So since The Handmaid’s Story isn’t darkish sufficient (actually give us one thing, present writers), I additionally began watching Mare of Easttown (HBO Max) and over the weekend watched The Girl within the Window (tremendous, gritty anti-heroines are my factor, I assume). Mare is to this point reminding me a number of Broadchurch, one other not-very-uplifting however nice present, and Kate Winslet goes all-in on the accent and the look.

However wow what a disappointment The Girl within the Window was. It has an all-star solid (Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anthony Mackie) and a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts, based mostly on AJ Finn’s 2018 novel (which BY THE WAY, learn the bonkers backstory about that man). It follows the…

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