Circling back to the bloody crime scene on the ninth floor of a posh Manhattan apartment building, the no-nonsense police detective encounters a motley crew of amateur sleuths: a 20-something woman flanked by two men in their 70s, all residents of the Upper West Side property. They engage the detective about forensics until she stops them. “Look, this is suicide,”…
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Hulu’s latest horror movie, “False Positive,” is a gory disappointment whose real terror comes from the film’s treatment of abortion. In the film, Lucy (Ilana Glazer, who also wrote and produced) and her husband Adrian (Justin Theroux) have been struggling to start a family for two years, when they reach out to a fertility doctor and Adrian’s former mentor (Pierce…
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Aidy Bryant’s testament to the independent modern woman, “Shrill,” comes to a close with the third and final season now airing on Hulu. Bryant’s Annie Easton is Mary Tyler Moore in a plus-sized mini dress, taking on the world with a smile and a can-do attitude, balanced by a perpetual feeling that she’s being judged for being overweight. Like Mary,…
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