Where Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler turned the plight of a washed-up grappler into a Sisyphean struggle in spandex, GLOW , which was inspired by a real-life wrestling women's wrestling promotion from the '80s, takes a sunnier but still no-holds-barred approach. Community's Alison Brie excels as an actress who gets cast by a washed-up filmmaker Marc Maron to play the villain in the rag-tag operation, but, like producer Jenji Kohan's Orange Is the New Black , it's the side characters, like Britney Young's second-generation brawler Machu Picchu, who really help this show get over.
It's one of the few pieces of pop culture that actually captures this 'fake' sport's very real appeal. More specifically: the titular Good Place, something like heaven minus all the religious stuff. Things go swimmingly until Eleanor realizes she's been mistaken for someone else -- a glitch in the system that sends the utopia into a downward spiral.
It's tons of fun seeing Bell and her onscreen soulmate Chidi William Jackson Harper try to fool everyone into believing this Eleanor can be a good person and deserves to stay. As we noted last year, 'By the time you get to the incredible season finale, it's clear you've been sent straight up to TV heaven.
Netflix users of a certain age have likely overlooked this dramedy from Marta Kauffman Friends and Howard J. Morris The Starter Wife , about two septuagenarian friends Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin who shack up together after their husbands Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston announce they're in love and intend to marry. With notes of The Odd Couple and The Brady Bunch -- both couples have grown kids as equally knocked out by the news -- Grace and Frankie is down-to-earth viewing that's rich with observational wit on the progressive notion of being true to one's identity, and the time-worn cliche that everyone gets older with age.
If you've indulged in the low-key, picture-perfect comedies of Nancy Meyers It's Complicated , Something's Gotta Give , give this one a try. A police sergeant Sarah Lancashire is investigating the kidnapping of a local businessman's daughter by conspiring West Yorkshire locals; one of them is connected to the rape of her own daughter, who committed suicide eight years earlier.
Tension builds at crime scenes and in familial moments, as Catherine swallows her suffering to parent her daughter's illegitimate son. The series leaves room for flawed characters to make mistakes: Catherine isn't Sherlock Holmes, nor are her culprits Moriarty types.
On this show, murders happen by accident -- which is even scarier than premeditation. Maria Bamford's semi-autobiographical, surreal spin on mental illness in Hollywood was a summer sleeper hit for Netflix. The comedian's self-aware hijinks share obvious DNA with Arrested Development : Mitch Hurwitz and Pam Brady are executive producers; there are sight gags, wordplay, and mockery of Los Angeles idiocy galore; and it features countless comedy-world cameos, extended fantasy sequences, and genuine self-introspection.
It'll take you a few episodes to get invested, or even to wrap your head around WTF you're watching. But once you're hooked, you're hooked. Now that streaming is standard, you don't have to surf cable for a late-night insomnia salve or a hungover Sunday time-killer. You can drop in on Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson whenever you desire the simple satisfaction of fighting for justice in an unjust world.
Idris Elba looks really good in a suit. There are plenty of reasons to watch Luther , but The Wire actor's calming sartorial presence has to be what draws most fans into this psychologically rich British detective drama. It's a cat-and-mouse game worthy of Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling.
Plus, the whole Idris Elba-in-suits thing. Matthew Weiner knew where it was all going from the start -- and the AMC show's creator even warned us in the third-season premiere, via a Don Draper line to Roger Sterling: 'I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I've already been. The series spans many eras as we travel throughout time: the s change the people around Don, and the second half of the final season, set in , is momentous. Betty confronts her own mortality.
Peggy discovers that true independence isn't as clean-cut as she thinks. Pete breaks his life in two so that he can put it back together again. And then there's Don Draper: well-meaning, self-destructive, creative genius Don Draper, who dreams big and falls hard over and over and over again.
Mad Men asserted itself as the Great American Television Show by being hyper-specific -- designed down to the desk stapler -- and universally opaque. What begins like a standard-issue Dateline episode about Steven Avery, a rural Wisconsin ne'er-do-well wrongfully convicted of rape, turns, over the course of its 10 episodes, into a sharp, twin rebuke of unchecked law enforcement and the entire criminal justice system.
As the documentary team behind this essential Netflix binge, which rivals The Staircase and Serial season one in its capacity to inspire righteous anger and rabbit-hole quests for the truth, details without exceeding skill, justice for Avery and his nephew, tragically swept up in the deplorable affair, has most definitely not been served.
This one is the bleakest on the list, so we advise you spread out your binge as much as possible. This eight-episode miniseries which may or may not spawn follow-up series -- we'll see! But sometimes you just can't stop yourself from bingeing a nicely paced true-crime dramatization with unlikely actors in the crucial roles, like we have here with Avatar 's Sam Worthington as a dogged FBI agent who uses linguistics to track down the Unabomber , Avengers: Age of Ultron 's Paul Bettany as the hermetic, manifesto-writing mad bomber , and Party Down 's Jane Lynch as Janet Reno!
David Fincher loves serial killers. The director of Seven , Zodiac , and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo launched Netflix into the world of original television when he applied his dark, brooding aesthetic to a different kind of sociopath: obscenely ambitious politician Francis Underwood, focal point of House of Cards. But where House of Cards feels a bit like a desperate child crying out for attention -- 'Look at me!
Wendy Carr Anna Torv as they establish a division of the Bureau tasked with solving a 'new kind of crime' that lacks what most law enforcers think of as rational motives.
In short, they're inventing what will become the famous 'FBI profiler' department, responsible for ferreting out criminal sociopaths, but Mindhunter 's success arises from its ability to generate what serial killers lack: empathy and nuance.
You feel not only for the agents and their decidedly second-priority romantic partners, but also for the killers, some of whom possess knife-edge intelligence and a caustic self-awareness, while others inspire near-instant revulsion. Add in the time-tested conventions of true crime mysteries, plus a steadfast unwillingness to write another FBI hagiography, and Mindhunter is highly bingeable, yet offers a depth that rewards slow-burn viewing.
Could a new crew of comedians revive the effortless magic of public-acess-born Mystery Science Theater With the nerdy Jonah Ray The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail locked in the new spaceship, once again backed by Crow and Tom Servo but with new voices, Hampton Yount and Baron Vaughn , spearheaded by former Daily Show head writer Elliot Kalan, and produced by original host Joel Hodgson, the new incarnation pelts jokes at late-night schlock and half-assed blockbusters with relentless force.
There's a musicality to the jokes in MST3K: The Return , punctuating every bit of dead air in the god forsaken movie choices, and everyone is at the top of their game. This thriller is a treat for history buffs, unpacking the horrifying, drug-laden history of Colombia during the reign of legendary kingpin Pablo Escobar.
As Escobar, Wagner Moura is both terrifying and captivating, and his opposition, two DEA agents fighting their way through a convoluted mystery, give a scarily real sense of the American efforts to end the war on drugs. Moura is SO convincing that I'd probably spit on him if I ran into him on the street on behalf of the Colombian people -- he's that good at being bad. Narcos ' mix of archival footage and contemporary fictionalization keeps you engaged, and reminds you that a literal genocide had to happen just so yuppies could blow coke in the Hamptons during the '80s only kind of kidding.
Amid the Homeland s and Zero Dark Thirty s of the world, it's easy to forget that the United States' decades-long global war on terror is just that: global. The coalition of nations that fought with America in Afghanistan included Norway, and it's in a foreign camp that the show begins with a tense military operation to take out a suspected suicide bomber.
Make no mistake, though: This is not a war series, but a political one, focusing on the treacherous ripples terrorism sets off through national politics. In this case, the political implications are told through the lives Erling Riiser Aksel Hennie , who served in Afghanistan, and his wife, Johanne Tuva Novotny , a government worker who must navigate the business interests related to Norway's involvement in the region.
If Stranger Things was a little too basic for you, give this wonky sci-fi series from co-creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij a shot. The otherworldly Marling stars as Prairie, a blind woman who returns to society after years in captivity and quickly starts a youth group with some troubled teens. It gets crazier from there. Yes, there's interpretive dance. Yes, there are weird flashbacks to Russia. Yes, it will leave you scratching your head and searching the internet for clues.
But sometimes the crazy shows are the ones you love the most. Go ahead and try to prevent your brain from firing off loads of oxytocin as soon as those opening piano notes hit your eardrums. As scenes from Scranton and the Dunder Mifflin office play across the screen, you'll find it difficult to resist falling into a wormhole of nostalgia, knowing all along that SPOILER Jim and Pam get together in the end.
If you're watching for the first time, you'll understand why so many people fell for Michael Scott and the soft-bellied, straight-faced humor that reinvented network television. Like The Ranch , its red state cousin, One Day at a Time is a throwback family sitcom in a world that can be unkind to audience laughter, big comedic performances, and that stage-bound multi-camera look. But single-camera purists should get over their hang-ups.
This clever remake of Norman Lear's '70s hit about a single mother raising two teenage daughters is more charming and funny than many of its seemingly 'edgier' peers. Anchored by a lived-in performance from Justina Machado Six Feet Under , the show finds familiar laughs in the way generations clash and families wage war, but it's also culturally specific, socially engaged, and leisurely paced in a way that makes it stand out from your average CBS family show -- or Netflix's own dire Fuller House.
The scripted original that put Netflix on the map sorry, House of Cards! It's easy to see why early critics compared Ozark to Breaking Bad : Drug money and morally gray characters abound in both.
But as Marty Byrde -- a brilliant Chicago-based financial advisor who moves his family to Missouri's Ozarks on a life-or-death deadline to wash truck loads of cash for Mexico's second biggest drug cartel -- Jason Bateman never goes full Heisenberg. In fact, his character's main motivation for doing anything is to protect his family. Along with Bateman, Laura Linney Marty's wife , Jason Butler Harner an undercover fed , and Julia Garner one sketchy family's substitute don deliver particularly memorable turns to help make this slow-burn work wonders over its tense plus hour runtime.
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Luc Besson. Marc Shmuger , Luc Besson. Jun 21, wide. Aug 27, Summit Entertainment, Lionsgate Films. Sasha Luss Anna. Luke Evans Alex Tchenkov. Cillian Murphy Lenny Miller. Dame Helen Mirren Olga. Lera Abova Maud. Sasha Petrov Piotr. Nikita Pavlenko Vlad. Anna Krippa Nika. Aleksey Maslodudov Jimmy. Eric Godon Vassiliev. Ivan Franek Mossan. Jean-Baptiste Puech Samy. Adrian Can John. Eric Lampaert Nato. Mikhail Safronov Anna's Father.
Luc Besson Director. Luc Besson Screenwriter. Marc Shmuger Producer. Luc Besson Producer. Jason Cloth Executive Producer. Thierry Arbogast Cinematographer. Julien Rey Film Editor. Eric Serra Original Music. Hugues Tissandier Production Designer. Gilles Boillot Art Director. Evelyne Tissandier Set Decoration. Swan Pham Casting. View All Critic Reviews Mar 23, Luc Besson knows how to direct action and this film is no exception but the film skips ahead and backwards and it gets hard to keep up.
Three hundred people easily die in this film and the violence is fairly graphic. Nikita Pavlenko Vlad as Vlad. Anna Krippa Nika as Nika. Aleksey Maslodudov Jimmy as Jimmy. Eric Godon Vassiliev as Vassiliev. Ivan Franek Mossan as Mossan. Jean-Baptiste Puech Samy as Samy. Adrian Can John as John.
Andrew Howard Oleg as Oleg. Jan Oliver Schroeder Frederick as Frederick. Louise Parker Sonia as Sonia. Sasha Beliaeva Petra as Petra. Luc Besson. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Anna Sasha Luss is a young beautiful girl who managed to make a career in the fashion world. More recently, she was a simple model from Moscow, but in a very short time, she was able to enter the elite. Once she entered the hotel of an influential and very dangerous person, after which a whole mountain of corpses was discovered there.
The girl is being interrogated by special services, but she has absolutely nothing to tell them on this fact.
She looks scared, and no one suspects her. Anna goes free and begins preparing for a new business. Under the guise of a fragile beauty, is hiding the world's most dangerous assassin, who has not yet misfired.
Never Make the Weapon the Target. Rated R for strong violence, language, and some sexual content. Did you know Edit.
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