The Girlfriend is a slippery, dual-perspective psychological thriller on Prime Video, adapted from Michelle Frances's 2017 bestselling novel. Robin Wright, who also directs several episodes and executive produces, stars as Laura, a successful gallery owner and fiercely protective mother whose comfortable life tilts off its axis when her adored son Daniel brings home a new girlfriend. Olivia Cooke plays Cherry, the ambitious young woman who may be a devoted partner or a calculating opportunist, depending entirely on whose version of events you believe.
The series' central formal trick is to refuse to take a side. As the relationship between the two women curdles from wary politeness into open psychological warfare, the show replays key events from each woman's point of view, subtly altering a glance, a line of dialogue, or a gesture so that the same scene reads as either menacing or perfectly innocent. The effect keeps the audience permanently off balance, unsure whether Laura is a mother rightly sensing danger or a snob poisoning her son's happiness, and whether Cherry is a victim or a predator.
Wright and Cooke are both excellent, circling each other with icy precision, and critics praised the series as a tense, morally ambiguous adult thriller elevated by its two committed leads. Stylish and coolly unnerving, The Girlfriend is streaming on Prime Video.
If you liked Thelma & Louise, Mad Money and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, then you are probably a fan of award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri. Her talented writing had secured ABC's new television series Nashville positions as a huge hit of 2012-2013 seasons. The TV show depicts life and struggle of country music star Rayna James to get back on the big stage. Her last chance is her next promo tour, which she has no chances to fail, just because if she fails, her future career as country music star will be very questionable if possible at all. To make chances higher, Rayna takes in her tour, a young starlet Juliette Barnes, whose young sexy power is expected to be in some help to make Rayna's promotion more effective. There are no doubts that both singers are pursuing their own goals. If, the first one wants not to fade away from stardom, the second one wants to take her place in the stage. The next problem is that Rayna's father, Lamar Wyatt, who is powerful politician and a wealthy man of Nashville, seems to be disapproved in Ryana's abilities to regain her stardom glory. As a controlling patriarch he's betting on Rayna's husband, Teddy Conrad, who was living on Rayna's revenues, and now is trying to make a career as mayor of Nashville (thanks to help of a father-in-law). Such a twisted plot is accompanied by masterfully selected and combined ensemble cast: Ryana James is played by Connie Britton (a Vivien Harmon in American Horror Story and Diane Huxley in 24 television series), while the young teenage music star Juliette Barnes, is played by Hayden Panettiere (Kirby Reed in Scream franchise.)
If you can't wait any more for next Hollywood superhero blockbuster, Arrow will deliver what you crave for in the format of action-packed television series. The TV show depicts day and night life of fictional character who is billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) at day and redoubtable vigilante "Green Arrow" at night. His story begins five years ago when irresponsible and careless masher, Oliver shipwrecks at inhabited island in the middle of Pacific Ocean. Considered to be dead he was faced lonesome life in dangerous environment for almost five years. The modern day Robinson Crusoe has to develop special abilities to survive the ordeal, the masterly wielding a bow was one of them. As he returns home, Oliver decides to hide his new skills from the entourage, and use them to fight all sorts of villains: corrupted officials, mob leaders, and common bandits. When night comes he puts on his dark green cloak over the perfect body (say hello to "single females" audience), takes his bow and arrows and goes on the streets of Starling City to restore the piece and order. But there is one thing more about Arrow: as Oliver Queen he ultimately wishes to return his ex-girlfriend Dinah Laurel Lance (played by Katie Cassidy: Emma Perkins from Monte Carlo)
Arguably the best of the kind Survivor series are at his next glorious pivotal point "“ Survivor: Philippines delivers a successful dish with precisely measured amount of needed ingredients: danger, glory, fear, loathing and friendship. Alongside with fifteen new people audited and accepted for Survivor: Philippines, there are three well-known castaways from previous seasons. All of them have got a illness and/or injures during the previous Survivors, however their charisma and audience's love returned them to the show. These lucky ones are Russell Swan (removed from Survivor: Samoa due to his blackouts), Jonathan Penner (who has seriously infected a knee in Survivor: Micronesia), and Michael Skupin (who was evacuated from The Australian Outback due to his multiple skin burns).
When you and your family just move into a luxurious gated community, all you have to expect are tranquility, peace and mutual respect of all the neighbors. But, what if "all of the neighbors" are the alien forms of extraterrestrial life, and you and your beloved ones are the only humans in this "society"? What will you do? Claim your real estate agent to cancel the contract? Pass all the extraterrestrials to FBI to conduct the inhumane experiments? No, you will teach them humanity and learn from them how to be a "good family" instead. Exactly as Weaver family does in this weird and sometimes "goofy" television series, The Neighbors centered on their unusual life among the aliens. But don't consider their neighbors some sort of ugly monsters"¦ Oh, yeah, of course they have some green goo ejaculated from ears when they cry, and, of course, they prefer to eat using eyes, not mouth, but they so adorable! So, you have ever intent to pass them to official for some cruel test, please, don't do it! Although, the TV show has gained mostly negative receptions from critics, it worth watching for many reasons. First of all it was created by legendary Dan Fogelman, and all the critics negative reviews are just a result of high expectations for these series. The second reason is the ensemble cast: the star of Entourage, Modern Family, Still Standing and ER - Jami Gertz looks natural in the extraterrestrial surrounding of Ningning Deng, Tracy Weisert and Mobin Khan.
Sometimes sarcastic, sometimes touching, but every time funny, The New Normal is a Ryan Murphy's and Ali Adler's TV series filmed originally for NBC. The TV show revolves around successful gay couple, David Murray and Bryan Collins (played by Justin Bartha and Andrew Rannells).Their life is good, their careers are rocketing and everything is running smoothly in their relationship, besides the one thing they wish insanely, a baby. On this ground they meet Goldie Clemmons (Georgia King), a young single woman who agrees to become a surrogate mother for their planned child. Notwithstanding there is one obstacle on the way to make David's and Bryan's dream come true "“ the Goldie's conservative grandmother Jane Forrest (Ellen Barkin), and be sure she will do everything to prevent two fathers-to-be happiness. Meanwhile Goldie, David and Bryan discuss if two "fathers" wishes to be present at Goldie's insemination. The Bryan responds with categorical NO, just because female genitals look for him ""¦as Tarantula's face". Later we learn that all he wishes the baby should be "blonde, skinny, and doesn't cry" so may by Goldie's grandmother was right?
If you love animals more than people around you, then, Animal Practice is the best TV show to watch in 2012 in your case. Why? Just because every character in Animal Practice prefers to deal with dogs, monkeys, birds, whatever, than with humans. However, they (characters) are not some homogeneous substance: some of them are "inappropriate ones", some "crazy ones", some "vulgar ones" and even some "nervous ones". This entire bestiary" is headed by Dr. George Coleman, who is, probably, most colorful representative of all these "kinds". He can easily make an analogy between a dog's behavior and values of average woman's life. Initially, it seems like he is wrong, but finally all of his predictions and analogies turn to be ultimately right. The animals in Animal Practice are "inappropriate" too: a monkey who rides a mini-ambulance all the season-long (this monkey earns 12,000USD for each episode, by the way), a suicidal cat, who tries to kill itself as his owner forces it to watch he Wendy Williams Show. And of course, Dr. Coleman has his own version of events and analogies with cat owner's intimate life, which he easily explains to her, sometimes playing it unsafe.
A Scott Silveri's situation comedy starring Matthew Perry in leading role, Go On received mostly positive feedback from critics thanks to Matthew's brilliant play as Ryan King. Ryan is the main protagonist in the TV show; he is suffering from tragic loss of his wife and attending some sort of group therapy predominately consisting of people who lost one or more of their beloved ones, but not without the exclusions. These exclusions make the series funny despite of the abovementioned tragic outline of the plot. For example, a girl named Sonia is coping with the death of her cat, Cinderella; Danny is grieving that his wife had a baby from other man and so on. Although many critics agree that Matthew Perry is the only selling point of Go On, the rest of the cast ensemble is good enough to accompany Matthew success: the group leader, Lauren Schneider, is played by Laura Benanti (Carol-Lynne from The Playboy Club and Maria Grazie fromLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit); Julie White plays Anne, a lesbian lawyer grieving the death of her girlfriend (or boyfriend girl?), you probably know Julie White as Gwen in Hello I Must Be Going and Judy Witwicky from Transformers movie series.
The Mindy Project is centered on single gynecologist, Mindy Lahiri, portrayed by Mindy Kaling who has written the script for the TV show, based upon the real life story of her mother, a former OB/GYN physician. There are lots of interesting facts about The Mindy Project: it was first South Asian American leaded series in American TV history; and it features one person as a leading character, a script writer and a director. This person is Mindy Kaling, born as Vera Chokalingam, who has made a phenomenal career in television. She has started as writer in The Office being only woman in the staff. Besides the fact she has written at least 22 episodes she has got the role of Kelly Kapoor. By the eighth season she was awarded as the Executive Producer of the TV show which marked the pivotal point of her television career. It was crucial moment when NBC executives decided to give a green light for her TV show "“ The Mindy Project. In this single camera comedy Mindy depicts nice and cheerful young woman who is trying to find a man of her dreams, and in this endeavor she easily enters every new relationship that looks promising.
Premiered on September 25, 2012, Ben and Kate is adorable FOX-produced situation comedy, has immediately got lots of positive critic reviews. There are lots of reasons for this, and one of them is a brilliant ensemble cast. Not in the sense of presence of some top-paid actors in the series, but in the sense of amazing chemistry between the leading roles actress and actor: Dakota Johnson and Nat Faxon. They play adult brother and sister, how has grown up in totally different characters with lots of opposite traits. Kate (played by Dakota Johnson) is a lone mother, who is raising a daughter, trying to make ends meet by working hard as bar manager, while Ben (Nat Faxon) on his turn has had no special purpose in his life and just remained a child. The show begins when Ben decides that her sister lives a very uneasy life and decides to help her by moving in to her flat. All the Ben and Kate plot is build upon a laughable situations that arise in numerous quantity around their almost-as family life. Ben is trying hard, giving her sister lots of advices on how to establish strong relationship with men from a very first date, while Kate endeavors to familiarize his brother with a real adult life.
Nominated as "Best Situation Comedy" in 2010, The Inbetweeners depicts life of Will McKenzie and three of his friends Simon Cooper, Jay Cartwright and Neil Sutherland while they are attending the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive School. The main character, Will narrates the intros and conclusions of each episode, and all the TV show action is concentrated mostly on his personality. When his parents were divorced, Will was transferred from expensive private school to comprehensive one. The new environment looked very hostile for him at the first time. However, he managed to befriend with the "gang": Simon, Jay and Nail very soon after his first day at the new school. Meanwhile, they formed some kind of "alliance" of "uncool" persons, as they share many similar traits and behavior clichés: each of them was suffering some bullying and failing the attempts to have sex with girls. The series has gained lots of positive reviews and even has been voted as "Best New British TV Sitcom 2008". The success of The Inbetweeners was repeated by The Inbetweeners movie filmed in 2011 and directed by Ben Palmer, while the screenplay was totally written by TV show creators - Damon Beesley and Iain Morris.