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What happens when a teacher who barely understands his own subject somehow becomes one of the most recognizable faces at a prestigious private school? In most workplaces, that would be a disaster. At Xavier Academy, however, it’s just another day...
What happens when an old-school New York mobster spends twenty-five years behind bars, remains loyal to his criminal family, and discovers that his reward is exile to a city where nobody knows his name? That is the entertaining premise behind Tulsa King,...
Few war films capture the psychological terror of combat as powerfully as Das Boot, Wolfgang Petersen’s extraordinary 1981 German submarine drama. Instead of focusing on glorious victories, heroic speeches, or large-scale battlefield spectacles,...
What happens when the perfect political marriage is built on a lie, a secret lover is murdered, and the people responsible for protecting you might be the most dangerous individuals in your life? That is the unsettling premise behind Black Doves, a British...
Few television series have experienced a rise quite like Money Heist. Originally released in Spain as La casa de papel, Álex Pina’s crime thriller began as a comparatively contained Spanish television project about an elaborate robbery and eventually...
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is preparing to enter a dramatically different stage of its Second Age story. After two seasons devoted heavily to establishing Middle-earth’s kingdoms, alliances, characters, Rings of Power, and the growing...
Few historical events have produced as much argument, trauma, political division, and cultural reflection as the Vietnam War, which makes attempting to tell its story in a single documentary an enormous challenge. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick approached...
Imagine civilization collapsing so completely that centuries later humanity no longer remembers what it means to see. Reading has largely disappeared, the visual world has become almost mythical, and people have rebuilt society around hearing, touch,...
Few television dramas establish tension as quickly as Bodyguard. Within its opening episode, creator Jed Mercurio places Police Sergeant David Budd inside a potential terrorist attack and forces him to rely on negotiation, instinct, and extraordinary...
Nemesis takes one of crime television’s oldest ideas—a brilliant detective hunting an equally capable criminal—and builds an eight-episode Netflix drama around what happens when that rivalry becomes more important than almost everything else in their...