what to watch to reboot your life

The Life List

A light “second coming of middle age” drama about a 30-something New Yorker who sets out to conquer the “life list” she wrote as a teenager after her mother passes, and finds herself uncovering family secrets, pushing her boundaries, and landing in a love triangle. Based on Lori Nelson Spielman’s novel, it’s heartfelt and hopeful

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Bosch: Legacy S3

The third and final season of the father-daughter focused spinoff of the original Michael Connelly series follows the former LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he becomes a private investigator, teaming up with his one-time enemy Honey “Money” Chandler (a nod to that other legendary LA noir novelist Raymond Chandler) and his daughter Maddie, an LAPD

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Holland

Set in the idyllic town of Holland, Michigan, where time appears to be frozen in a 1950s Dutch village, Nicole Kidman plays a teacher who begins to suspect her optometrist husband (Matthew MacFayden) is hiding a double life, a suspicion stoked by a handsome shop teacher (Gael García Bernal), and their tulip-filled world takes a

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The Friend

After her friend and mentor passes away, a solitary New York writer learns that he wanted her to have his giant Great Dane, and a reluctant new adventure begins in this poignant story about grief, healing and four-legged friends. Naomi Watts and Bill Murray co-star in this beautifully shot indie tribute to Manhattan and midlife.

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Big Boys S3

Two mismatched college roommates become best mates in this warmhearted, laugh out loud British comedy that just dropped its third and final season. A coming-of-age show for anyone nostalgic for the hijinx of college (“uni”), it’s also a coming-out story and a buddy comedy.

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Ex-Husbands

After his wife decides to leave him after 35 years, a New York dentist (Griffin Dunne) manages his midlife crisis by booking a trip to Tulum, which happens to coincide with his son’s bachelor party in this three-generation indie comedy that’s a poignant look at father-son bonds.  From Tomris Laffly at RogerEbert: “With a tender

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Understanding right wing shift through Merkel documentary

Merkel

As a pastor’s daughter who grew up in Communist East Germany, Angela Merkel was an unlikely candidate to become one of the world’s most powerful leaders, serving as Germany’s Chancellor for a historic 16 years. At a time of political upheaval in Europe and around the world, this timely documentary takes a fresh look at

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Best baseball movie for middle aged men

Eephus

A tribute to small towns, adult rec leagues, and the potency of baseball, Eephus is for anyone who remembers the Bad News Bears.  It follows two recreational baseball teams filled with aging men as they play their final game on a field doomed for demolition, and it features two Red Sox legends (you will have

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Netflix medical soap operate ER PUlse april 2025

Pulse

Set at a Miami trauma center as they brace for a major hurricane, this Netflix’s first episodic medical drama, and it promises the fast-pace and high stakes urgency of The Pitt with the soapier elements of Grey’s Anatomy. RogerEbert’s Kaiya Shunyata is on board: “Despite the burden the binge-model proposes, Netflix has crafted one of

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