ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES – Season 1 Episode 2 – SPOILERS ⁓ When Lucy (Krysten Ritter), who was printed about two years ago and is going through her “terrible twos”, brings her prisoner Jules (Amanda Fix) to Settlement House, she interrupts …
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS ⁓ PRELUDE Lucy (Krysten Ritter) wakes up on a leather couch in what appears to be someone’s living room, with two rosy-faced lovebirds chirping in a cage nearby. A woman …
I’LL TAKE YOUR DEAD – directed by Chad Archibald – SPOILERS ⁓ William Derrow (Aidan Devine) lives on a farm with his daughter Gloria (Ava Preston), and circumstances have made him an urban legend. His butchering skills are regularly employed …
THE BET – a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin (speculative recap) Isabel (Natasha Little) and her husband Cal (Colin Salmon) find themselves at odds while having dinner in an unassuming restaurant. Cal thought Isabel had told him that Adam, a man …
SPOILERS — In “Luan Casca” (episode 2.6) a slightly-older-but-still-in-her-teens Aster arrives at Beacon 90, ostensibly to complete her Beacon Keeper training. Aster is a member of an unnamed rebel group and her real intention has something to do with Keeper …
Tricia Helfer (Dracula in 9 episodes) is Gloria in THE GREAT SALISH HEIST, the story of Steve Joe (Darrell Dennis), an archeologist nearing rock bottom who believes he can stop the downward trajectory of his life by reclaiming the artefacts …
HUMANE – directed by Caitlin Cronenberg – (limited spoilers) ⁓ This is a locked room mystery with the victims alive at the start. Yusef (Joel Gagne) and Malik (Frankie Francois) arrive to relocate a grand piano for well-known news anchor …
BEACON 23 – Season 2 Episodes 1-3 – SPOILERS ⁓ Aster Calyx (Lena Headey), having been shot by Kier (Marc Menchaca) in the final moments of the first season, lies in a pool of blood. As Halan (Stephan James) tries …
A SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE – a film by Geordie Sabbagh – SPOILERS ⁓ Tracy (Meghan Heffern), significant other to unpublished novelist Adam Loule (Dylan Taylor), has made French toast for breakfast. She sets a plate of it in front …
BIRDLAND – a film by Peter Lynch – SPOILERS ⁓ Police Detective Sheila Hood (Kathleen Munroe) suspects her ornithologist husband Tom Kale (David Alpay) is up to something. (She knows not what.) Sheila unofficially borrows police surveillance equipment, and watches …
SIGHT UNSEEN – Season 1 Episode 1 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ After her usual early morning swim, Police Detective Tess Avery (Dolly Lewis) and her partner Jake Campbell (Daniel Gillies) are on their way to a murder investigation. JAKE: “Who …
HAPPILY EVER AFTER – a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin – SPOILERS ⁓ On the advice of her father’s doctor, filmmaker Heather (Janet Montgomery) reluctantly returns home after a long absence. She expects to find her alcoholic dad near death, but …
THREE BODY – the first six episodes – (limited spoilers) ⁓ In 1979 a radio telescope in Northeastern China receives a message. Officially, it it decided to send no response, but young astrophysicist Ye Wenjie (Chen Jin) transmits an unauthorized …
WILD CARDS – Season 1 Episode 9 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ On a Saturday, Max (Vanessa Morgan) gets a call from her butler Ricky (Fletcher Donovan). She is downtown, and walking to some unspecified location. “I’m calling,” he says, “to …
WILD CARDS – Episode 108 – Eternal Sunshine of the Therapized Mind – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Dr. Sophie Fernwood, renowned therapist and self-help guru, is found floating face down in her swimming pool, dead. Cole (Giacomo Gianniotti) and Max (Vanessa …
WILD CARDS – created by Michael Konyves (limited spoilers) Police Detective Cole Ellis (Giacomo Gianniotti) has a new sidekick, and he’s not sure it’s a good thing. A year ago, his brother Daniel was killed in an apparently random mugging. …
LOVE OF MY LIFE – a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin – (limited spoilers) Grace (Anna Chancellor) has a brain tumor and has been told she might die during the operation to remove it — an operation scheduled for four days …
ENYS MEN – a film by Mark Jenkin – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Thought-provoking and beautiful, ENYS MEN is set in April, 1973 on a deserted island off the Cornish coast, where a lone Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) monitors the status of …
Reality TV writer Klara Sandberg (Hanna Alström) listens to herself pitch new ideas for her show “Milf Hotelle” and is suddenly revolted by her own ideas. She suggests they should be making better television, and, inspired by the cover of …
MRS SIDHU INVESTIGATES – a series created by Suk Pannu ⁓ Mrs. Suki Sidhu (Meera Syal) runs a catering company in the town of Slough which rhymes with “plow” and is located midway between London and Reading on the M4. …
DANIELLE CORMACK Ephiny, Queen of the Telaquire Amazons in 9 Xena episodes. Danielle Cormack will be Deziyah in MADAM, an soon-to-be-released half-hour TV series based on Antonia Murphy’s unpublished memoir about an American woman who opened an ethical escort agency …
SKYMED – Season 2 Episode 1 – SPOILERS ⁓ Chief PIlot Wheezer (Aaron Ashmore) is excited about the company’s new aircraft, so he temporarily takes over as pilot and flies Stef , the new girl from Toronto, and Lexi, who …
BETTER DAYS – a film by Joan Carr-Wiggin – (limited spoilers) ⁓ It is a tale of death and doubt, and it begins on Eric’s birthday, but we don’t know which birthday it was, because only one candle is on …
CHARLIE WAGNER – The Swarm – Leonie Benesch ⁓ Exiled to the Shetland Islands for failing to follow protocol, Charlie is well positioned to observe the strange events happening in the world’s oceans, but she reasons in unconventional ways and …
BEACON 23 – created by Zak Penn – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Neither knows why, but Halan Kai Neilsen (Stephan James) and Aster Calyx (Lena Headey) find themselves drawn to Beacon 23. one of many beacons positioned along galactic travel routes …
WYNONNA EARP — The Saga of Kate and Doc Chantel Riley was Doc Holliday’s wife Kate in nine episodes of WYNONNA EARP, and the character could easily be expanded. When introduced in “Blood Red and Going Down” (Season Three, Episode …
SURREALESTATE – Season 2 Episode 10 – SPOILERS ⁓ “Hela Ensom (Allie Duff), whose name means “entirely alone” in Norwegian, is dead. and her custom-built house is making trouble. Thomas Rabbitfoot (Bill MacDonald), who built the house explained to Luke …
⁓ SURREALESTATE- Season 2 Episode 9 – SPOILERS ⁓ Leaving the hospital after visiting Zooey, Luke (Tim Rozon) notices that Anya (Maddie Hemeon) cannot seem to cross the street even though the light has changed. He asks if she is …
WINTERTIDE – directed by John Barnard – SPOILERS ⁓ It is the ninety-eighth consecutive day of night, and dawn is not coming anytime soon. Something must have changed the Earth’s axial tilt, because no place remains dark for that long …
SURREALESTATE – Season 2 Episode 8 – SPOILERS Strange things are afoot. Phil (Adam Korson) wakes up to what the closed captioning calls “eerie vocalizing”. He is downstairs, and his husband Anthony (Paul Ewan Wilson) is nowhere to be seen. …
