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AGATHA CHRISTIE’S SEVEN DIALS MINISERIES REVIEW For countless years, master storyteller and queen of the “who done it” genre, Agatha Christie, has entertained and thrilled us with her mysteries. Even if you’ve never read a single story, you’re almost certainly familiar with her thanks to countless adaptations and homages through television, film, and plays. With […]

A HAUNTING IN VENICE MOVIE REVIEW Poirot is tired. And I don’t mean because of the last two Kenneth Branagh starring/directed films being so blah. I mean, in this third installment of his adaptations starring Agatha Christie’s famous detective character, he’s hung up his magnifying glass. Hidden away in Venice and refusing to accept any […]

THE AFTERPARTY SEASON 2 The songs off the playlist are winding down. The frantic dancing has slowed to a shuffling of feet in the drunken embrace of a lover that never was, and all the kegs are empty. You know what that means, catch me at the AFTERPARTY! Apple TV presents Season 2 of Chris […]

ENOLA HOLMES 2 MOVIE REVIEW Flush with the success of her first case, Enola Holmes 2 finds our titular heroine (Millie Bobby Brown) starting her own detective agency. Unfortunately, Enola finds herself overshadowed by her famous older brother Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and nobody wants to hire a private detective who is so young – and […]

SEE HOW THEY RUN MOVIE REVIEW Between Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot adaptations and Rian Johnson’s Benoit Blanc movies, famed author Agatha Christie and Christie-inspired mysteries are enjoying something of a resurgence. You know the type of story I’m talking about: a prominent person is murdered, a star studded ensemble of suspects gather in a remote […]

THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT SEASON 2 REVIEW The Flight Attendant season 2 is here and Kaley Cuoco’s Cassie Bowden is moving to Los Angeles, The Screener Squad is following right behind her with with a moving van full of haunting family trauma, more international murders, even more family trauma, and a full cast of old friends […]

THE AFTERPARTY SERIES REVIEW High school reunions can be tricky. Are you there for lost love? To show everyone you’re not the loser they thought you were back then? Relive your glory days? Commit revengeful murder on a now-famous classmate? Well, all that is what brings together the star-studded cast of Apple TV’s murder mystery […]

MURDERVILLE SERIES REVIEW There’s been a murder! Will Arnett and a host of guest stars are on the case, but the twist is not everyone is on the same page. Each episode of Murderville features a different murder, a different group of suspects, and a different guest detective who must gather clues and solve the […]

THE WOMAN IN THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE GIRL IN THE WINDOW SERIES REVIEW Kristen Bell plays a woman suffering from depression, occasional hallucinations, and a crippling fear of rain, who potentially sees something terrible happen to a neighbor and sets her mind to solving the mystery. No, it’s not a Veronica Mars […]

DEATH ON THE NILE MOVIE REVIEW Agatha Christie’s master detective Hercules Poirot returns in this second adaptation by and starring Kenneth Branagh as the mustachioed master of mystery. This time he finds himself on a celebratory wedding cruise down the river Nile as the very wealthy Linnet (Gal Gadot) has just been married to the […]