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Two years after a fatal operation drove Hondo Harrelson out of the LAPD, he is working private security for a...
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Max Wren intends to transfer his documentary about Lenore to VHS. The choice seems affectionate until one looks at how he works. Surrounded by monitors and video equipment, he replays the missing influencer’s posts, records their supposed common interests and speaks to her image as if a reply might come. A tape would let him hold on to someone who has disappeared from the internet. It would also give his version of her a permanence she never agreed to. Sam’s arrival makes Max harder to dismiss as an isolated aberration. He brings footage of Lenore and his own resentment at...

The flashback that shows Sarah warning against a winter birth at the remote cabin changes the meaning of her presence there. She has advised Goody to stay within reach of a hospital. Goody refuses, and Sarah agrees to attend because she fears the family will proceed without her. Raymond Creamer gives his midwife a choice in which professional judgment and professional duty pull in opposite directions. Leaving would vindicate her advice. Staying might keep someone safe. Back at the birthing pool, the household has arranged itself around Goody’s certainty. Her husband Jayson offers reassurance, his sister Candace serves as doula,...

Utsugi cannot reliably command the left side of his body. He can, however, describe every gesture his daughter-in-law makes as though it were intended for him. Wayne Wang lets us hear those descriptions through Utsugi’s diary narration, which makes a door left open before a shower feel momentous. The door may mean very little to Susu. Utsugi has the time, the appetite, and the authority to turn it into a story. Susu (Fan Bingbing) has considerably less freedom to speculate. She helps Utsugi (Lily Franky) with physical therapy after a stroke, then stays behind to care for him when the...

Luiz calls Wesley a murderer and tells Vicentina that she failed as a mother. She has come to apologize, yet there is no answer she can give that would make his anger unreasonable. Rejane Faria holds Vicentina in that terrible position: she can bear the accusation without knowing how much of it belongs to her. The conversation has the discomfort of two people speaking about the same death from places they cannot exchange. Elsewhere, Isabel and her sister Vera invite Vicentina to a celebration for their mother, who died before her 90th birthday. Their welcome offers a place at the...

Steve Buscemi is asked to join Jordan Mendoza’s sketch show, and the pitch comes with an uncomfortable bargaining chip. Mendoza suggests that turning down a Filipino American creator might look racist. The joke catches the demand for representation at the point where it becomes a sales tactic: an identity offered as both a reason to say yes and a reason to feel guilty about saying no. Buscemi’s presence gives the pitch its comic stakes, but the unease belongs to the transaction. A later sketch finds a nastier version of the same social calculation. Middle-aged white men keep approaching Mendoza to...

Amaan’s room has plants and a giant fish tank. Miranda’s has books and music. These are small comforts aboard a space station sent to study Vesta as a possible home for humanity, and they make the crew’s disappearance unsettling in a particular way. Someone chose how to live here. Exploring A.R.E.S. means getting to know those people from the things they left behind, with no one around to tell you what happened. Their messages, journals, and audio recordings gradually fill in the distance between the empty rooms. The voice performances carry exhaustion and strain in the crew’s relationships, giving those...
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The flashback that shows Sarah warning against a winter birth at the remote cabin changes the meaning of her presence there. She has advised Goody to stay within reach of...
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