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Upon delving into the second episode of Sight Unseen‘s debut season, I found myself grappling with a sense of subdued satisfaction. The initial thrill that gripped me in the first episode was missing here. Instead, the narrative delved into a seemingly straightforward investigation of Charles Adams’ murder, connected to a familial feud where Detective Tess adeptly untangled the web surrounding Hannah’s hit-and-run. Detective Tess, though initially hesitant to rejoin the force, got back in the game with a little nudge from Sunny Patel from the EyesUp app. However, the journey lacked gripping intensity, and the whole story lacked that edge-of-your-seat excitement. No cool fights, no crazy drama—just a run-of-the-mill detective gig. Even though the revelations were interesting, they just didn’t pack the same punch. I was waiting for that heart-pounding moment, you know? Instead, it was more like a detective snoozefest, opting for a simpler, more mediocre detective investigation.

Meri Brown, a star on Sister Wives, faced challenges in her career when her reality TV fame became too overwhelming for her mental health industry job. Meri is the proud owner of Lizzie's Heritage Inn, a bed and breakfast in Utah that was a long-time dream of hers to own. Despite controversy surrounding the company, Meri continues to work with LuLaRoe as a trainer and retailer, selling clothing items through her online boutique.

Meri Brown from Sister Wives has several side hustles outside of her career as a reality TV star. Meri is the first of Kody Brown’s four wives. The polygamist man married her in April 1990. Meri was raised in a polygamous family in Utah. She was good friends with Kody’s sister, who introduced them just two months before their wedding when Meri was 19 and Kody was 22 years old. Janelle Brown divorced Meri’s brother to become Kody’s second wife.

While professional football has always captivated American audiences with its gladiatorial drama and drive, it’s at heart a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, propelled by profits and ratings. But amateur football, especially at the high school level, is a galvanizing force for communities, both rural and urban. It brings hope and unity; it’s an escape and an outlet; and for some it’s a pathway out of poverty.

Pete Berg’s Friday Night Lights, the feature film and subsequent long running fiction series about football culture in a small town in Texas, arguably paved the way for such docs as Undefeated, Last Chance U and Outta the Muck, where football serves as the narrative throughline and pretext for a deeper exploration of race and class. Boys in Blue, Berg’s docuseries about a Minneapolis high school football team and the sociocultural challenges that its community faces, premiered on Showtime in January...

Peter Berg didn’t know how to respond to the 2020 murder of George Floyd. It was not the Minneapolis that the filmmaker, a graduate of Saint Paul’s Macalester College, thought he knew. Eventually, he turned to football, as he had before in his career — following the predominantly Black players at the city’s North Community High School along with their coaches (also members of the Minneapolis Pd) for a football season that proved fraught on and off the field.

Boys in Blue, the resulting four-part Showtime series (out Jan. 6), may signal a softening for the 57-year-old director. Best known for such machismo-fueled features as Friday Night Lights, Hancock and Battleship, Berg is also readying a Netflix limited series about the opioid crisis (Painkiller) and a long-gestating Rihanna doc for Amazon — if she approves the cut. Speaking from the West L.A. offices of his Film Forties production company, Berg...

Christina Ricci has discussed the Netflix series Wednesday starring Jenna Ortega.

Ricci, 42, began her career playing the sullen Addams family daughter, Wednesday, adapted from the characters created by cartoonist Charles Adams.

The actor was nine years old when she portrayed the deadpan child in two live-action Addams Family films, released in 1991 and 1993.

Most recently, she starred in the Netflix series Wednesday, which sees 20-year-old Ortega take on the iconic role once played by Ricci.

This time, Ricci played the role of Ms Thornhill, a teacher at Wednesday’s school, Nevermore Academy.

In a recent interview with The Guardian, Ricci spoke briefly about the reboot.

Asked whether it is weird to still speak about the character decades after she played her, Ricci answered: “I don’t mind. I talk about her in almost every interview!”

Speaking about Netflix’s newly released series, she said: “But I think it’s important to...