Hulu’s ‘Sasquatch’ Tells a Winding Crime Story: TV Review

Remember when Bekah Martinez was reported missing during her stint on The Bachelor? She does too — and the backstory is even more complicated than fans might expect.

Corrie actress Mollie Gallagher has spoken out about the shocking hate crime scenes which left her character hospitalised and made her ‘want to cry.’

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticWe may soon begin to run low on famous cases from the past to reframe into true-crime series. Following on recent series about the Night Stalker and the Ted Bundy murders, Netflix now drops “The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness,” about the Son of Sam killings in New York City in the late 1970s.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn a very early scene in Peacock’s new series “Girls5eva,” a rising rap star is looking for something he can sample inexpensively. His producer, before directing him to a forgotten hit by a pop quintet, suggests “anything by the Stones: Sharon or Oliver.”It’s that kind of joke — so briskly delivered, it only registers as the next one arrives — that defines a Tina Fey-produced show.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticBefore her notoriety as one of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New York City,” Bethenny Frankel emerged from a very different style of reality TV. In 2005, she competed on “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart,” a show designed to burnish Stewart’s image just after her release from federal prison, and, after having done that, to choose for Stewart a successor figure.

The true pleasure ofThe Outside Storydoesn’t come from its heartwarming message about community or its nostalgic rendering of a mask-less, pre-pandemic New York City, but from Brian Tyree Henry’s exceptional performance in his first big-screen lead role. A few years ago, Henry awed viewers as Paper Boi, the moody, low-key rapper in Donald Glover’s FX hitAtlanta.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAllie Fox is a man with a lot of anger to throw around. Like Jackson Pollock using bile instead of paint, the lead of Apple TV Plus’ limited series “The Mosquito Coast” spreads his rage everywhere — including and especially on the lives of his family, whom he uproots for an adventure in Mexico.

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According to TMZ, Jackson, 23, will appear in at least one episode of the beloved show. Creator Ryan Murphy teased the 10th “Horror” season back in March with an Instagram video showing off the title card.Murphy’s muse Sarah Paulson will be starring in the series, as well as fan favorites Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, Finn Wittrock, Angelica Ross, Leslie Grossman and Billie Lourd.

AMC and UK’s Alibi have rounded out the the three leads of crime drama series Ragdoll, with Henry Lloyd-Hughes (The Irregulars, Killing Eve) and Thalissa Teixeira (Too Close, Trigonometry) joining previously announced Lucy Hale. The series, which begins production today in London, hails from Sid Gentle Films, the British production company behind Killing Eve. Toby MacDonald (Old Boys, The Duchess) and Niall MacCormick (The Victim, The Song of Lunch) will direct.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHenry Lloyd-Hughes and Thalissa Teixeira will star alongside Lucy Hale in the AMC-Alibi series “Ragdoll,” Variety has learned.The six-episode show, which was ordered to series back in February, is set to begin production on April 19 in London.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVA few years ago, before director-producer Joe Berlinger embarked upon making a docu series and narrative feature about Ted Bundy, he asked his daughters what they knew about the serial killer.

Also Read: Paul Dano to Join Steven Spielberg's Childhood Film as Director's Fictional Dad“There is nothing like storytelling to foster connections and help us understand life’s deepest truths,” Spielberg and Capshaw said in a joint statement.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Big Shot” doesn’t seem to fit among the most-heralded new series on Disney Plus. Unlike “The Mandalorian” or “WandaVision” or even another family-oriented sports series like “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers,” it is not attached to any existing intellectual property.But calling it original might be a stretch.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Cruel Summer” has set up an intriguing challenge for itself. Each episode of the new Freeform drama series depicts a single day over the course of three years — 1993, 1994 and 1995 — in order to convey the long-tail effects of a kidnapping.

Joseph Siravo, best known for his roles as Tony Soprano’s father in The Sopranos, Fred Goldman in American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson and stage musical Jersey Boys, has died aged 64, according to family.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe fissures racism has carved into American life, and American lives, are so surreally deep that to convey them, artists must use the tools of exaggeration that genre provides.

“Doing something great is overrated,” a cynical and embittered Mare Sheehan says at a crucial moment in HBO’s “Mare Of Easttown,” an outstanding and deeply human drama and crime procedural.