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'Ozark' cements its place among Netflix's best dramas with its final episodes

4 years 5 months ago
For anyone inclined initially to dismiss "Ozark" as "Breaking Bad Lite," the Netflix drama has exceeded all expectations, steadily building toward a final run reinforcing the idea that getting into business with very bad people is going to have consequences. The fourth season has also become a family affair, adding a deeper hook to the Byrde saga that delivers tension right up until the last frame.

'Under the Banner of Heaven' flies high

4 years 5 months ago
Two limited crime series with literary underpinnings yield very different verdicts, with "Under the Banner of Heaven" emerging as an engrossing fact-based drama set around the Mormon Church during the 1980s, while "Shining Girls" turns a time-traveling serial-killer plot into a vaguely incomprehensible thriller for Apple TV+.

'The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe' revisits her life and death 60 years later through unheard tapes

4 years 5 months ago
Hello again, Norma Jean, as the 60th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death brings renewed opportunities to revisit her life and legacy, without really bringing anything substantially new to the party. "The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes" has one hook in recorded interviews with those who knew her, but offsets that with a clumsy device to illustrate those conversations.
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