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- TV series Western
Yellowstone (2018): A ranch at the edge of change
Paramount Press Express describes Yellowstone as a 2018 series centered on the Dutton family and the large Montana cattle ranch they control. The ranch sits amid competing pressures from an expanding town, an Indigenous reservation, and a…
- TV series Science Fiction
Westworld (2016): Who gets to be real?
HBO describes Westworld as a 2016 drama series set in a futuristic fantasy park where android hosts begin deviating from the carefully planned scripts written for them. Their unexpected behavior unsettles the people who designed the…
- TV series Comedy
Ted Lasso (2020): Coaching with optimism
Apple TV's official trailer introduces Ted Lasso, an American football coach hired to manage AFC Richmond, an English football club, despite knowing little about the sport. Ted tries to meet the players and supporters with curiosity and…
- TV series Drama
Succession (2018): Family business, no happy heirs
HBO describes Succession as a drama series about a media mogul and his four grown children as they face questions about the future of the family-controlled company. As Logan Roy's authority comes into question, business decisions and…
- TV series Drama
The Last of Us (2023): A journey through a broken world
HBO lists The Last of Us as a 2023 series set twenty years after a parasitic fungal infection has devastated the world. Hardened survivor Joel is hired to smuggle Ellie, a teenage girl, to the rebel Fireflies. What begins as a dangerous…
- TV series Comedy
The Bear (2022): Kitchen chaos as family therapy
Hulu describes The Bear as a 2022 series about Carmy, a chef who pushes himself and his crew as they struggle to keep a restaurant going. Set in the demanding world of a Chicago kitchen, the story brings together food, family, grief, and…
- TV series Science Fiction
Severance (2022): The office where you don't know yourself
Apple TV Press describes Severance as a series about Mark Scout and a team at Lumon Industries whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mystery begins to unravel inside the company, Mark is…
- TV series Animation
Arcane (2021): Sisters divided by a city at war
Netflix Tudum describes Arcane as an animated series based on League of Legends, following sisters Vi and Powder as conflict grows between the neighboring cities of Piltover and Zaun. Once close, the sisters are pulled onto different…
- Movies War
1917 (2019): Two men, one message, no cuts
Universal Pictures presents 1917 as a 2019 film directed by Sam Mendes. At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake, are ordered to cross enemy territory and deliver a message calling off an…
- Movies Mystery
Knives Out (2019): A whodunit where everyone's guilty
Lionsgate presents Knives Out as a 2019 film written and directed by Rian Johnson. After crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate, Detective Benoit Blanc is drawn into an investigation where everyone in the dysfunctional…
- Movies Horror
Hereditary (2018): Grief as a haunted house
A24 describes Hereditary as a 2018 film written and directed by Ari Aster. After their grandmother dies, the members of the Graham family begin uncovering troubling secrets about their ancestry and struggle to escape a fate that seems to…
- TV series History
Shōgun (2024): A stranger in the warlord's game
Hulu and FX present Shōgun as a limited series created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks, based on James Clavell's novel. In Japan, 1600, Lord Yoshii Toranaga fights for his life as the Council of Regents unites against him. A mysterious…
- Movies History
Oppenheimer (2023): The weight of the world
Universal Pictures presents Oppenheimer as a 2023 film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, centered on physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb. Its central tension is a stark paradox: the scientists race…
- Movies Fantasy
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022): The Multiverse as Midlife Crisis
A24 lists Everything Everywhere All at Once as a 2022 film written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. An interdimensional rupture pulls Evelyn Wang, an exhausted immigrant mother who is struggling to finish her taxes, into…
- Movies Crime
Parasite (2019): The House That Class Built
Neon and CJ Entertainment present Parasite as a 2019 film written and directed by Bong Joon-ho. The unemployed Kim family infiltrates the wealthy Park household through a series of deceptions, each member securing a position as tutor,…
- Movies Science Fiction
Arrival (2016): Listening Before the World Breaks
Paramount Pictures lists Arrival as a 2016 film. When spacecraft appear around the world, linguist Louise Banks is asked to help decipher their purpose while governments grow increasingly fearful. The immediate puzzle is about…