‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’ makes true crime chillingly personal
First episode impressions (TV review): Driven by stellar performances, the Hulu miniseries is among the fall’s best shows.
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‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’ makes true crime chillingly personal
‘Chucky’ makes a killer move to prestige TV in Season 1 (2021)
‘Child’s Play’ flashback (TV review): Falling short of the writing and acting of influences like “Hannibal” and “Cobra Kai,” these eight episodes are nonetheless bizarrely watchable.
‘Child’s Play’ (2019) is ChINO: Chucky in name only
‘Child’s Play’ flashback (Movie review): Actually, it’s a good thing that the remake is different, but it didn’t need to take the “Child’s Play” name.
‘Agatha Christie’s Marple’ Season 5 (2010-11) offers something old, something new
Sleuthing Sunday (TV review): A Miss Marple short story finally gets adapted, along with two non-Marple novels and one of her standout novels.
‘Buffy: The Bewitching Hour’ (2023) a treat for Tara fans
‘Buffy’ flashback (Book review): Ashley Poston goes back to Season 3 for a tricky novel about what Tara was doing in her senior year of high school.
Handoff to McKenzie is intriguing – if not exactly smooth – in ‘Marple’ Season 4 (2009)
Sleuthing Sunday (TV review): Though Marple’s personality changes, she still fits the elderly sleuth’s flexible template in four engaging episodes.
‘Child’s Play’ (1988) delightfully codifies killer-doll subgenre
‘Child’s Play’ flashback (Movie review): Evil toys go mainstream as Chucky joins the pantheon of Eighties slasher icons.
Boyle, Garland recapture emotional punch in ’28 Years Later’
Movie review: The passing of time doesn’t dilute the character-driven power of the 21st century’s best zombie film series.
‘Against the Darkness’ (2024) duly wraps Blake’s ‘Frankie’ trilogy
‘Buffy’ flashback (Book review): This is ultimately an unremarkable “what if” saga about Willow having a Gen-Z Slayer-witch offspring.
‘Marple’s’ intrusions make more sense in strong Season 3 (2007-09)
Sleuthing Sunday (TV review): Geraldine McEwan wraps up her 12 episodes in the title role in respectable fashion.