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Lady in the Lake on Apple TV+. Pictured: Natalie Portman as housewife-turned-journalist Maddie Schwartz and Moses Ingram as doomed Black activist Cleo Johnson.
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Lady in the Lake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V04ptsZ-Jg  Oscar-winner Natalie Portman and up-and-comer Moses Ingram lead this period drama about two women whose ahead-of-their-time dreams land them at the intersection of racism, sexism and murder in 1960s Baltimore The disappearance of a young girl on Thanksgiving 1966, closely followed by the murder of Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram), a Black activist trying to…
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Hotel Portofino on PBS. Pictured: Natascha McElhone as hotel owner Bella Ainsworth and Lily Frazer as singer-dancer-actress Claudine Pascal — two independent women making their way in 1920s Italy.
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Hotel Portofino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zXuU59oCU  British hotelier Bella Ainsworth and her friends/lovers/employees return for a third season of romance and intrigue on the Italian Riveria, all under the looming shadow of fascism From the iconic fashions to the stunning views, Hotel Portofino has been a feast for the eyes since the very beginning. The British ex-pat family that owns…
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Women in Blue (Las Azules) on Apple TV+. Pictured: Our trailblazing “Women in Blue” (left to right): Ximena Sariñana as Angeles, Bárbara Mori as Maria, Natalia Téllez as Valentina and Amorita Rasgado as Gabina.
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Women in Blue (Las Azules)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqHDHnGq2O0  A new, fact-based drama out of Mexico follows four women who overcome the odds to form their country’s first-ever female police squad in 1971 As Mexico currently celebrates electing its first female president, screenwriter Fernando Rovzar wanted to chart this progress by harking back to a time when women were not so welcomed into…
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2024 Paris Olympic Games on CBC. Pictured: Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh competes in the Women’s 800m Freestyle as a 14-year-old during the Tokyo Games in 2021.
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2024 Paris Olympic Games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7rEJ1R4u4k  CBC anchor Scott Russell previews Canada’s competitors at this year’s Olympics – headed by 17-year-old swimming phenom Summer McIntosh Three years after the highly unusual 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, postponed and held sans live spectators during the height of the pandemic in 2021, the Games are set to go forth again under…
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Orphan Black: Echoes on AMC. Pictured: Krysten Ritter as Lucy, a woman on a mission to solve the mystery of her identity.
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Orphan Black: Echoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QqOkpu9_tg  Executive producer John Fawcett takes TV Week inside the latest evolution of the Canadian clone thriller In 2013, a little homegrown sci-fi drama sporting the inscrutable yet compelling title of Orphan Black hit our airwaves and slowly transformed into an international phenomenon. The provocative thriller followed an array of identical strangers birthed in an…
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder on Netflix. Pictured: Emma Myers as teenaged detective Pip Fitz-Amobi, who uncovers a dark side to her small town after reopening a case plenty of locals would prefer stay closed.
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA39lIDm75Y  Netflix’s darkly comedic thriller blends hard-boiled British noir with teen dramedy The classic British crime drama takes a young adult turn in the thrilling new series A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. The six-episode series follows 17-year-old sleuth Pip Fitz-Amobi as she reinvestigates the murder-suicide of a popular high school senior and her boyfriend…
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Red Eye on Paramount+. Pictured: Richard Armitage as murderer Dr. Matthew Nolan.
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Richard Armitage – Red Eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxDrJMrF2rM Between Berlin Station, all of those Harlan Coben shows and now Red Eye, you’ve been doing a lot of series in this genre lately. Have you caught the thriller bug? I feel like I’m up to my neck in crime mysteries, psychological suspense thrillers . . . I’m not complaining. It’s the kind…
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House of the Dragon on HBO Canada. Pictured: Eve Best as Princess Rhaenys Targaryen.
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Eve Best – House of the Dragon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN2H_sKcmGw&t=20s Talk us through Rhaenys’ last stand in episode four. There are a few near-misses, and she does have chances to fly away and regroup — yet she doesn’t. I think she knows that it’s going to be “suicide” throughout, really . . . The first part of that battle, it feels like she’s…
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