars- Mark McKenna, Ciara Bravo.

Wayne (Mark McKenna) 16, has an issue with
impulse control.
Kids fear Wayne more than they do than the
vice principal, Cole (Mike O’Malley). But he isn’t a bully.
He just couldn’t stand for anybody getting away with
doing something wrong. Like getting revenge for people.

He decided to leave his rundown neighborhood
in Brockton, on a bike with his girlfriend
Del (Ciara Bravo)15, to Ocala Florida. To take back
the 1978 Pontiac Trans Am. The car his father
wanted him to have. The car his mother took off
when he was 5.

It’s Wayne and Del against the world. as the
duo's adventures travel south.

Wayne is able to grab you almost instantly.
It is entertaining, funny and rarely dull.

De Dag/The Day - An unusual narrative format.

There's a little gimmick how this series unravel. It's a bank hostage drama. On the odd number episodes is the perspective of the police force solving the hostage situation. Whereas the even episodes focus on the hostage takers perspective. The clever part of it all is you can never trust what you just watched. What was shown on episode 1 can easily be debunked on the following episode as you only saw half of the puzzle. Yupp it's those super twisty and subverting your expectations type of show. You gotta binge 2 episodes at a go to get a more accurate information to what was shown to you. It's unusual and a refreshing format. Liking it so far after 4 episodes of 12. While waiting for Money Heist S3 to return this is a good place holder.

Sadly no, Jack Sparrow is the only way to watch it. I won't be surprised if US decide to remake this cause it is that good. Money Heist is more colourful and action packed while this one is more grounded. The ending twist is pretty good and a really good antagonist pulling the strings behind the crime.

I tried to watch this tonight but no stream available on my fav add on