This political thriller got mixed reviews, but I’m not sure why – I loved it. The premise is that Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) is a career state department fixer and doer – she works best behind the scenes, making things happen. Her husband, Hal (Rufus Sewell) is a career ambassador, charming and connected. For Reasons, …
A group of MI5 agents are banished to a backwater office for various failings. Their irascible boss, played to perfection by Gary Oldman, doesn’t seem like much, but he’s a canny old spy who’s better than he seems. When a young man is kidnapped by a group of ultra-nationalists, the group (the slow horses) are …
When the first season of this show ended I immediately went back to the beginning and watched the entire season again, it was that good. Our protagonists work for a mysterious company that allows some workers to completely sever their work life from their personal life – their work persona (their “Innie”) has no knowledge …
Twenty years ago a plane with a high school girls soccer team crashed in the Canadian Rockies. In an initial scene we see a flashback from the woods, and it is not pretty – there is a bizarre ritual and implied cannibalism. In present day, three of the survivors are living their lives when some …
In The Woman Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, Kirsten Bell plays a woman (Anna) still grief-stricken from the death of her daughter years before. When new neighbors move in across the street, Anna watches their house constantly, until one day she witnesses a woman being murdered. The thing is, Anna is …
James Spader plays an international criminal who volunteers to help the FBI catch other (worse) criminals, meanwhile there are secrets upon secrets that slowly unfold. It can be up and down and IMHO goes on a few seasons too long, but it is well made and James Spader plays the lead with delicious nonchalance.