Number of episodes: 2 Manti Te’o is known as a fantastic football player, Heisman contender, and overall great person. During his senior year at Notre Dame, he shared that his grandmother and girlfriend died on the same day, and subsequently dedicated his season to them. A heartbreaking story that tugged on the whole country’s heartstrings. … Continue reading Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist
Tag: Limited Series
The Most Hated Man On The Internet
Trigger warning: this show contains testimony from victims of sexual exploitation, derogatory language towards women, nudity, drug abuse, suicide, and depression Number of episodes: 3 Revenge porn. Two words that you know exactly what it is and their effect. No good can come from it unless you're Hunter Moore. In 2010, he made a website … Continue reading The Most Hated Man On The Internet
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Disclaimer: This blog doesn’t stand for any SW slander so this is 100% biased Number of episodes: 6 Picking up (10 years later) from Episode III, Ewan McGregor is in hiding on Tatooine, keeping a low profile, while ensuring that Luke is safe from afar. Things change for the worse when, in an attempt to … Continue reading Obi-Wan Kenobi
The Staircase
Warning: this show depicts violence Number of episodes: 8 Originally a documentary in France, The Staircase on Netflix took the true crime-loving scene by storm in 2018. Did a husband push his wife down the stairs or did she fall? HBO took matters into its own hands and did a based on true events show … Continue reading The Staircase
Under The Banner Of Heaven
Warning: this show depicts a gruesome crime, domestic abuse, and violence Number of episodes: 7 Based on the book by Jon Krakauer, you are taken head first into a disturbing and layered crime centered around the most prominent Mormon family in Salt Lake City. The Lafferty's seemingly has it all; a big family (all devout … Continue reading Under The Banner Of Heaven
Candy
Number of episodes: 5 Candy Montgomery is your average Texas housewife from the 80s; she cooks, cleans, goes to church, has an affair with her friend's husband, and kills his wife with an ax. Jessica Biel plays Montgomery, in this dynamic and creepy betrayal of one of the most gruesome murders in Texas at the … Continue reading Candy
Anatomy Of A Scandal
Disclaimer: this show contains elements of rape and sexual assault Finally another thriller limited series! Based on the book with the same title by Sarah Vaughan, a Parliamentary minister’s worst nightmare comes true, the marital affair he had with a coworker has made the headlines. To make matters worse, there are now allegations of rape. … Continue reading Anatomy Of A Scandal
WECRASHED
Number of episodes: 8 You might have heard of the shared workspaces WeWork but you might not know of the dramatic and crazy story of how the founder started and failed the company. Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway play Adam and Rebekah Neumann the founder and wife of WeWork. Dramatized for sure but the story … Continue reading WECRASHED
Not So Pretty
Number of episodes: 4 Wonder what's in your personal products that can be harmful? This series is for you! Looking at the makeup, nail, skincare, and hair industries, you see as some companies have operated knowing that their products can be harmful. Narrated by Keke Palmer, you're shown how to look at your personal products … Continue reading Not So Pretty
Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.
Number of episodes: 4 If you like wild true crime stories, this one is for you. No murder, just fraud. Sarma Melngailis created and owned Pure Food & Wine restaurant in New York. Putting her faith in the wrong person, her successful life was turned upside down ending up with her on the run from … Continue reading Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.
Inventing Anna
Number of episodes: 9 FINALLY, we learn how a girl with nothing coned New York's elite into thinking she was rich. Ruth Langmore (Julia Garner) and Veta from My Girl (Anna Chlumsky) take on the real-life story of Anna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, and the reporter that made her famous, Jessica Pressler. This … Continue reading Inventing Anna
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
Episodes: 8 The woman across the street was murdered, or was she? In this parody, Kristen Bell sees a murder across the street and calls the cops…who don’t find a body. Based on/making fun of Women In The Window by A.J. Finn (adapted into a movie of the same name released on Netflix last year … Continue reading The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window