The Madness political thriller on Netflix

The Madness

A political consultant turned TV pundit (Colman Domingo) finds himself in a deepening conspiracy when he ends up framed for the murder of a white supremacist in the Poconos in this taut thriller series that is sure to trend on Netflix as a Thanksgiving binge watch.  All eight episodes stream today.

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Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae

Over thirty years after her mother was murdered, her daughter and a team of documentary producers uncover the truth about a legendary Mi’kmaq woman from Nova Scotia, Canada who fought fearlessly for Indigenous rights and ended up in the crosshairs of 1970s political upheaval.

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Oscar movie Conclave Pope Ralph Fiennes

Conclave

The Oscar contender arrives on transactional vod (Fandango at Home, Apple, YouTube TV, Prime), starring Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal leading the secretive ritual of anointing a new pope, only to realize he’s in the middle of a conspiracy that runs deep into the foundations of the Catholic church. Based on Robert Harris’ best-selling novel

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Get Millie Black HBO series jamaica story streaming on Max

Get Millie Black

Not your typical British detective series, HBO-Channel 4 production follows a Scotland Yard detective who heads home to Kingston, Jamaica, only to end up back in London in an explosive international missing persons case. Created by the Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, who mined his own personal story for the series, the six episodes weave

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Blitz

Set in England during WWII, a London mother (Saoirse Ronan) sends her 9-year-old son away to save him from the German blitzkrieg  in the English countryside, but the boy becomes determined to find his way back home in what becomes a treacherous journey that sheds light on rarely seen perspectives from the war. Director Steve

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The Piano Lesson

Falling somewhere between a filmed play and a movie, Denzel Washington is the producer behind this adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play directed by Malcolm Washington and starring John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, and Samuel Jackson. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh, it’s the story of how a family ends up torn over the fate of

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Sex Lives of College Girls returns to Hbo max

The Sex Lives of College Girls S3

The breakout college-set comedy from Mindy Kaling returns for a third season — taking us into the four roommates’ sophomore year after leaving off on a Season 2 cliffhanger.  You should probably watch the final episode of S2 at least before jumping into S3.  This one is aiming to be a Thanksgiving Break binge watch

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Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions

Set at a fancy Washington D.C.-area college, the kind of place where the country’s VP sends their kids, two rivalrous step siblings vie for social power in the Greek system in this soapy, sexed-up, modern-day adaptation of the 1999 film.  Critics are not on board, but one of the original actors is — Sean Patrick

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Best new drama is Interior Chinatown Jimmy O Yang

Interior Chinatown

Silicon Valley star Jimmy O. Yang plays a background actor on a cop show who stumbles into a real-life criminal conspiracy involving his family’s secret history in this heightened reality comedy-drama, which was adapted from the best-seller of the same name by Charles Yu.  From Adrian Horton at The Guardian:  “It’s a provocative and at

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Ted Danson Man on the Inside

A Man on the Inside

Ted Danson stars in this deeper-than-a-sitcom mystery comedy about a widower who goes undercover as a spy in a senior home to investigate some missing heirlooms, which opens a whole new chapter in his life.  It comes from The Good Place creator, Mike Schur and its based on the Oscar-nominated documentary Mole Agent — so

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