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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 04/11/2025 (341 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Overdoing screen time is not (always?) the solution to whatever challenge presents itself, but it couldn’t hurt. Just me?
In any case, consider these five viewing suggestions as mostly relatable examples of how to survive and even thrive.
All’s Fair
Series premières with the first three of 10 episodes today, Tuesday, Nov. 4, on Disney+/Hulu
The broader phrase “all’s fair in love and war” has roots in one novel written in the late 1500s, as well as a translational liberty taken a few decades later on one of the most famous novels ever, Don Quixote.
Here, all that and more are fed through the grinder brain of writer-director Ryan Murphy (Feud, American Horror Story).
Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts and Niecy Nash-Betts are lady lawyers turning the table on big-stakes divorce settlements. And occasionally each other.
Brooke Shields, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Judith Light are among the actors playing their clients. As ever with Murphy’s work, expect dazzling style with deep currents of psychodrama.
Pluribus
Series premières the first two of nine episodes on Friday, Nov. 7, on Apple TV+
Better Call Saul’s writer-director Vince Gilligan and star Rhea Seehorn team up again in this new mind-bender of a series (already renewed for a second season). It also plucks a chord from Gilligan’s deeper past: The X-Files.
Here Seehorn plays a grumpy author who sees the rest of the world turning into ridiculously happy saps.
Should she just cheer up and jump on the bandwagon? Or is this even really happening?
Only one way to find out, weekly over the next two months.
Being Eddie
Documentary premières Wednesday, Nov. 12, on Netflix
You think you know Eddie Murphy? This documentary aims to round up his many talents and personae, as seen in these and other roles:
- the teenager who joined the cast of Saturday Night Live out of high school;
- the prosthetic-draped pioneer of multiple-character movies;
- the blue standup comic;
- the soulful donkey;
- the buddy-cop superstar; and
- the quiet Mr. Church.
Among those adding their praise to Murphy’s commentary are Dave Chappelle, Jamie Foxx, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson and more.
The Beast in Me
Series premières all eight episodes on Thursday, Nov. 13, on Netflix
Bestselling author Aggie (Homeland’s Claire Danes) is eager for a diversion from the grips of her writer’s block when the moving truck delivers a new neighbour: Nile (The Americans’ Matthew Rhys).
She’s all the more interested because he was also the prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance. Doubling the drama quotient is Aggie’s offer to help Nile clear his name.
This sounds like a “maybe just one more before I go to bed” binge.
Malice
Series premières with all six episodes on Friday, Nov. 14, on Prime Video
Is this one more or less relatable than a possibly homicidal new next-door neighbour? If you are a stupidly wealthy person with no ability to spot red flags, this might be triggering. For the rest, this aims to be deliciously deceptive drama.
David Duchovny (wait, another X-Files reference?) and Carice Van Houten (Game of Thrones) play wealthy parents whose regular nanny falls seriously ill during their vacation in Greece.
What luck, then, to make the acquaintance of Adam (Jack Whitehall, The Afterparty), who just happens to be a tutor. Only his lessons are more psychopathic than academic.
We’ve all been there, right?
Broadcast dates subject to change. Questions, comments to denise.duguay@winnipegfreepress.com.
Denise Duguay
Copy editor, TV columnist
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