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Online on-demand streaming of "Dexter" has been available on Showtime's online portal, Showtime Anytime, to people who already pay for the premium network with a participating distributor such as Comcast or DirecTV.
But "Dexter" hasn't been available to stream as part of subscription services like Netflix or Amazon Prime Instant Video, even though sites like Netflix have other Showtime series -- "Weeds," for example -- among its on-demand library.
The announcement so soon after "Dexter" finished its run underscores how digital rights have become a lucrative avenue for media companies. CBS, which is also the parent company of CNET, struck a deal with Netflix rival Amazon this summer to pass along episodes of its sci-fi hit "Under the Dome" to the instant-streaming platform just four days after they aired on broadcast. The value of the deal, in addition to international rights for the show, made "Under the Dome" profitable for CBS before a single viewer saw it.
With the final season of "Dexter" coming to Netflix little more than three months after it wrapped up for TV subscribers, Showtime is welcoming new platforms to milk the value of one of its biggest hits.
A Netflix romance series from 2022 called From Scratch with Zoe Saldana which also featured a loved up couple up against very different backgrounds (and familial expectations) across multiple timelines and a few geographies.
so much good stuff here. i loved One Day, like SO much. Enjoyed Murder is Easy (I may have recco'd it myself in Shine Bright HQ). I zipped through The Tourist Season 1, but somehow haven't gotten past the first episode of Season 2.
One Day cast a spell on its legion of viewers soaring to the #1 spot on Netflix around Valentine\u2019s Day and even dethroning the popular reality TV based show Love Is Blind, and that\u2019s largely to do with the chemistry between the series\u2019 leads, Ambika Mod (This is Going to Hurt) and Leo Woodall (\u201Cthe nephew\u201D in S2 White Lotus).
If you\u2019re unfamiliar with the premise of the David Nicholls\u2019 book, which was made into a 2011 film starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, the studious and serious Emma Morley (Ambika Mod) meets the disarming, yet sincere Dexter/Dex Mayhew (Leo Woodall) the last day of undergrad at University of Edinburgh at a graduation party. It turns out he had always harbored a slight crush on her and she\u2019s instantly attracted to him because he\u2019s Leo Woodall.
They spend a sexless night together (but not for lack of want) and a more meaningful next day together talking to one another, flirting and having deeper discussions which ignites mutual attraction. Their day abruptly ends with the arrival of Dex\u2019s parents at his apartment. Dexter is unable to properly introduce Emma to his parents and who can blame him entirely. The relationship is all too new. It\u2019s a bit of bad timing as he\u2019s going abroad the next day and graduation means they won\u2019t come back to Edinburgh next term. As the awkward goodbye ensues with his parents watching, it\u2019s evident that Emma is looking to Dex for some friends /lovers validation that neither of them have, at this very new and tender moment in their relationship. When Dex runs after her, we only see a part of this encounter with the rest of it being explained in the final episode. No spoilers here.
Dex and Emma do agree to meet every July 15th for as long as they can which spans twenty+ years from the kind of play-adulting stage that one partakes in, say in their 20s through to the anguish of \u201Churry up and adult\u201D expectations of your early 30s. They grow up together and Emma, being the more direct and aspirational of the two, demands that Dex want more for himself in the category of fulfillment. Dex relies on his good looks and fun personality to climb the MTV-esque ladder of the 90s in the UK but succumbs to drugs and alcohol. His is a party lifestyle. Emma waivers after graduation for a few years, but ultimately finds purpose in teaching drama and later in her writing. In the same way that Emma doesn\u2019t let Dex off lightly with his life goals, he challenges her to pursue her passion and not use the tedium of adult responsibilities as the excuse for not demanding more of her life.
Dex is from a well-to-do, established posh family. He\u2019s privileged and this affects the way he sees the world and his lack of burden when it comes to striving for more. Emma is the hard-working child of Indian immigrants from up north in Yorkshire. She can\u2019t afford to not take her life seriously and in being with someone like Dex, while it\u2019s frustrating at times to relate to him, there\u2019s also the part where she\u2019s living vicariously through the ease with which he approaches life. While the class differences are present in the book and in the 2011 series, this adaptation chose to cast Emma as a woman of color which I think allowed the narrative to be elevated to a more thoughtful place.
It\u2019s no coincidence that when Dex does settle down with someone, she\u2019s also from a privileged, upper-class white family. This is what is expected, at least what Dex thinks he should strive for - stability and respectability - but that relationship isn\u2019t a love match, after all.
In the weeks since the release of the series, there\u2019s been Emma Morley backlash on the internet. While some have bashed her for being \u201Cboring,\u201D others have questioned her ethics (She has a consensual relationship with a married principal at the school she teaches at.), and some even her color. She\u2019s \u201Ctoo sweet,\u201D and how dare she wait for Dex even though she\u2019s choosing to be with him from a place of agency and choice, as opposed to desperation. Per Ambika Mod\u2019s interview with Glamour, she tackled this criticism of Emma with grace and keen insight:
The romance genre can be a double-edged sword at points. For a long time, it has not been a genre that's been respected because it\u2019s mainly for women, and now it's having a sort of resurgence. But it always seems to be the male characters and the male protagonists and the male actors who are elevated from having done a rom-com, and it's the female characters who don't get that same recognition, who don't get that same elevation, who don't get that same moment. And it's a really twisted double standard that shouldn't be the case.
And, you know, I think you also sort of have a double whammy in this adaptation of it where I\u2019m, you know\u2026a lot of people who know the story and read the book or watched the film, probably didn't picture an Emma who looked like me, and I've seen some of that more critical reception. But it's a tale as old as time. We just do not give female characters or just women in general the same respect as we do male characters, especially in the show when you've got two characters like Emma and Dex, who were so equal.
Linklater\u2019s Before Sunrise trilogy where two people (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) explore friendship spending just one day together over the course of many years and this develops into something deeper and more romantic.
The Tourist S2 on Netflix. Season 1 was on Max. Both seasons are now streaming on Netflix. Jamie Dornan is \u201Cthe man\u201D without an identity who is wishing he never learned who he was. Danielle MacDonald as his partner and an ex cop who is trying to keep him alive and piece it all together. A tad of Coen Brothers\u2019 style violence and depravity mixed with incisive humor.
Murder is Easy 2023 on Britbox (free trial) Agatha Christie\u2019s BBC\u2019s latest adaptation of the Miss Marple classic, sans Miss Marple, but with a good stand-in in David Jonsson (Industry) as the amateur sleuth who mysteriously meets a woman on a train who alludes to accidents in her town being actual murders. He goes to said town and sinister stuff happens.
Death and Other Details S1 on Hulu. It\u2019s not great but as I miss an ensemble cast of amateur sleuths while I stew in my OMITB purgatory until Steve, Martin and Selena come back for a 4th season, this show while definitively \u201Cmid\u201D does enough entertaining. The premise here is that murders happen on a cruise. Suspects start to line up. The series itself is too long with too many episodes but I\u2019m too far gone to quit it now. If you\u2019re looking for filler, then this show is it.
"Ironclad " is now available on DirecTV and other on-demand providers (check your service listings) and from Netflix (DVD and Blu-ray) starting on July 26th. "Black Death" is available on Netflix (streaming, DVD and Blu-ray) and Amazon Instant Video.
When I was a kid growing up in the Seattle suburb of Edmonds, WA (aka "The Gem of Puget Sound"), my parents did everything that good, sensible parents should do to shield their kids from violence, both real and reel. I remember being innocently intrigued by the furor over "Bonnie and Clyde" in 1967, but they would never have taken me to see it with them (to their credit, since I was only six). The same held true for "The Wild Bunch" in 1969, by which time the debate over movie violence had reached a fever pitch in our national conversation. Over the ensuing decades, that conversation has become a moot point as movie violence proceeded apace, from Sonny Corleone's death in a hail of Tommy-gun fire in "The Godfather" (1972), to the slasher cycle of the late '70s and '80s (when makeup artists Tom Savini and Rick Baker reigned supreme as a master of gory effects) and into the present, when virtually anything - from total evisceration to realistic decapitation -- is possible through the use of CGI and state-of-the-art makeup effects. That's where movies like "Ironclad" and "Black Death" come in, but more on those later.
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