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TRANSATLANTIC – Review by Susan Granger

August 22, 2023August 25, 2023 Susan Granger Anna Winger, Corey Stoll, Cory Michael Smith, Daniel Handler, Gillian Jacobs, netflix series, Transatlantic

Set in 1940, the Netflix series Transatlantic follows activist journalist Varian Fry (Cory Michael Smith), who flew to the port city of Marseilles with a list of endangered European artists and intellectuals to save from Nazi imprisonment. Functioning under the aegis of the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC), Fry tried to work within France’s strict bureaucracy, obtaining legal visas as quickly as possible without endangering America’s isolationist position of neutrality.

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OZARK Season Four – Review by Susan Granger

May 16, 2022May 20, 2022 Susan Granger janet mcteer, jason bateman, julia garner, laura linney, netflix series, Ozark, Ozark season four, Skylar Gaertner, Sofia Hublitz

The murder and mayhem that characterized the poplar Netflix series Ozark has come to an end – as season four concludes the Bryde family’s compelling crime drama. So it’s a perfect time to binge-watch. After moving from Chicago to a lakefront house in the Ozarks, Marty (Jason Bateman) and Wendy (Laura Linney) Bryde, along with their adolescent offspring – Jonah (Skylar Gaertner) and Charlotte (Sofia Hublitz) – pursue lives of corruption and crime.

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LUPIN – Review by Susan Granger

February 28, 2022March 5, 2022 Susan Granger Ludivine Sagnier, Lupin, Maurice Leblanc, netflix series, Omar Sy

If you’re looking for a action series to stream, try the crime caper “Lupin,” celebrated as #1 in France. Either English-subtitled or dubbed into English, it’s Netflix’s third most successful global launch – after “Bridgerton” and” “The Witcher.” The ‘gentleman thief’ Arsene Lupin is a classic character created in 1905 by French novelist/short-story writer Maurice Leblanc, who serialized his adventures in the popular science magazine Je Sais Tout.

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SWEET TOOTH – Review by Susan Granger

June 22, 2021June 27, 2021 Susan Granger Dania Ramiriez, James Brolin, Jim Mickle, netflix series, Stefania LaVie Owen, Sweet Tooth, Will Forte

If you’re looking for a Netflix series to stream, I highly recommend Sweet Tooth. As you might guess from the improbable title, it’s an unusual, post-apocalyptic tale, one that tugs at your heart. As the narrator (James Brolin) explains, in the decade after the ‘Great Crumble,’ when much of humanity succumbed to the deadly H5G9 virus, human mothers began to give birth to half-animal infants.

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HALSTON – Review by Susan Granger

May 25, 2021May 30, 2021 Susan Granger biopics, Daniel Minahan, Ewan McGregor, halston, Kelly Bishop, netflix series, Roy Halston Frowick

Have you ever stood in the check-out line at the supermarket, skimming through the tabloids on display? It’s like gorging yourself on salacious gossip and juicy innuendo. That’s the feeling you get watching this new five-part Netflix mini-series, starring Ewan McGregor as Roy Halston Frowick, who becomes one of America’s most famous designers.