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Scenes After a Marriage -Apple TV- Sweden- is a limited series  chronicling the potential uncoupling of a married couple with two young children. In each episode they meet at a roadside café midway between their two homes, she in Sweden and he in Copenhagen where he’s running a successful new restaurant. Its for the purpose of handing over their children for visitation to each parent. During these...

BLUE LIGHTS Blue Lights” set in Belfast, is a tough emotionally honest cop drama. The crimes are mainly ones perpetrated by the entrenched gangs that have been controlling swathes of the city for decades. Over 3 seasons we follow three probationary officers as they try to keep the peace in explosive neighborhoods. Setting it in Belfast provides a rich layer to the story as it intermingles politics...

One Day in October- This 7 part Israeli series chronicles 7 different true stories of how a varied group of people experienced the tragedy of October 7th in Israel. One episode depicts 2 teen girls hiding for hours in a PortoSan at the music festival. Another concerns the heroic actions of an Orthodox volunteer ambulance driver who risks his life to rescue wounded survivors. The stories are unexpe...

Envious-( Netflix, Argentina) Attractive, successful 40-year-old Vicky is a force to be reckoned with. But she’s her own worst enemy as she tries to find happiness with a man who ticks off all the boxes. What Vicky learns is no one ticks off all the boxes and her quest is more about what she needs to do to understand herself.   The Ladies Companion - (Netflix-Spain) A feisty young woman becomes th...

Adolescence - a powerful, groundbreaking drama which centers around a 13 year-old-boy and his family when it is revealed that the boy has stabbed a fellow girl classmate to death. Layers of the boys personality are stripped away in order to understand his motivation. Also paramount are the effects on the family and those around him in their effort to understand what led up to this heinous act  The...

Get Millie Black is a detective thriller set in Kingston, Jamaica. Mille is a brilliant Jamaican born Scotland yard detective who asks too many questions and doesn’t take no for an answer. When she returns to Jamaica she must solve two cases one involving a missing teenage girl and the other a potentially trafficked young boy. Complicating matters is Millie’s need to reconcile with her transgender...

BLACK DOVES has us believe there is an elite organization that enlists spies and assassins  to steal state secrets from any country and sell them to anyone else…busineses, other governments, whoever. Working for this group are a spy who is the lovely wife of an English politician and her friend, an assassin with a conscience. How both balance their secret and public lives and the toll it takes is...

Turkish series, THANK YOU NEXT, a hybrid rom com is about a successful headstrong thirty something lawyer Leyla, who is recovering from her first love’s betrayal. Eventually she will have to make a choice between her ex, a handsome chef and a charismatic businessman. Along the way Leyla’s surrounded by a group of friends who while deciphering their own complicated relationships are planning Leyla’...

In VIGIL, an intrepid Scottish police investigator is helicoptered onto a nuclear sub upon which a murder has taken place. Complicating this issue is that it appears Russian subs are trailing this English vessel. Meanwhile more people turn up dead. There are eco terrorists, espionage, forbidden romances and all manner of complications for the investigator to tackle… all while she is also strugglin...

BABY REINDEER( Netflix)-England- is a black comedy thriller based on the real life of comedian Richard Gadd. In the series Gadd plays Donny, a struggling comedian working as a bartender. One night into the bar comes Martha, a lonely woman who claims to be a lawyer. He offers her a free cup of tea. Big mistake. Martha, a large person also has large needs and desires which she focuses on the hapless...

I Hate Suzie-A black comedy centered around  TV actress Suzie Pickles whose life is upended when her phone is hacked and a scandalous video of her is released to the public compromising her marriage and career. Suzie goes to great lengths to get her life back on track while increasingly both she and her life fall apart. The only thing saving her may be her best friend and agent but it is Suzie who...

MONSIEUR SPADE- picks up legendary detective Sam Spade living a comfy life in the South of France. He’s called on to deliver a teenage girl to her scoundrel father who disappears. Soon nuns are murdered, conspiracies abound and scores of factions are after a young Algerian boy with unusual talents.   EXPATS- The lives of three women intersect in the insular community of expats living in Hong Kong...

CRIMINAL RECORD finds two detectives pitted against each other. They’re working on associated cases, one having to do with a 911 call of a woman fearful that her boyfriend will kill her. But in that call she also reveals that a man in prison for killing his girlfriend is innocent. The two detectives are very different kinds of cops. One is middle aged, old school and believes the end justifies the...

ANNIKA A quirky female detective must solve murders around Glasgow Scotland. Breaking the 4th wall, she shares her unvarnished views on subjects sparked by her investigations, including Moby Dick, Shakespeare and Greek tragedy. Complicating her life are a sullen teenage daughter and her eclectic but accomplished team.  LITTLE BIRD This quiet drama chronicles the odyssey undertaken by Esther, a sof...

In LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, set in the 50s,  a talented young female would-be chemist battles a male dominated science world while trying to make her way professionally and raise a daughter. Unexpectedly she gains  fame when she hosts a cooking show.  Interview with LESSONS IN CHEMISTY costume designer for, Mirren Gordon-Crozier, whose credits also includon WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, BURIAL and THE GLA...

The Sixth Commandment based on a true crime is set in an idyllic English town. Peter, a  closeted and devout gay professor meets Ben, a charming, handsome student who seems to fall in love with Peter. And then Peter dies, leaving his estate to Ben who now ingratiates himself into the life of Peter's neighbor, Ann, another senior citizen and retired academic. She too dies, leaving Ben her esta...

“LUPIN”  brings back Assane, a master thief and disguises who has adopted the persona of the much beloved hero of  a series of crime novels. Previously it was thought Lupin had died but In this Third season he returns to Paris very much alive. He must use all his skills to combat a vengeful specter from his past who not only kidnaps Assane’s long-lost mother but also threatens his wife and beloved...

In SLEEPING DOG, Mike Atlas, a once successful cop, is sleeping on the streets, estranged from his family and haunted by having been unable to prevent  a terrorist attack.   But something jumpstarts the traumatized Mike when the brother of a wrongfully accused convict tries to make sense of his brother's questionable prison suicide.   In RIVER, an emotionally withdrawn  detective  has recentl...

Queen of the South- La Reyna del Sur - In this Mexican action drama, a poor but gorgeous young woman falls in love with the wrong guy and winds up running from a drug cartel. Then using her wits, she becomes the head of her own drug cartel. Lots of over-the-top violence, treachery, romance and some gorgeous costuming. It’s a tele-novella with great production values. Hijack -In a word. Idris Elba....

THE HOUR, a two season drama set in the 1950s, looks at the lives and loves of three journalists working for the BBC as  they create The Hour, a new kind of show for that time…a 60 Minutes with real investigative reporting. Both seasons interweave world-shaping events such as the Suez Canal and the establishment of nuclear bases in England. As The Hour is created there is romance, murder and of co...

GHOSTS OF BEIRUT -  a spy thriller about the US and Israel joint operation to eliminate a brilliant terrorist who was responsible for the murders of hundreds, if not thousands, of people, both citizens, diplomats and military alike, who he saw as combatants in the battle for control of, not only Israel and Palestine, but of the Middle East. THE RESTAURANT- the saga of the owners and staff of an up...

Sherwood is a murder mystery based on real events in Nottinghamshire England but the roots to the drama lie in the miners’ strike of 1983 which  created a bitter rift in the community. When the leader of one of the previously warring factions is killed, decades-old rivalries and resentment leads to a final reckoning for the entire town. Drops of God pits a young man and woman against each other as...

DROPS OF GOD -( French/Japanese Apple+)is set in the elite world of wine. A powerful wine expert, dies leaving behind a fortune and his valuable wine collection. But who inherits it? There is a 3-part wine challenge involving which pits the expert's  estranged daughter against  the heir to a diamond fortune who became Leger’s protegee. Set in glossy Tokyo and the lush wine country of both Fra...

NEWS FLASH: We will now be sending you new episodes every two weeks. On those Fridays! A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, an espionage thriller based on real events, is the story of a privileged Cambridge-educated British spy Kim Philby who secretly  worked for 3 decades as a Soviet double agent. It is a tale of spying and double-crossing but it is mainly a tale of two friends, Philby and his fellow aristocrati...

Money Heist - is an action-packed thriller which portrays how a gang of men and women pull off the robbery of the Royal Mint of Spain then come back to rob the Bank of Spain. The gang of compelling misfits is led by a brilliant master-mind called The Professor who concocts intricate schemes to pull off the heist.  But it’s the sophisticated plot, fascinating characters and sharp direction that mak...