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The Resort (2022)First aired 28 Jul 2022An anniversary holiday becomes an amateur investigation into two teenagers' disappearance years earlier. The resort setting gives guests and staff different relationships with the mystery, while Cristin Milioti and William Jackson Harper make a drifting marriage worth following in its own right.…0
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Enlightened (2011)First aired 10 Oct 2011Laura Dern's Amy returns from treatment determined to live more thoughtfully, without losing her capacity to make other people's days difficult. Mike White gives her wish to help and need to be recognised equal attention. The workplace setting replaces the hotel, but the discomfort around…0
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Big Little Lies (2017)First aired 19 Feb 2017The competitive rituals around a wealthy Californian school turn private relationships into public performances. The women are both observant about one another and capable of missing what is happening at home. Its murder frame offers a familiar hook, but the stronger connection is the social work…0
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Nine Perfect Strangers (2021)First aired 18 Aug 2021People pay for a retreat that promises personal transformation, placing their vulnerability inside somebody else's programme. Begin with the first season's Australian wellness resort for the closest holiday comparison. Nicole Kidman's Masha makes care difficult to separate from control. The mystery…0
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The Perfect Couple (2024)First aired 5 Sept 2024A death interrupts a Nantucket wedding where the wealthy family hosting it has plenty of reasons to manage the story. The contrast between a meticulously arranged celebration and the resentments underneath supplies the appeal. This is a more straightforward, briskly packaged murder mystery than The…0
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The Decameron (2024)First aired 25 Jul 2024Nobles and servants shelter from the plague in a villa, discovering that escaping a crisis does not settle who should do the work. The English-language historical comedy gives class pretensions an increasingly unruly physical form. It is much broader and more grotesque than The White Lotus, but the…0
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The 'Burbs (2026)First aired 8 Feb 2026Keke Palmer's Samira investigates the unease beneath a supposedly safe suburban community. The 2026 series moves the ensemble suspicion away from a luxury holiday and into neighbours' competing versions of belonging. Its mystery and comic personalities matter together, with respectability…0
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Midsummer Night (2024)First aired 11 Apr 2024A family gathering organised around a traditional midsummer celebration becomes a setting for long-kept feelings to emerge. The Norwegian-led series is a gentler, relationship-focused alternative, with no murder required to make the social arrangements revealing. Its five-part shape makes it a…0
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La Maison (2024)First aired 19 Sept 2024A scandal destabilises a French couture house whose family owners have become accustomed to defining taste and acceptable behaviour. Staff, rivals and relatives do not have equal freedom to reinvent themselves. There is no holiday setting, but the clothes and carefully managed spaces make status…0