![]() In Heart of Stone, Gal Gadot plays Rachel Stone AKA Nine of Hearts, a super-spy working for a mysterious organization known as The Charter, embedded undercover with the boring normal spies in MI6. Stars: Gal Gadot, Jamie Dornan, Alia Bhatt, Sophie Okonedo, Matthias Schweighöfer For both Connelly fans and newbies, this will be a fun watch. Still, the casting is clever, the performances are solid, and the moral (and musical) parallels with Bosch are tight. At the same time, though, between four major criminal arcs and like four thousand interpersonal ones, it occasionally stretches itself too thin. The Lincoln Lawyer wants, unabashedly, to be more primetime than prestige. Meaning, while the story Harry Bosch belongs to might be a sun-soaked noir, the one Mickey Haller belongs to is mostly just sun-soaked. Kelley as series creator and The Good Wife’s Ted Humphrey as showrunner, The Lincoln Lawyer is as much froth as it is high-level crime. That said, don’t expect anything like the same aesthetic here. ![]() Stars: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Neve Campbell, Becki Newton, Angus Sampson, Jazz RaycoleĪ densely packed thrillride following the trials (both emotional and literal) of L.A.’s best criminal defense attorney, Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer brings, if not an actual bit of Paste-favorite Bosch to a whole new audience, then at least the Connelly playbook. It’s a worthy entry into the genre of art that makes the point we need to hear the most: the unrestrained and unstoppable momentum unleashed by the urge to make greater and greater profits is the single most dangerous force in modern life. On the spectrum of social contagion art, it belongs on a spot much closer to The Big Short than it does to WeCrashed, and to the extent that there are still eyes to be opened and outrage to be mustered in regard to the opioid crisis, it will do the job. If this is a documentary disguised as drama, and the task was to tell the story of the opioid crisis in narrative form in six one-hour episodes, Netflix has a success on its hands. The greatest achievement here is the balance of the three goals this is a brisk, fun watch, which sounds strange considering the subject matter, but the crucial entertainment factor is present in spades. And despite the necessary dramatizations, and even the occasional scene of attractive sales reps drinking champagne and dancing in clubs with that sweet opioid money, this is a faithful retelling in the broad sense. Patrick Radden Keefe’s 2021 book Empire of Pain shone perhaps the brightest light on the Sackler legacy, and this six-part miniseries, directed by Peter Berg ( Friday Night Lights, The Leftovers) is based on that text. ![]() This is the story, now increasingly well known, of the Sackler pharmaceutical family, Purdue Pharma and its drug oxycontin, and the deadly opioid epidemic that devastated-and continues to devastate-America. Happily, the new Netflix limited series Painkiller largely manages to avoid that last pitfall. Resist the urge to make the original sin-in most cases, the rise of the company that unleashed the social ill-look too sexy. Do so while still making an entertaining viewing product, because without that, your reach is severely limited. Successfully educate the public on what is inevitably a complex topic, using shorthand where necessary but without sacrificing accuracy. To make a TV show or a movie about a social ill spurred on by naked capitalistic greed, there are three worthy goals to pursue: 1. Stars: Matthew Broderick, Uzo Aduba, Taylor Kitsch, Dina Shihabi, West Duchovny, Clark Gregg Here are the entries for August 14, 2023, of the five most popular TV shows and five most popular movies on Netflix. ![]() The list of Netflix’s daily Top 10 Most Popular indicates an omnivorous appetite among the Netflix faithful, from reality shows to prestige TV, animated kids shows to docu-series of every stripe. With the advent of the Netflix Top 10, though, we can now get at least one little peek behind the curtain. Even directors and showrunners have had a hard time gauging if what they’d put out into the world was reaching its intended audience. Netflix has been notoriously stingy with its data. ![]()
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