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ELIZABETH TAYLOR: THE LOST

TAPES

HBO Documentary

HBO + MAX

We enjoy a great documentary and in HBO's Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes we got to hear from this stunning star herself via taped interviews where she talked about insights into major moments in her life, and how she approached living her life as a star that was constantly in the spotlight with her films, relationships, and advocacy.

These tapes give the raw and unfiltered thoughts of Elizabeth Taylor. In addition, we have access to videos and pictures that allow us to have a better understanding of who she was and how people that were close to her felt about her.

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUIDLING

Hulu Original

Hulu

If you have yet to catch up on the previous seasons of Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, now is the time to do so as S4 just kicked off on Aug 27th. Our favorite true crime trio is always in the thick of solving some sort of a crime and this season is bound to be no different! As they solve their cases, they let us in on their podcast, those that they interact with, and notable areas on the UWS!

We're excited to see not only those who have come into the series from earlier seasons, but additional guest stars that will make their debut in this one.

After each episode, you should also check out the OMITB Companion Podcast to know more about each episode and to hear the theories that come up!

EMILY IN PARIS

Netflix Series

Netflix

Like many of you, we couldn't wait to binge the first half of S4 of Netflix's Emily in Paris! We pick up where S3 left off. Who doesn't love seeing Emily (Lily Collins) and her friends navigating their lives, love triangles, clients, and more with Paris as a backdrop? Of course, in addition to seeing all of that, the amount of outfits that become scene stealers, is always another reason to watch this show. Part I dropped on Aug 15th and the remainder of S4 will be released on Sept 12th.

If you're like us, you're wondering how it will all play out and you'll begin thinking about what's on deck for S5 or will rewatch all the seasons for the perfect escapism on your next long weekend!

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STEVIE VAN ZANDT: DISCIPLE

HBO Original

Max

In Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple, this documentary takes us through the career of producer, musician, songwriter, activist, actor, and more. We see him throughout Jersey in Asbury Park clubs and arena stadiums with Bruce Springsteen as well as to the Bada Bing Club with James Gandolfini! There are interviews from an array of notables that we love, including The Boss himself, Darlene Love, Eddie Vedder, Paul McCartney, and Bono. This film looks at his influence as well as his legacy and how he champions rock ‘n’ roll and social justice.

PACK ONE BAG

Lemonada

Spotify

In this podcast, documentarian David Modigliani shares his family history with us which includes his grandfather Franco won a Nobel Prize. He became interested in the love story that made it possible even when he was on the run in Fascist Italy. As he learns about his story, he finds many dark truths that took place that showed how a family member was left behind and how his family had a connection to Benito Mussolini.

Pack One Bag allows David to go to Italy and to take a look at his families' past and what one would do when they are faced with predicaments. He hears from his family about what took place, he looks at spy documents, diary entries and more. With everything he found, he enlists Stanley Tucci (Devil Wears Prada, Julie & Julia, The King's Man) to tell this story and to bring it to life so that we can understand the importance of history, perserverance and the human spirit despite obstacles that could be in your way.

CLIPPED

FX

Hulu

In Clipped: The Scandalous Story of LA's Other Basketball Team, we take an in depth look on what took place with the LA Clippers and the notorious NBA owner Don Sterling who was known for his racist and problematic remarks which were recorded. Once they were aired, it was the tape heard around the world! This miniseries is based on ESPN 30 for 30 Podcast, The Sterling Affairs.

Both the podcast and the Hulu series looks at the collision between the dysfunction basketball organization, Sterling's marriage, and the impact that the tape and the statements made on them while the team is trying to win a Championship with Doc Rivers (Laurence Fishburne) as the coach and a team that has the building blocks to potentially win their first championship ring.

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HACKS

Max Original

Max

If you haven't caught up on Hacks, now is the time as S3 is currently dropping a pair of episodes each week until the finale on May 30th! We've been enjoying the latest season which continues with septuagenarian’s veteran comedian, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) as she navigates her continued success as a legendary Vegas act, while putting a twist on her empire from her successful standup career, trying to become a lateshow host, QVC, her friendship with writer Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) and connecting with her friends and family.

This season allows us to see how even a successful person with global accolades still has to have a phenomenal team that works the system in order to achieve her aspirations in her career. We watch how the wheels of the entertainment machine work traditionally as well as non-traditionally. We also learn how what we want may in fact not be what we thought when given the opportunity.

THE VEIL

Hulu Originals

Hulu

We love a good espionage show and this limited series by Steven Knight (Taboo, See, Peaky Blinders). In The Veil, a 6 episode series, we find ourselves constantly asking who is connected to who, where do the lies begin and end, and is anything what it seems to be as we follow a supposed terrorist and the spy sent to find her.

We are introduced to a British woman (Elisabeth Moss) that the first scene lets her client know that his perceived win has turned sour. As he gets arrested, we find that she is moving on to another job and wants to be called Imogen. This job sens her to a refugee camp near the Syrian/Turkish border where a female terrorist, Adilah El Idrissi (Yumna Marwan) has been found. Imogen arrives and we realize that she is connected to various global government agencies.

As they navigate their way to Paris, Imogen and Adilah playh a cat and mouse game of truths and lies as they each check in with teams to further their agenda under the nose of the other. As we continue to get to know them as well as those that they work with, we wonder how much of what is said is true and how it will all end.

DEATH OF AN ARTIST

Pushkin

Spotify

In S2 of Pushkin's podcast, Death of an Artist, we learn about Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock and their impact on the art community. These artists were married and although Jackson is well known, it was Lee that made him famous! She is known as someone who also changed the landscape of modern art!

This podcast focuses on love, power, alcoholism, and an unexpected death as well as an endearing legacy. This 6 episode podcast is hosted by curator, author, and broadcaster Katy Hessel. Listeners will have an inside look into two of the greatest artists of the 20th century, and how their vision impacts ours.

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AKA MR. CHOW

HBO Original

Max

We always enjoy a good documentary and in aka MR. CHOW, we get to know the bigger than life story about Michael Chow who was born, Zhuo Yinghua. His life is one that the tragedies he endured with trauma, loss, and prejudice never stopped him from being a successful businessman, acting, and becoming the very well known restaurateur, Mr. Chow. His ability to host artists, actors, musicians, designers, and models made him the one that everyone wanted to be around. And as is true with how he has navigated his life, he is engaging on his next reinvention, being the artist M where he has embraced this passion that he has always enjoyed.

SLY

Netflix Original

Netflix

When it comes to an action star, Sylvester Stallone gave us characters and stories that allowed us to enjoy big explosions, navigate hardship, and still be able to find the sensitivities that lies within whom he portrays.

For those that don't know how he made a niche for himself, this documentary takes you through his beginning acting days, meeting and befriending Henry Winkler, and being willing to play roles where he was typecast just so he could get his foot in the door.

Ultimately, he realized that if he wanted to truly use his gifts in the way that he saw himself, he would need to write, direct, and act in his own movies. Thus, he created the Rocky franchise and the Rambo franchise and proved that he could bring his characters to the screen that we could cheer for as they proved that good could truly prevail over evil.

Sly also shows how he navigated the industry by continuing to act in other films, even if they were outside of how we saw him and how he continued to prove that he could keep pushing the envelope of the franchise with The Expendables!

He also reflects on his life as he continues to do what he loves most. In addition to Sly, there are a number of people who share their thoughts from Quentin Tarantino, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Talia Shire, Henry Winkler and Frank Stallone Jr.

THE WEDDING SCAMMER

The Ringer

Spotify

We enjoy listening to podcasts from The Ringer that includes recaps and analyses on our favorite TV shows.

In their first True Crime podcast, The Wedding Scammer introduces us to the ultimate scammer who has multiple aliases, has left many debts in his wake as well as devestated those in the wedding as well as the publishing industry! Hosted by Justin Sayles, he is on a quest to get his answers.

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SHELTER

Prime Video Series

Prime Video

Bestselling mystery and thriller author, Harlan Coben brings his book Shelter as a series as we find out the connection between a family, town, and whether death is as finite as we believe it to be.

We get to know about Mickey Bolitar (Jaden Michael) who goes back to his father's NJ suburban town after his death. Although there is something nostalgic about having his aunt, Shira Bolitar (Constance Zimmer) take care of him, playing basketball in the same school as his dad and making friends. There is something idyllic about this quaint town. Through a series of strange events, disappearances and secrets, he works with his friends Ema (Abigale Corrigan) and Spoon (Adrian Greensmith) to figure out how his dad's death is connected to the unease that continues to grow within him.

SURVIVE THE RAFT

Discovery

Max

We enjoy a good reality competition show that shifts the social experimentation paradigm! The premise of Survive the Raft is inspired by the 1973 Acali Experiment by Mexican anthropologist, Santiago Genovés. He curated a group of people from varying backgrounds to see how they would come together, live, work, and accomplish goals. The experiment had a lot of conflict and tensions.

With this experiment and the studies that resulted from it, this competition builds on that and is hosted by Nate Boyer (US Army Green Beret, NFL Seattle Seahawks, Mayans MC) who announces the challenges to the contestants who live on the raft and work together in order to win money for the group. The contestants do a series of challenges, navigate conflicts and even have opportunities to win money for themselves without the group knowing or to stay true to the assignment to build the pot for everyone to share equally. It's a game of the ultimate believe in unity as well as questioning whether those you came in with should stay or be swapped with those that are a better fit!

PAINKILLERS

Netflix Originals

Netflix

Painkillers, a Netflix Original Series focuses on the opioid epidemic that we have been navigating for the last few decades. The availability of these drugs comes with immense consequences and this series follows all who are involved from the companies that make the drugs, the victims that use it, those who are related to users who are also caught up the effects and the investigation of how all of these elements converge together.

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FULL CIRCLE

Max Original

Max

We've been enjoying the limited series, Full Circle directed by Academy Award winning director, Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven franchise, Her, The Girlfriend Experience) whose cast includes Timothy Olyphant (Justified, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Amsterdam), Claire Danes (The Hours, Homeland, Fleishman in Trouble), Dennis Quaid (The Long Game, Goliath, Lawmen: Bass Reeves), Zazie Beets (Atlanta, Joker, Bullet Train), CCH Pounder (Face Off, Sons of Anarchy, NCIS New Orleans), Jim Gaffigan (Luca, Tesla, Peter Pan & Wendy), and Phaldut Sharma (EastEnders, Avenue 5, The Personal History of David Copperfield).

Each episode looks at how a series of events are more connected than what you may think and how these actions that are done in plain site and in secret, converge! You can binge all the episodes now to see what goes around comes around regardless of who you are.

FIVE STAR CHEF

Netflix Originals

Netflix

We always love a food competition show and in Five Star Chef, we get to know more about the fine dining world and how Langham Hotel in London executes their vision. Each challenge focuses on another portion of the menu and the kinds of dishes that they offer. We also get to see key staff at the property, how they present the service of the hotel to guests as well as well known people in the industry!

All episodes can be enjoyed now and we hope that there will be an additional season whether it's at this hotel or another 5-Star property that we'll have on our list to visit next!

L.A. MADE: THE BARBIE TAPES

LAist Studios

Spotify

We've all seen a number of promotions that have been focused around the Barbie movie that dropped on July 21st. We've been listening to L.A. Made's The Barbie Tapes by LAist Studios which looks at the origin story of this doll. Birthed from a European doll that was a gag gift of sorts and meant to be an adult sexy toy, it would transform to a doll that has been a symbol for many everywhere in terms of occupational roles, the proof that women can do anything as well as being increasingly more representative by showcasing an array of sizes, abilities, race, and more.

This podcast also goes into the business of Barbie and how the team created and infused these concepts of her that we continue to enjoy in the present day.

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BLACK MIRROR

Netflix Series

Netflix

It's been awhile but Black Mirror is back with 5 new episodes that let you think about connectivity, technology, interpersonal relationships and so much more! This season we're left with wondering about the extent of privacy and how by giving it out, we may be allowing more access to who we are then we ever thought! We also look at how much our love for True Crime may uncover secrets and behaviors that we never thought that those who we know have! It also makes us think about how the act of assisting someone or giving time to others can have adverse affects. We found that we were able to binge all the episodes in one weekend day and left our screens wondering about these themes as well as hoping that there would be another season to keep us pondering soon!

AND JUST LIKE THAT

Max Original

HBO/Max + Spotify

Fans of Sex and the City were treated to And Just Like That last year which picked up with the our favorite ladies of NYC. We returned to them last year in new circumstances as well as bringing in new friends to shake up what we knew about them and to diversify their lives!

This month, the second season is back with more stories to tell, more challenges to take on, and to to continue to strive to live their best lives with an array of nuances!

As you know, this show also has a podcast companion series which takes us into the writer's room to talk in depth about each episode as well as to talk about how they approached writing the episode, whose personal experiences it was based on and how it ties into art, styling and more. Episodes of this spin-off series drop weekly and if you missed anything, you can catch up on Max for this series as well as Sex and the City. Also listen to the podcast show on your favorite platforms.

HIDDEN SIGNAL:EVERGREEN

QCODE

Spotify

We're enjoying another immersive audio drama from QCODE has been released and it takes us to the end and possible beginning of the world in Hidden Signal: Evergreen. Hidden Signal is an Anthology for QCODE and Evergreen focuses on a hand selected team of the world's greatest minds who are trapped in a subterranean biosphere. They realize that on Earth, an asteroid has destroyed the surface and that they are tasked to create a new society. Mistrust abounds among the group and the line between hero and villain is not easily seen in this fictional podcast. With so much uncertainty, can they come together and trust one another?

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