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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 3 – SPOILERS ⁓ Charlie (Zariella Langford) accidentally finds the two handguns that Tina (Eva Everett Irving) keeps under lock and key, and they remind her of recent unpleasant events. Charlie tries to …
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES – Episode 104 – SPOILERS ⁓ Emily (Tattiawana Jones) and Tom (Reed Diamond) sit in a car outside the Lee family residence, talking about music. “You can’t compare Celine Dion to Mariah Carey,” says Tom. “They’re totally …
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES Season 1 Episode 7 – SPOILERS ⁓ Xander (Vincent Tran), displeases his creator Darros by inadvertently allowing Jules (Amanda Fix) to escape. Jules joins him in a “return to the womb” experience with the printer that created …
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES – Season 1 Episode 8 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Kira (Keeley Hawes) meets Felix (Jordan Gavaris) at his art exhibit and tells him all about the three copies of Eleanor. Felix understands. “Kira, when Colin got sick,’ …
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES – Episodes 1.9 and 1.10 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Delphine (Evelyne Brochu) drops by to reassure Kira (Keeley Hawes) and to offer her own philosophy of identity: “It doesn’t matter how you came to be. What matters …
Rachel Nichols (Kiera Cameron*) is Madeleine, eldest daughter of Charles Abernathy (Bob Gunton), and twin sister of C.J. (David Walton) in THE INHERITANCE, a horror thriller directed by Alejandro Brugués. Charles, a billionaire nearing his 75th birthday, unexpectedly invites his …
JENNY GREEN – Dead Boy Detectives – Briana Cuoco From her first moment onscreen, it is clear that Jenny, a goth butcher who rents a room to Crystal, is essential to everything. When Crystal decides to ask her ex-boyfriend for …
THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS – created by David Farr – (limited spoilers) ⁓ This is the third film adaptation of John Wyndham’s novel and it’s a good one. The screenplay is intricate and subtle, and is interpreted vividly by three directors: …
Steven Strait (James Holden, captain of the Rocinante) is Dylan in BODY LANGUAGE, which stars Christina Milian as Mariana, Director of Personnel for a major security firm. After her engagement to Nick (Gregg Wayans) is announced, her fiance’s mysterious friend …
It’s a trippy show based on the comics by Magdalene Visaggio, and all of its adventures might possibly happen entirely inside one character’s head. Twenty-five-year-old dethroned Queen Eldaya of Arriopa (Adriyan Rae) is an itenerant scavenger, a finder of hard-to-get …
