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Although the suburb of Colleyville in Texas is usually considered a safe place, a brutal murder in September 2014 shook the local community. Once the police reached the crime scene, they found blood splatters everywhere while the 72-year-old housekeeper, Anita Fox, lay motionless on the floor. Investigation Discovery’s ‘A Time To Kill: Five Million Reasons For Murder’ focuses on the horrific crime and follows the police investigation which brought the perpetrator to justice....

TLC’s ‘90 Day Fiance‘ has managed to garner a significant fanbase over the years as it offers viewers a peek into the workings of a cross-border relationship. In fact, the show’s popularity even paved the way for several successful spin-offs. The show revolves around the lives of US citizens and their foreign fiances who have 90 days to get married as per the provisions of the K-1 visa. It is interesting to witness how each pair tries their best to make things work given the limited time they have....

‘Dark’ is a Netflix-original German series set is a small town of Winden where the disappearance of an 11-year-old boy kickstarts a series of events that tie a knot between the past, the present and the future. It is one of the handful shows that will twist your brain and leave you thoroughly confused at every turn. If you haven’t yet seen the show and are planning to do it sometime in the near future (the sooner the better), then I advise you to sit with a chart and a pen and make your notes through every episode!...

It is said to be like a death, the end of a marriage impacting a family like a terrible loss. Divorces with children can be terrible, often subjecting the kids to a virtual war zone before it finally ends. They are left with lingering questions about their part in it, who loves them, who do they love, the pain they endure can often last their entire lives. Sometimes spouses can be friends, even support each other in their new lives....

The main antagonist in ‘All of Us Are Dead’ is inarguably the unrelenting and inhuman Jonas virus itself. But that is not the only opposition the protagonists must overcome if they want to survive. There are quite a few humans that pose a severe threat. Among them is Yoon Gwi-nam (In-soo Yoo). A bully and coward, Gwi-nam has been the main lackey in a high school delinquent gang, tormenting and blackmailing fellow students....

HBO’s ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ tells the story of a couple brought together by a decades-long romance and torn apart by time travel. Henry lives with a condition that makes him randomly jump through time to the past. As his romance with Clare deepens, the two struggle with Henry’s condition. Unlike most depictions of time travel, the series makes it appear more like a curse than a superpower. Henry is forced to learn survival skills in order to live through his seemingly random temporal jumps....

Developed by Ronald D. Moore based on the eponymous novel series by Diana Gabaldon, Starz’s historical series ‘Outlander’ centers around Claire, who travel back in time from the 20th century to the 18th century to fall in love with a Highland warrior named Jamie Fraser. Jamie and Claire get entangled in the political turmoil between the Scots and the English, surviving several life-threatening instances. Jamie’s valorous efforts to protect his wife and compatriots lead him to encounter death multiple times, only to survive alive every time....

‘The Boys’ is set in a world where superheroes are actually villains. While normal people take up arms against them, not all Supes are bad. There are some, like Starlight who are good to the core. And there are others, like Maeve who are not exactly evil but don’t make any effort to fall under the category of being good as well. Maeve is one of the most complex characters in the story, and through the seasons, the show has developed a well-thought-out arc for her....

Have you ever taken a closer look at the Non-Playable Characters in an open-world video game – who readily give in to pickpockets and gun violence? If so, Shawn Levy’s action blockbuster romantic comedy ‘Free Guy’ packs a hell of a lot of glorious action and glitchy shenanigans for you. The story follows Guy, a good-hearted blue-collar banker in the ultraviolent cosmopolis of Free City, where people who wear sunglasses are heroes....

Titled ‘It’s Not Illegal,’ season 2 episode 8 of ‘Gentleman Jack‘ gives a fitting conclusion to the sophomore outing of the historical drama TV series. The finale sees Anne Lister and Ann Walker’s marital conflicts boiling over during their London trip, thus causing them to doubt their devotion to one another. Meanwhile, the latter’s brother-in-law, Captain Sutherland, decides to make things worse for her by refusing to go ahead with the estate division....

In what can only be described as an incredibly compelling documentary series unraveling the dark side of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire, A&E’s ‘Secrets of Playboy‘ is a place where Holly Madison does not hold back. After all, having dated the publisher from 2001 to 2008, she deemed what she experienced with him to be Stockholm Syndrome and added on the show the entire organization worked as a “cult” that “Hef” was solely responsible for....

Wes Craven’s slasher horror masterpiece ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ hardly needs an introduction for the budding cinephile. From 1984 to 2010, the original franchise spun nine movies, with Wes Craven directing two of them. The story follows the grotesque villain Freddy Krueger, who hijacks people’s dreams to kill them. When the dream world seems a bit too bloody real, the protagonists try to stay awake, as long as their bodily mechanism lets them....

A young Benjamin Risha had no idea about the horrors that lurked behind Tony Alamo’s quiet exterior. Tony, a preacher who started a cult and eventually a multi-million dollar industry, behaved as if he was the one and only chosen messiah sent to the Earth as God’s emissary. Investigation Discovery’s ‘Evil Lives Here: He Was a False Prophet’ chronicles Tony’s life from his rise to his atrocities and how he was ultimately arrested for crimes against underaged girls....

SPONSORED LINKS 7. Beach Rats (2017) Directed by Eliza Hittman, this 2017 film stars Harris Dickinson in the leading role as a young man called Frankie who is desperate to escape his Brooklyn life and move somewhere else. He usually loiters around with his girlfriend and friends, and sometimes indulges in sex with older men in exchange for money and drugs. Frankie, however, is not homosexual, but just indulges in the sex to obtain certain benefits....

Once in a blue moon comes a TV show or a film that is so wholesome that it leaves you with a perpetual smile plastered on your face after every episode. ‘Our Flag Means Death’ explores history with the liberty of ‘The Great’ and comedic flamboyance of ‘What We Do in the Shadows.’ Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) used to be a wealthy landowner. But because of marital issues, he decided to leave it all behind and became a pirate....

A standalone sequel to the 2004 Mexican telenovela ‘Rebelde,’ Netflix’s Mexican teen show ‘Rebelde’ revolves around Elite Way School, following the lives of the students attending the same. The Spanish-language series progresses through several conflicts the members of the band Without Name face while trying to establish themselves as the new voices in the contemporary music scene. The show, which originally premiered on January 5, 2022, also heavily focuses on the relationships between the students....

Carol Kennedy came home from a run one evening in July 2008 only to be viciously attacked and killed at her in Prescott, Arizona, residence. In the inquiry that ensued, her ex-husband, Steven DeMocker, became the prime suspect because he had the motive and the means. The first half of Investigation Discovery’s ‘Deadly Sins: No Forgiveness: Greed Is (Not) Good’ chronicles Steven and Carol’s relationship before a divorce led to a fatal conclusion....

Created by Michel Carvalho, Ana Pacheco, Natalia Piserni, and Ricardo Tiezzi, Portuguese-original coming-of-age romance drama series ‘Summer Heat’ (original title: ‘Temporada de Verão’) is infused with a warm fuzzy feeling enough to entice young-adult fans. The story revolves around the frolicking and youthful staff members of Maresia Hotel, who come from various walks of life. But wearing the same baby blue uniform, they fight the mundane battle of every day with an indomitable spirit....

Netflix has been stepping up its Asian content for a while, and Michihito Fujii’s gritty and somber political thriller series ‘The Journalist’ (alternative title: ‘Shinbun Kisha’) is another fine addition to the oeuvre. The storyline is the perfect fodder for thought for a disillusioned generation. After the eruption of a scandal surrounding a private school on a public plot, Nagoya-based journalist Anna Matsuda from Touto news sets out to chart the labyrinth of bureaucracy and corruption....

In the seventh episode of season 2 of ‘The Righteous Gemstones,’ titled ‘And Infants Shall Rule Over Them,’ Eli (John Goodman) survives the attack but just barely and is placed on life support. Even with their father lying unconscious on a hospital bed, the Gemstone siblings continue their vicious fight over succession until Martin (Gregory Alan Williams) lashes out at them. Jesse (Danny McBride) and Martin set up a trap for attackers....