My Top Three This Week
Greetings to all my semi-constant readers. Nice weather is upon us and while we will be spending some quality time outside , the new releases just out will be calling your name. April will be a good month for some upcoming series and there are some good ones that I will be sharing below. Enjoy!
1) Behind Her Eyes streaming on Netflix is a non-stop binge watch. Without giving too much away , this is the twisty tale of Louise (Simona Brown) a single mom who works at a psychiatrist office and begins an affair with her boss (Tom Bateman) and becomes close friends with his wife Adele (Eve Hewson). And if that is not enough we see through various flashbacks that Adele seems a little unhinged and there is mystery that builds each episode to a terrifying conclusion. Hewson is my favorite actress right now and she steals the series.
2) The Luminaries on Starz is a mesmerizing series filmed in New Zealand about the 1860s gold rush, a murder and a mystical story of "Astral Twins"-two people born at the exact same moment who share a destiny. A young Anna Wetherell and Emery Staines meet on a ship bound for New Zealand and quickly form a bond and plan a rendezvous that fate would not allow. A fortune teller Lydia Wells (Eva Green) and her husband Crosbie ( who recently struck it rich , take a young Anna in to their home . Lydia has great plans for a young Anna and they are not in her best interest and she plots the murder of her husband. Anna is played by the great Eve Hewson (see Behind Her Eyes) and Himesh Patel as Emory. This story covers the terrible treatment of women during that period as well as the treatment of the Chinese who came to strike it rich. I loved this series.
3) Made For Love now on HBO MAX is a unique dark comedy series about new technology that will include a chip that is implanted in each of a couple's brain that merges their thoughts so that there are no secrets between them. Hazel Green (Cristin Milioti) finds out that her billionaire husband Byron Gogol of Gogol Technologies (Billy Magnussen) has implanted this device in her without her knowledge and can now track her every move. Love or obsession? Either way this is a creepy story of Hazel's escape from a man she doesn't love and how invasive technology can be. Part thriller and part comedy, this hybrid is a great watch. Magnussen is fantastic as the tech billionaire and Cristin is superb as Hazel and we have the added bonus of Ray Romano as her father and his blow up doll girlfriend.
No comments:
Post a Comment