Lady in the Lake is a 2024 Apple TV+ limited series created and directed by Alma Har'el and adapted from Laura Lippman's acclaimed novel. Set in 1960s Baltimore, it is a period mystery that braids together two women's lives across the city's sharp lines of race and class.
Natalie Portman stars as Maddie Schwartz, a Jewish housewife who abandons her stifling marriage to reinvent herself as an investigative newspaper reporter and becomes fixated on an unsolved death. Moses Ingram plays Cleo Johnson, a Black woman navigating Baltimore's political and nightlife worlds, whose fate becomes entangled with Maddie's pursuit of a story. The series uses the two women's parallel narration to interrogate ambition, visibility, and who gets to tell whose story.
The series marked a high-profile move into television for Portman and drew attention for Har'el's dreamlike, stylistically bold direction and its evocative recreation of mid-century Baltimore. Critics praised the central performances and the show's ambition even as they debated its hallucinatory, non-linear structure. It streams on Apple TV+.
Sean Walker plans to propose to his girlfriend Leila while they luxuriate on a Caribbean cruise. Instead, Sean suffers severe cruise interruption when Leila mysteriously disappears, and his desperate search for her leads him into a tangled web of inter-terrestrial intrigue. Equally desperate, disoriented, and terrified, Leila is trapped in an undisclosed location. "The Event" TV show fills-in the back-story as the current drama unfolds: As World War II drew to a close, an alien craft crashed in Alaska; government scientists determined the passengers were 99% identical to humans, but that radical 1% difference has the capacity to wreak havoc on the American population, among whom several of the survivors have been hiding and thriving. The CIA, naturally, has kept this information super-top-secret until technology beyond current human capacity foils an assassination attempt on President Elias Martinez. Which of these historic developments officially qualifies as "The Event" TV series remain approximately as uncertain as the reasons why Sean and Leila must forego serious tanning for all of this intrigue.
Ghost Whisperer TV Show centers on Melinda Gordon. After her soul mate dies she starts to be able to connect to spirits of those that died from things other than natural causes. All these spirits can't pass over to the other side without some sort of closure, so Melinda feels she must help them. As a paranormal investigator she must convince others she is not crazy and get them to believe what she says along with trying to figure out what it is the spirits need for closure. This all proves to make it hard for Melinda to live a normal life, but she feels she must do something with her new power. Watch the Ghost Whisperer TV Show to see her put her powers to use.
Real people who genuinely hear and fear things going bump in the night know they're gonna call "Ghost Hunters" TV show, everyday equivalents of Dan Akroyd and Bill Murray except that these ghost hunters try to document their work with vaguely scientific instruments. "Ghost Hunters" follows the sometimes daring and frequently just creepy exploits of "The Atlantic Paranormal Society" (TAPS) as they investigate spectre-sightings and reports of disturbing hauntings of all kinds. Outfitted in team jackets and shirts but otherwise looking like ordinary dudes, Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, and their team-members sit patiently and wait endlessly for their gadgets and widgets to register the presence of ethereal beings. Unlike other haunt-hunting shows that capitalize on cast-members' freak-outs for suspense, "Ghost Hunters" shows the TAPS guys gleefully chasing the ghosts, asking them questions and taunting them. Whether or not the investigators ever throw a net over a ghost, "Ghost Hunters" TV sries does a spectacular job of documenting the social history of some of the world's most infamous places.
"Destination Truth" provides more testimony to American's insatiable taste for all things creepy and spooky. More than two million people tune-in every week to watch Josh Gates lead a crew of intrepid investigators in search of a paranormal creature come to life from myth or superstition. Airing on SyFy, "Destination Truth" appeals to an audience already well prepared to suspend disbelief, but the shows producers are masters of suspense and wizards of paranormal para-technology, so that even skeptics find themselves strangely seduced. Episodes of "Destination Truth" begin with Gates and crew members gathering at sites of creepy-thing sightings, rigging-up elaborate surveillance equipment and gathering eyewitness testimony from creepy-thing spotters. As team members complete their overnight stake-out, monsters, chimeras, and gryphons supposedly make cameo appearances via thermal imaging, enhanced audio, or a crew member's agitated testimony, "I felt it. I swear I felt it."
