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 the live-in chaperone to 3 sisters in colorful 19th century Madrid. The cheeky series involves ...
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 Leopard- A remake of a book and movie which, in the 19th century, takes a look a...
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 sister as well as her conflicted detective partner who faces his own demons. Inspired by ...
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 the core of the series. LA MAQUINA chronicles the friendship and conflict between two men in...
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’s strategy to identify which of the three men is really the one for her. SAY NOTHING- This 9 part...
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 struggling with PTSD from a tragic accident and a complicated new romance with a fellow officer. &nbs...
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 Donny. Almost instantly she is obsessed with Donny and infiltrates every aspect of his life. Cur...
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 must save herself. The Gentlemen- Action comedy from director Guy Ritchie. Two sons o...
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 during the 2014 political unrest. Two are super privileged with servants whose lives continu...
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 means. The other, a young African American woman, refuses to accept the questionable tacti...
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 soft spoken Montreal Jewish lawyer from an indigenous background who, as a child, had been adop...
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 GLASS CASTLE. In 30 COINS, a thriller/ horror film/ romance, several unlikely allie...
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 estate. What’s wrong with this picture. In Nada, a jolly, but spoiled Argentinian restaurant critic f...
“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 teenage son.. “DON'T LEAVE ME” is set in Venice, very much a character in this my...
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 recently witnessed his beloved partner’s murder. He’s determined to find her ki...
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. He plays a tough successful business ‘fixer’ type who’s on a plane hijacked by a determined gang ...
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 course sharp humor. BLACK MIRROR is an anthology series combining reality, fantas...
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 upscale family-owned Swedish restaurant as both restaurant and personnel adjust to the ...
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 they battle to win three contests created to test their wine expertise. The prize? A wine c...
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 France and Italy, it’s part drama, part romance, part crash course in wine. THE DIPLOMAT ( Eng...