Presumed Innocent – Season 1 Review

That’s right, only a month after the premiere of the Apple+ series Presumed Innocent aired, it received another season. I was momentarily stumped as to how they would continue on, but it’s doable. It just won’t have any source material to go with it. If you’re wondering, yes, this is an adaptation of a novel, but it’s the first televised one. Harrison Ford starred in a film of the same name back in 1990.

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Book Review: Middle of the Night by Riley Sager

After Riley Sager’s abysmal The House Across the Lake, I kind of have trust issues with him, though his last book and the latest, Middle of the Night, have him squarely back in the same camp as before. Actually, I’d like to think that Sager was able to get just a little bit of the supernatural shoe-horned in here. A compromise I can live with.

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True Detective: Night Country Review

You know, I’ve owned the first season of True Detective since it was released and I’ve still never watched the whole thing. I know it’s the best season out there, and it was basically at the very beginning of the reintroduction of the “golden age of television,” but I just haven’t mustered the desire to finish it yet. And for whatever reason, two bad seasons later I decided to tune in for Night Country.

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Apples Never Fall – Miniseries Review

Back in the day I was real hot and heavy with Liane Moriarty’s books. I’ve since fallen off, which is why I never read the book that this miniseries is based off of. Both the book and the series share the same name, Apples Never Fall, but I actually won’t be able to weigh in on how closely the series sticks to the source material.

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Book Review: Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney

I squeaked through one more book before I high-tailed it to my local library to get the sequel to Ellie Marney’s None Shall Sleep, Some Shall Break. I think this is also the quickest I read through anything this year. Usually, I take my sweet time, reading about fifty pages a day, but I just couldn’t get through this fast enough!

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The Night Logan Woke Up

Ahhh! I have been searching high and low for this Xavier Dolan series, The Night Logan Woke Up, after watching the first two episodes during Sundance this past January. Finally, the French Canadian series found its US home on Netflix.

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Book Review: Mister Magic by Kiersten White

I have to say, sometimes compelling cover art is all it takes. Well, that and the two other books I was looking for at my local library weren’t on the shelves. Thus, Kiersten White’s latest novel, Mister Magic, with it’s hot pink sleeve and rainbow static television was tempting enough to pick up an read the blurb. And then that blurb sounded creepy as hell, so I was all in!

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