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Murderbot–If I tell you, I’ll have to kill you

Written by Diana Paul on October 26, 2026. Posted in Series, Unhealed Wound. No Comments on Murderbot–If I tell you, I’ll have to kill you

In this witty and wry sci-fi comedy, Murderbot, based on author Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries book series, we see a robot trying to understand humans, and inevitably being disappointed in their limited capabilities. It would be so much easier to kill them. “I was built to obey humans,” explains SecUnit/ Murderbot. “But...

Prisoners’ Wives–Collateral Damage?

Written by Diana Paul on July 27, 2026. Posted in Series, Unhealed Wound. 2 Comments on Prisoners’ Wives–Collateral Damage?

The BBC drama series Prisoners’ Wives focuses on the wives, children and other family members and friends living in the “outside” world while their husbands or partners are incarcerated. A highly original narrative of the collateral damage that imprisonment inflicts on the innocent and sometimes the...

The Testaments–To Girl Power, A Covenant for the Future

Written by Diana Paul on June 9, 2026. Posted in Series, Unhealed Wound.

The new Hulu series, The Testaments, is a sequel to the blockbuster six-season “The Handmaid’s Tale” (See my May 14, 2017 and June 2, 2025 reviews) Both series are based on novels of the same name by Margaret Atwood. Continuing the dark world where Gilead girls are trained to become Gilead women, The...

The Cleaning Lady–Doctoring Crime

Written by Diana Paul on May 18, 2026. Posted in Series, Unhealed Wound.

In this four-season series based on an Argentine drama, The Cleaning Lady is not what she seems. Rather, she is an undocumented Cambodian doctor, Thony de la Rosa (Élodie Yung), a casino cleaner in Las Vegas. Not able to find other US employment to pay the medical costs for her young son’s autoimmune disease, she is living a very tenuous...

The Housemaid–Cleaning Up the Mess

Written by Diana Paul on May 11, 2026. Posted in Unhealed Wound.

Based on the titular blockbuster novel by Freida McFadden, The Housemaid opens with Millie (Sydney Sweeney of “Euphoria”) being interviewed by the uber-wealthy, perfectly coifed and shellacked Nina Winchester (Amanda Seyfried), in her perfectly immaculate mega-mansion. A homeless but romantic young ex-con on probation, Millie...

Tehran– Foreshadowing Today’s US Headlines

Written by Diana Paul on March 26, 2026. Posted in Unhealed Wound.

In this exciting edge-of-your-seat spy thriller, we see the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) and Mossad in a fierce, white-knuckle fight-to-the-death, cat-and-mouse battle. Tehran’s main character is Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan), a death-defying martial-arts skilled undercover Mossad spy who enters Tehran to neutralize...