I read Michelle Zauner’s memoir, Crying in H Mart, around the time of the crab cakes, and I was in awe of her capacity to write so vividly and unflinchingly about her mother’s illness and death. I went to a great restaurant earlier this year that advertised its meaty crab cakes as “all killer, no filler”-this book felt just like that. How often do you hear about a crime thriller with time travel in it? The storyline is twisty and the prose is excellent, not a word out of place. When she gets up the next morning, distraught and desperate to help her kid, she realizes she’s woken up on the day before the murder. It’s about a mother who witnesses her teenage son kill a man outside their home, for seemingly no reason. īest novel I’ve read recently, and the best work of nonfiction: Wrong Place Wrong Time, by Gillian McAllister, was impossible to put down. The show’s executive producer Andy Siara previously wrote the 2020 movie Palm Springs, which was a fun, time-loop-y ride. But a good whodunit is, in my opinion, timeless.Īnd something from this century: I devoured all eight episodes of The Resort, also on Peacock, a clever, raunchy mystery-comedy that also manages to be a quiet meditation on grief. As with any show created in the 1980s and ’90s, there are some bits that haven’t aged very well. Girl, it’s Season 8 you’re going to solve this whole thing! Despite the gruesome subject, every episode feels cozy, and my partner and I like to pause a few minutes before the end to try to figure out the killer ourselves. I love the moment when Jessica shows up at a crime scene and tells the professionals some version of, Oh, I’m not sure how I could possibly help, Detective. And Jessica Fletcher is irresistible! Her demeanor? Admirably kind and generous. I started watching it for the first time last year, after I saw a tweet about how a good chunk of the show consists of men flirting with Lansbury’s irresistible Jessica Fletcher. The television show I’m most enjoying right now: Murder, She Wrote, the TV series starring Angela Lansbury (streaming on Peacock). Kendi: Working class does not equal white The film is based on the best-selling novel by Laura Kasischke. As the older Diana's life begins to unravel and the younger Diana gets closer and closer to the fatal day, a deeper mystery slowly unravels. These memories disrupt the idyllic life she's now leading with her professor husband Paul and their young daughter Emma. The older Diana, however, is haunted by the increasingly-strained relationship she had with Maureen as the day of the school shooting approached. In flashbacks, Diana is a vibrant high schooler (Evan Rachel Wood) who, with her shy best friend Maureen, plot typical teenage strategies, cutting class, fantasizing about boys and vow to leave their sleepy suburb at the first opportunity. Oscar-nominee Uma Thurman plays a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life and perhaps her sanity on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting that took the life of her best friend. A crime/drama set in 1960 London, where a soon-to-retire janitor (Caine) convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive (Moore) to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.
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