A writer since her childhood introduction to Shel Silverstein, Marni adores film, cats, Brits, and the Oxford comma. She studied screenwriting and has written movie, TV, and pop culture reviews. Find her on Instagram and BlueSky.
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Whether you read his books or were introduced to shows he created like Collision or Foyle’s War, Anthony Horowitz is a name you should recognize. His early YA titles led to writing the explosively popular teen spy series known as the Alex Rider novels, which he later adapted to
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The third episode of Moonflower Murders begins with a plea: Aiden holds a press conference at D.S. Locke’s urging, addressing the camera and begging Cecily to contact him and the kidnapper to let her go. All the main characters are watching the broadcast, but there’s a new
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As Moonflower Murders returns for its second installment, Susan is dwelling on her guilt in encouraging Alan Conway to use the real-life murder of Frank Parris as the inspiration for Atticus Pünd Takes the Case. She flashes back to eight years ago, meeting with him for lunch when he was
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Following her near-death in the finale of Magpie Murders, editor-turned-amateur detective Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) has left London for the gorgeous vistas of Crete in Moonflower Murders, where she is running a hotel with her longtime boyfriend Andreas (Alexandros Logothetis). But there’s trouble in paradise: running a hotel is
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Magpie Murders is the brainchild of Anthony Horowitz, the prolific writer known for television titles like Foyle’s War. This tale began as a novel (also penned by Horowitz) and is part of his Susan Ryeland Series. As much a meditation on why we love mystery stories as it is
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It’s been almost two years since the second season of HBO’s gripping coke-addled roller coaster about investment bankers in their cutthroat financial jungle, Industry debuted. Stylish and smart, Season 3 delivers fantastic plot twists and an ensemble of exquisitely talented actors and continues to confound its audience with
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Leave your literature degree behind, and don’t fret over what you don’t remember reading in the 8th grade. The Decameron is a Netflix limited series (very) (loosely) based on the 14th-century Italian anthology of tales, full of lust, fun, dark humor, and unexpected heart. In 1348, Firenze, Italy,
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It’s the end of Professor T’s lively third season, and we finally get our payoff: the truth about Jasper’s father’s death. Throw in a murder mystery where the victim of a car crash died of suffocation, add the surprising death of a main character, and it’
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The fifth episode of Professor T starts out wanting you to believe Jasper is once again accused of murder, but that’s false. He just won his freedom and cleared his name – legally, if not professionally – and is attempting to reclaim his place at Cambridge. Luckily, that is not what
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We teach best what we most need to learn; this week, Jasper is the perfect example of this idiom, gaining wisdom and (eventually) embracing humility in Professor T's fourth episode. He haunts his old lecture hall – both when empty and when occupied by his replacement, Erik Haiden (Cornelius
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It is unclear how much time has passed since the second episode, but this week finds the Professor at his trial for the attempted murder of Simon Lanesborough. Simon’s crookedness is not questioned, but what happened to him is not mentioned. Was he jailed? We don’t see him
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The second episode of Professor T’s third season features a clever opener that intercuts between Jasper approaching the therapy room, where he finds his mother Adelaide waiting instead of Dr. Goldberg, and the murder of the week, with an employee seeing a young bride floating dead in a hotel