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Prime Video will premiere One Night in Idaho: The College Murders on Thursday, July 11, 2025. The four-part docuseries investigates the killings of four University of Idaho students in November 2022, a case that drew national attention and remains one of the most widely discussed campus tragedies in recent history. Directed by Liz Garbus and […]

One Night in Idaho Prime Video Docuseries Examines 2022 College Murders...

Prime Video’s four-part documentary series One Night in Idaho: The College Murders explores the shocking deaths of four college students in Moscow, Idaho. Featuring new interviews with friends and families of the victims, including the parents of Ethan Chapin and Madison Mogen, One Night in Idaho premieres on July 11, 2025 with the release of all four episodes.

Liz Garbus (I’ll Be Gone in the Dark) and Matthew Galkin (Murder in the Bayou) direct the docuseries and serve as executive producers. Additional executive producers include Katie A. King, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Matt Thunell, Dan Cogan, Jon Bardin, Kate Barry, Mala Chapple, James Patterson, Bill Robinson, and Patrick Santa.

Prime Video offers this description of the documentary series:

“On November 13th, 2022—in the still of the night—four University of Idaho students are brutally stabbed to death in an off-campus house in the quiet college town of Moscow, Idaho. Within the...

Nonfiction entertainment workers who are members of the Writers Guild of America East have ratified a first union agreement with prestige documentary company Story Syndicate.

Story Syndicate employees who belong to the WGA East, roughly 30 in total, many of them producers, unanimously voted to greenlight the deal after it was reached June 6.

Founded in 2019 by husband-and-wife creative duo Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan, Story Syndicate has become a go-to producer of glossy streaming documentaries in recent years, from Netflix’s Icarus and Britney vs Spears to Hulu’s Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence. The company’s latest is Titan: The Oceangate Disaster, which premiered on Netflix on June 11.

In a statement, Garbus and Cogan called the company’s first WGA contract a “win-win.” The deal, they said, “opens up access to portable healthcare for our freelancers, as well as many other provisions that support our workers’ well-being...

In the early morning of Nov. 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their off campus home. Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were all members of the school’s Greek life and beloved by their campus community, which turned the weeks after their murders into a frenzy of national media attention and online speculation surrounding one topic: The Idaho Murders.

Despite releasing little information about the investigative process, police in Moscow, Idaho eventually arrested primary suspect Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old criminology graduate student at Washington State University.

The Titan submersible’s doomed voyage is the focus of the trailer for the Netflix documentary Titan: The OceanGate Disaster.

Director Mark Monroe’s feature is set to premiere at the Tribeca Festival on June 6 before it begins streaming June 11. The film hails from the Story Syndicate team that is also behind such previous projects as Take Care of Maya, Gone Girls and Britney v Spears.

Titan: The OceanGate Disaster examines the mindset of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and his determination to become a leader in oceanic exploration. Through whistleblower testimony, audio recordings and footage from the company’s beginnings, the film offers fresh perspective on the implosion of the Titan submersible that commanded the world’s attention in June 2023. Rush was among the five people who died aboard the vessel while it was off the coast of Canada during a voyage to the Titanic wreckage.

“There was no way...

Striving for greatness is one of the most admirable acts of humankind, but if left unchecked, ambition could become a weapon that ultimately leads to failure. Today, Netflix‘s Titan: The Oceangate Disaster trailer investigates the ill-advised and deadly voyage of a submersible heading below the depths in an attempt to revolutionize tourism for the world-famous Titanic tragedy.

Here’s the official synopsis for Titan: The Oceangate Disaster courtesy of Netflix:

“The Titan submersible’s ill-fated journey to the ruins of the Titanic dominated headlines in June 2023, yet the shocking decisions that led to the disaster have never been revealed like this. Titan: The OceanGate Disaster delves into the psyche of billionaire OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and explores his relentless quest to bring oceanic exploration to the masses — at any cost. Through exclusive access to whistleblower testimony, pivotal audio recordings, and footage from the company’s early days, the film...

After giving the world two years to breathe following the devastating, fatal OceanGate tragedy, Netflix is releasing a documentary about what went wrong underwater. “Titan: The OceanGate Disaster” hails from Story Syndicate, the producing team behind “Gone Girls” and “Britney v Spears.” Mark Monroe directs the feature which will premiere at the Tribeca Festival on June 6 before streaming on Netflix June 11.

The Titan submersible was voyaging to the ruins of the Titanic in June 2023. All of the members onboard died. The submersible was operated by American sea tourism and expedition company OceanGate; the Titan went missing for four days while carrying five passengers, including OceanGate CEO Rush. On June 22, debris of the vessel was discovered on the ocean floor.

The synopsis for the doc reads: “‘Titan: The Oceangate Disaster’ delves into the psyche of billionaire OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and explores his relentless quest to bring oceanic exploration to the masses — at any cost.

Good American Family ended its run with a sizable audience on Disney+ and Hulu.

The finale drove 6.3M globally in its first six days of streaming, making it the biggest finale of the year across the two streamers, per Disney.

In fact, Disney also says its the third most-viewed finale ever for a Hulu Original, though the company didn’t give details on the top two finales for comparison.

Good American Family, which dramatizes the headline-capturing adoption of Natalia Grace, did appear to be generating quite a bit of buzz for Disney, consistently ranking in the top five on the Hulu Top 15 Today list every day since launch. That success carried over into social platforms as well, where the series scored the most TikTok engagements, shares, and new followers of all scripted Hulu Originals in 2025.

Told from multiple points of view, as a means to explore issues of perspective, bias,...

The finale of “Good American Family,” the Hulu limited series based on the adoption of Natalia Grace, reached 6.3 million views in its first six days of streaming.

That makes the episode Hulu’s third-most-watched finale of all time, as well as the biggest finale of 2025 thus far across both Hulu and Disney+, according to Disney. These comparisons are based on data gathered across all season finales, not first seasons or final seasons alone, with views being calculated by dividing total time streamed by an episode’s runtime.

“Good American Family” stars Ellen Pompeo, Mark Duplass and Imogen Faith Reid as the Barnett family. Per the logline, the series follows “a Midwestern couple who adopts a girl with a rare form of dwarfism. But as they begin to raise her alongside their three biological children, mystery emerges around her age and background, and they slowly start to suspect she may not...

[This story contains spoilers from the Good American Family season finale.]

Now that Good American Family has released its final episode, viewers have seen the full intent of the Hulu’s narrative project about Natalia Grace.

The eight-episode limited series, which is inspired by Grace’s viral real-life story, was first told from the perspectives of Kristine and Michael Barnett, the Indiana husband-and-wife who adopted Ukrainian-born Grace in 2010, and who are played by Ellen Pompeo and Mark Duplass. Halfway through, the series flipped to being told from the point of view of Grace, played by Imogen Faith Reid, and later introduced Grace’s next adoptive parent Cynthia Mans, played by Christina Hendricks.

The differing perspectives, which proved to be contradictory, had been promised by creator Katie Robbins. “We start the story in Kristine and Michael Barnett’s version of events and that slowly starts to shift over time, and we’re led to question if our...

Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers for “Too Hurty Without It,” Episode 5 of “Good American Family,” now streaming on Hulu.

Living in England, “Good American Family” actress Imogen Faith Reid had never heard of Natalia Grace. “There was one story,” she says, about scouring the British media before her audition. It wasn’t until she got the part that Reid discovered Natalia’s story and all that had happened.

The Hulu series is a dramatization of the real-life events of Kristine (Ellen Pompeo) and Michael Barnett (Mark Duplass), the couple who adopted Natalia, a Ukrainian orphan with a rare and severe form of dwarfism. Each episode unfolds in flashback form, exploring what happened after the adoption. After exploring the Barnetts’ perspective, and recounting the events that led to them eventually being accused of neglect, in this week’s “Good American Family,” the series shifts to Natalia’s point of view.

Spoiler Alert! This post contains details from Episode 5 of Hulu’s Good American Family.

The latest episode of Hulu’s Good American Family challenges audiences own biases by flipping the script on the dominating narrative in the Natalia Grace case over the past decade.

After four episodes of seeing Natalia through the eyes of Kristine and Michael Barnett, Episode 5 begins to show us what life was like from Natalia’s perspective during the years where she was abandoned by her adoptive parents and forced to live on her own as a child.

“I think that there’s a lot to say about her experience and what it reflects back on society. I think that what happened to Natalia would not have happened had she not had dwarfism, had she not had a disability, and had people not made assumptions based on growth patterns in people of average stature,” creator Katie Robbins...

Note: This story contains spoilers for “Good American Family” Episode 5.

“Good American Family” put the spotlight on Kristine and Michael Barnett for the first half of its run on Hulu. With Episode 5, viewers get a painful look into their adoptive daughter Natalia Grace’s perspective.

Titled “Too Hurty Without It,” the episode picks up with Natalia Grace (Imogen Faith Read) after Kristine (Ellen Pompeo) and Michael (Mark Duplass) dropped her off at the apartment they rented for her after legally changing her age to 22. But rather than staying on the point of view of the parents, the show stays with Natalia — an 8-year-old girl with dwarfism left to her own devices.

The harrowing installment follows Natalia struggling to keep up with her cleanliness — including washing her hair with dish soap in the sink because she can’t work the faucet for the shower — and relying on perishables, all the while...

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Netflix has dropped a true crime series that’s sending shivers down viewers’ spines but not in a cheap-thrill kind of way. ‘Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer,’ a three-part documentary that quietly premiered on March 31, has already made a thunderous impact. With just a week in, it’s already being hailed as one of the most harrowing entries in the platform’s true crime catalog.

Inside the 30 year hunt for a serial killer who targeted sex workers.

From Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus comes Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, premiering March 31 pic.twitter.com/BfWPNmxeh0

— Netflix (@netflix) March 12, 2025

A Decades-Long Nightmare Finally Gets the Spotlight

The series, set against the haunting backdrop of New York state between 1993 and 2011, dives deep into a chilling string of 11 murders, most of them being female sex workers. Their disappearances were...

Lost Girls was a searing drama based on the true story of one mother's fight for justice. The Gone Girls documentary series expands on that story with the benefit of all that's been revealed in the past five years—and it's been a lot.

Let me be upfront here, fam. Neither of these shows is going to top your list of feel-good entertainment. The movie Lost Girls and the three-part series Gone Girls are so intertwined that I had to review both. For one thing, they cover the same story, although the newly released documentary goes into much more detail than the movie.

Liz Garbus directed both the movie and the series, so she brings a very special sensibility to the documentary. The 2020 film was her first narrative work, but it's so artfully crafted that you'd never know it. She had directed dozens of documentaries before this, including Love, Marilyn,...

Netflix’s docuseries “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer,” directed by Liz Garbus, delves into the chilling case of the Gilgo Beach murders that haunted Long Island, New York, from 1993 to 2011. Premiering on March 31, 2025, this three-part series offers an in-depth examination of the disappearances and deaths of multiple women, primarily sex workers, whose remains were discovered along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach. The documentary sheds light on the victims’ stories, the prolonged investigation, and the systemic challenges faced by their families in seeking justice. It also explores the 2023 arrest of Rex Heuermann, a New York City architect, in connection with these crimes.

Plot Overview of the Netflix Documentary

“Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer” provides a comprehensive narrative of the Gilgo Beach murders through interviews with the victims’ families, friends, and journalists who covered the case. The series highlights the initial discovery of four women’s bodies in 2010, known as the “Gilgo Four,...

Netflix Chart-Topping Shakeup! (Photo Credit – Instagram/YouTube)

Stephen Graham’s Adolescence took the world by storm when it dropped on Netflix on March 13, dominating global charts and raking in millions of views. But even the most popular shows have to make way for the next big thing.

A chilling new true-crime documentary, Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, has now taken over. It snatched the top spot in the UK while securing a strong second-place position in the US, only trailing behind WWE Raw.

A Chilling True-Crime Mystery

According to the synopsis, the three-part series unearths the haunting story of young women in the sex industry who vanished without a trace in New York City and Long Island. The horrifying discovery of human remains at Gilgo Beach in 2010 set off a years-long investigation, riddled with corruption and dead ends.

Inside the 30 year hunt for a serial killer who targeted sex workers.

Netflix continues to produce true crime content as fast as viewers can digest it. It seems like a month doesn’t go by without a new docuseries chronicling a devastating turn of events. Speaking of, a true crime program called Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer debuted on the platform on March 31, 2025, and it’s already the most-watched show on the streamer.

Some of the buzz around this new series comes from the fact that the case is still playing out in real time. The show profiles the suspected victims of New York architect and alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann. Police arrested Heuermann in 2023 on multiple murder charges. The defendant pled not guilty. The case has yet to go to trial. However, pre-trial hearings are currently underway.

Liz Garbus directed the series, with Robert Kolker taking the sole writing credit. The program is based on his book, Lost Girls.

Netflix has a knack for pulling us into gripping true-crime stories, and their latest dive into the dark world of unsolved mysteries is no exception. ‘Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer,’ a three-part docuseries that hit the platform, takes us to the eerie shores of Long Island, New York. Directed by Liz Garbus, this series isn’t just about chasing a killer—it’s about the victims, their families, and a justice system that took too long to act. If you’ve been hooked on crime tales before, this one’s got a raw edge that’ll keep you watching.

The story kicks off with a missing woman in 2010, a case that unraveled into something much bigger—bodies found along a lonely beach, a community shaken, and a hunt that stretched over decades. Garbus, who’s no stranger to this tale after directing the 2020 film ‘Lost Girls,’ brings a fresh angle here.

Spoiler Alert: This story contains details about the Gilgo Beach murders case and details about “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer” docuseries, now streaming on Netflix.

Liz Garbus remembers exactly where she was the day she learned Mari Gilbert had been killed.

In 2016, the Oscar-nominated documentarian was at a dinner with a few journalist friends when she got the text from author Robert Kolker that Gilbert had been killed by her daughter Sarra during the chaos of Sarra’s psychotic break. Garbus was in the midst of adapting Kolker’s book “Lost Girls” into a film, and had met Gilbert once a year earlier. The force-of-nature mother and activist left quite the impression — and was at the center of the story Garbus would be telling about a prolific serial killer on Long Island, New York who had not yet been caught.

“The whole dinner just kind of stopped when I mentioned it,...

You read that right, dear viewer. Netflix is adding no less than 38 movies and shows to their rotation this week. And if you think I'm giving a detailed synopsis of every new arrival, well... in the immortal words of Ms. Kimberly Wilkins, "Ain't nobody got time for that."

Holy Hannah. After last week, I'm used to a lighter workload. Granted, most of these properties aren't new, just new to Netflix. There are certainly a lot of classic films in the group, so I'll hit the highlights. Or at least a dozen of them. Maybe even a baker's dozen, lucky you.

Netflix closes out March with three original titles, then bombards us with 27 features on April Fool's Day. Unless they're doing some weird meta-promotion, and not releasing anything on April 1st. Speaking of April Fool's - I've included one fake title in the list. Hopefully, you'll be able to discover it without too much trouble.

Updated: Hamdan Ballal and his fellow “No Other Land” filmmakers are expressing gratitude to top members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for signing a letter urging Academy leadership to take a stronger stance in condemning an attack on Ballal by Israeli settlers.

The Academy released a statement Wednesday condemning “harming artists” but did not name the individuals involved. By Thursday morning, a letter began circulating among AMPAS members criticizing the Academy’s leadership for failing to publicly support Ballal.

As of Monday afternoon, nearly 900 Academy members — including actor Mark Ruffalo, director Ava DuVernay and Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón — had signed the letter denouncing the Academy’s silence following Ballal’s reported detainment by Israeli authorities. Most recent signatories include J.J. Abrams, Guillermo del Toro, Ben Affleck, Jane Fonda and more.

Ballal and his fellow “No Other Land” directors shared the following letter with all the signatories:

Dear friends,...

When 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert called 911 on May 1, 2010, she was absolutely frantic. An escort, Gilbert was on Oak Beach, Long Island for a date with a first-time client named Joseph Brewer when she became distressed, eventually screaming in the call to authorities, “they’re trying to kill me.” When she was last seen, she had run from Brewer and her driver Michael Pak, before knocking on several neighbors’ doors for help and running off into the dark.

Gilbert was a sex worker. She was a diagnosed bipolar who was reportedly not taking her medication.

“No Other Land” co-director Yuval Abraham is detailing what he claims is the lack of support from the Academy for fellow Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal after he was attacked by settlers while in the West Bank and then taken by Israeli soldiers.

Abraham and Ballal co-directed “No Other Land,” which showed the systematic territorial dispossession of a Palestinian community in the West Bank. The film won Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Oscars. Palestinian director Ballal was beaten by Israeli settlers at his Susiya home on March 24 and was later detained by authorities. The Israel Defense Forces and Israel Police have denied being involved in any beating. Israeli authorities said that Ballal was detained along with several others on suspicion of throwing stones, damaging property and compromising the security of the area. Ballal was later freed and received hospital treatment on March 25.

Now, Israeli director Abraham is calling out the Academy...

No Other Land co-director Yuval Abraham has claimed that the “US Academy, which awarded us an Oscar three weeks ago, declined to publicly support Hamdan Ballal while he was beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and settlers”.

Israeli filmmaker Abraham, who has been active on X in recent days documenting the attack on his co-director Ballal, drew a contrast today between the Academy’s silence and support from The European Academy and “countless other award groups and festivals”. He added: “Several US Academy members—especially in the documentary branch—pushed for a statement, but it was ultimately refused. We were told that because other Palestinians were beaten up in the settler attack, it could be considered unrelated to the film, so they felt no need to respond.”

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Abraham called on the Academy to condemn the attack: “While Hamdan was clearly targeted for making No Other Land...

Following his attack by Israeli settlers and subsequent arrest by Israeli authorities, Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal — the co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land — has been freed.

“After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family,” Ballal’s co-director Yuval Abraham wrote on X. It was Abraham’s posts that helped circulate the news of Ballal’s attack, which occurred just outside his West Bank village home.

Abraham first reported on Monday, March 24 that Ballal was “lynched,...

No Other Land’s Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal has been freed, after reportedly being attacked by Israeli settlers in his village on the West Bank and arrested.

Ballal’s Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham posted on X in the past hour: “After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.”

Abraham raised the alarm of Ballal’s assault and detainment in a military base yesterday (March 24).

“After the assault, Hamdan was handcuffed and blindfolded all night in an army base while two soldiers beat him up on the floor,...

One of the co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land was injured and detained after a conflict that took place on the West Bank.

Israeli director Yuval Abraham claimed on X on Monday that a group of settlers had beaten Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, who was later detained by members of the Israeli military. “He has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding,” Abraham wrote.

Tuesday morning, Abraham, who co-directed No Other Land with Ballal, posted an update to say that Ballal had been released. “After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family,” he wrote.

The violence took place on Monday night in the village of Susiya, which is Ballal’s hometown, in the Masafer Yatta area. The activist group Center for Jewish Nonviolence said later that day that after residents of...

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been freed after being detained and beaten, according to the documentary’s Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham.

Hamdan Ballal is free and is about to go home to his family

— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) March 25, 2025

After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.

— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) March 25, 2025

Fellow No Other Land director Basel Adra has posted an image of Ballal in hospital receiving treatment.

Abraham claimed in a post to X today that their co-director was “handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base”. In an earlier post the director said he spoke to Ballal’s lawyer Leah Tsemel who conveyed the report of him being beaten by authorities.

In a separate differing account,...

Update: Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning Israel-Palestine documentary “No Other Land,” has been freed, according to the latest post from co-director Yuval Abraham.

“After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family,” Abraham posted on X on Tuesday.

Previously: A petition to free Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning Israel-Palestine documentary “No Other Land,” has gathered more than 3,700 signatures on Change.org.

Ballal is reportedly missing after being attacked, according to a series of posts on X from co-director Yuval Abraham.

“We, members of the global film community urgently appeal for the immediate release and safety of filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, co-director of ‘No Other Land,’ the recipient of this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Reports that Mr. Ballal was forcibly removed by the Israeli army from an ambulance following a brutal attack by settlers,...

Last Updated on March 24, 2025

Plot: Told from multiple points of view, as a means to explore issues of perspective, bias, and trauma, this compelling drama is inspired by the disturbing stories surrounding a Midwestern couple who adopts a girl with a rare form of dwarfism. But as they begin to raise her alongside their three biological children, mystery emerges around her age and background, and they slowly start to suspect she may not be who she says she is. As they defend their family from the daughter they’ve grown to believe is a threat, she fights her own battle to confront her past and what her future holds, in a showdown that ultimately plays out in the tabloids and the courtroom.

Review: The idea that there are two sides to every story has never been truer than in the bizarre saga of Natalia Grace. Adopted at the age of seven,...

The first two episodes of Hulu's ripped-from-the-headlines limited series Good American Family debuted on the streamer March 19 — and critics are divided.

The "mad and messy saga" is based on the story of Natalia Grace (played by newcomer Imogen Faith Reid), a Ukrainian-born orphan with a rare form of dwarfism who is adopted by a Midwestern family — only to be abandoned a year later when they start to suspect she may not be who she says she is. Golden Globe nominee Ellen Pompeo (Grey's Anatomy) executive produces and stars as Kristine Barnett, Natalia's adoptive mother, and Emmy winner Mark Duplass (The Morning Show) plays Michael Barnett, Kristine's optimistic husband. The project also features Christina Hendricks, Sarayu Blue, and Dulé Hill.

Told from multiple perspectives, Good American Family currently has a 40 percent at Rotten Tomatoes and a "generally favorable" MetaCritic score of 63 (based on eight reviews). Critics are split...

From a business standpoint, it’s rarely much of a mystery why this ripped-from-the-headlines true-crime miniseries or that one exists. The subjects are already household names. The topics at hand, typically scammers or serial killers, spark seemingly endless fascination. Make it polished enough, and it could go all the way to the Emmys. You can practically hear the studio exec arguing that not making this show would be leaving money and prestige on the table.

If the bottom-line calculus is clear, however, the creative impetus isn’t always. Just as often as not, what results from this impulse to lightly fictionalize a recent news story is an overly straightforward telling of the same facts we’ve been barraged with already. Maybe there’s a version of the Natalia Grace saga that could cast a new light on an already extensively covered case, or simply add enough panache to make it feel worth revisiting again.

Hulu jumpstarted its Emmys campaign for the limited series Good American Family on Thursday — rolling out the red carpet for a special premiere at the Directors Guild of America Theater Complex in Los Angeles. The ripped-from-the-headlines drama tells the story of Natalia Grace, a Ukrainian-born orphan with a rare form of dwarfism who is adopted by a Midwestern family — only to be abandoned a year later when they start to suspect she may not be who she says she is. The eight-episode series debuts March 19 on Hulu.

Following a screening of the first episode, "Almost Like a Prayer," star and executive producer Ellen Pompeo (Kristine Barnett), joined Mark Duplass (Michael Barnett), Imogen Faith Reid (Natalia Grace), Christina Hendricks (Cynthia Mans), Sarayu Blue (Valika), Dulé Hill (Det. Brandon Drysdale), Katie Robbins, Sarah Sutherland (showrunner and executive producer), and Liz Garbus (director) for a Q&a moderated by Emily Longeretta (Variety). (Watch the full panel video below.

Young women who worked in the sex industry were disappearing from New York City and Long Island and their families were desperate for answers. Then in 2010, female remains were found in the Gilgo Beach area of Long Island, leading to a string of additional discoveries at a virtual dumping ground steps away from New York’s busiest beaches. Despite all of this, the case of the “Long Island serial killer” remained unsolved for 13 years — until July 2023, when a major break came after corruption was rooted out within the police responsible for the case. From two-time Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (Lost Girls) comes the definitive look at the twists and turns in a case that dominated headlines, and is still developing in real time.

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Lost Girls director Liz Garbus returns to focus on a corrupt criminal system and crime victims and their families seeking justice in the trailer for Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, which bows on Netflix March 31.

The 2020 Lost Girls movie for Netflix that starred Amy Ryan centered on a mother searching for her missing daughter in Long Island and who makes a horrifying discovery in the woods where the murdered bodies of four girls had been dumped.

Gone Girls, also for Netflix and set to bow March 31, is also based on the famously unsolved Long Island serial murders, and Garbus brings her cameras again to a troubled police investigation that left friends and family of disappeared and forgotten women in the sex industry denied justice.

“There were red flags, one after the other, as to what was not looked into by the police,” one commentator says in the trailer for Gone Girls,...

Netflix has shared the first trailer for Gone Girls, the upcoming docuseries about the Long Island Serial Killer.

First announced back in August 2023, just a month after the arrest of Lisk suspect Rex Heuermann, Gone Girls finds filmmaker Liz Garbus — who directed the 2020 dramatized film Lost Girls about the murders — returning to Gilgo Beach to revisit Lisk’s decades-long reign of terror and the missteps by police that could have ended his killing spree of sex workers earlier.

“Young women who worked in the sex industry were disappearing from New York City and Long Island,...

With Love, Meghan has had a lot of press coverage. But the lifestyle series fronted by Meghan Markle struggled in the ratings, only just sneaking into Netflix’s top ten weekly ratings chart.

The eight-part series reached 12.6M hours viewed in its first week on the streamer. This was number ten behind ratings leader Kate Hudson-led comedy Running Point, which had 61.8M hours viewed across the week.

This was significantly down on the ratings for Harry & Meghan, which premiered in December 2022 and became Netflix’s biggest documentary debut ever. That series, which was directed by Liz Garbus, debuted with 81.6M hours viewed in its first three days and adding another 97.7M in its first full week on the service as well as 39.7M in its second full week on Netflix.

Live To Lead, a documentary series produced by the pair, failed to hit the top ten on Netflix...

Acclaimed actor Christina Ricci is now among the many stars immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame following a decorated film and TV career. Not only has acting given the Yellowjackets star success and fame, but she credits the industry for saving her from a tumultuous childhood.

Speaking with Variety about her Walk of Fame induction, which she called a "profoundly meaningful" moment in her decades-long career, Ricci opened up about her love for acting and what it did for her professionally and personally. Ricci admitted that becoming a film star gave her renewed purpose after a "not very nice" childhood with a family she didn't feel safe around. Having landed key roles in Mermaids, Casper and The Addams Family as a young actor, she showed she could handle the spotlight from an early age. However, she had to overcome the toxicity of home life to deliver on-screen.

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Netflix produced its first non-documentary feature in 2015. It was called Beasts of No Nation, and it was fine. However, the film did not get nominated for an Academy Award. Lots has changed in the last decade.

Your favorite streamer often gets nominated for major awards each year. 2025 is no different. Emilia Pérez has 13 nominations alone, including one for Best Picture. So far, Netflix has yet to get a win in that category, and Emilia Pérez is not the favorite this year, either.

In fact, Netflix has also almost been entirely shut out of wins in the acting categories. Only Laura Dern won, and that was for Best Supporting Actress in 2020. But the streamer does do well in some other categories. Those might not be part of the Big 6, but when it comes to documentaries, Netflix knows what it is doing. Just see below, and you'll know.

The 2025 Oscars will be held on Sunday,...

The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets Season 3, Episode 4, "12 Angry Girls and 1 Drunk Travis," now streaming on Paramount+ and debuting Sunday, March 1 on Showtime.

Yellowjackets' present storyline features many of the survivors as adults, navigating seemingly normal life while still emotionally burdened by their wrongdoings in the woods. Shauna Shipman experiences the most change from her younger to adult self. And when she begins to unleash her teenage, feral side in the present day, it's her husband Jeff Sadecki and daughter Callie Sadecki that are affected. Jeff remains supportive of Shauna even in her worst moments, while Shauna's relationship with Callie is a bumpier road.

In the Yellowjackets Season 3 premiere, Callie spills pig guts on her high school classmates -- an incident resembling the same rage teenage Shauna had. It's possible that Shauna has unknowingly created a miniature version of herself in Callie, while Jeff is far from the type to...

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Yellowjackets has proven that no one is safe with the tragic death of adult Natalie (Juliette Lewis) at the end of Season 2. With Season 3 well underway after an almost two-year wait, fans have had time to process the death of one of the only surviving women from the ordeal in the wilderness 25 years earlier. But in Season 3, Episode 4, entitled “12 Angry Girls and 1 Drunk Travis,” there was another shocking death, and it was one no one saw coming.

This death will likely serve as a catalyst for everything that happens through the remainder of the series in at least one of the timelines. And that will include an investigation into who would have killed this person.

Today, Apple TV+ revealed the trailer for the two-part documentary film event Number One on the Call Sheet, premiering on Friday, March 28. With unprecedented access and candid interviews, Number One on the Call Sheet takes us on an intimate journey with some of Hollywood’s most extraordinary leading Black men and women.

They shine a light on the joys and challenges of being a Black actor, share breakthrough moments, discuss blueprints for success, and honor legends while recognizing the next generation’s enormous potential.

Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated Angela Bassett shares, “‘Number One on the Call Sheet’ celebrates the grit, strength and brilliance of those who came before us while uplifting the next generation. It’s an honor to pay homage to the legends, and shine a light on the limitless possibilities ahead for Black and brown talent.”

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Today, Apple TV+ revealed the trailer for the highly anticipated two-part documentary film event Number One on the Call Sheet, premiering on Friday, March 28. With unprecedented access and candid interviews, Number One on the Call Sheet takes us on an intimate journey with some of Hollywood’s most extraordinary leading Black men and women as they shine a light on the joys and challenges of being a Black actor, share breakthrough moments, discuss blueprints for success, and honor legends, while recognizing the next generation’s enormous potential.

Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men In Hollywood and Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Women In Hollywood deliver an in-depth look at some of Hollywood’s biggest stars as they reveal their journeys to game-changing leading roles. The films are produced for Apple by Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Datari Turner and Dan Cogan. Jamie Foxx produces through...

It was a story that shook Hollywood: A scene gone wrong on an independent film killed a rising cinematographer, with a well-known star holding the prop gun that fired the fatal bullet.

Now, a documentary revisiting the death of Halyna Hutchins on the 2021 set of Rust is set to shine a light on the cinematographer and the human toll that the tragedy took on those around her. Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna will feature emotional conversations with Rust director Joel Souza, camera assistant Lane Luper, costume designer Terese Davis and the film’s new cinematographer Bianca Cline talking about the day of Hutchins’ death and the aftermath, the film’s first trailer demonstrated on Monday.

The trailer features police bodycam footage from the investigation of the death, news coverage of the story and what appears to be behind-the-scenes video from Rust. “What people really wanted from this is entertainment,...

Hulu has shared the trailer and key art for the documentary film Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna, which will begin streaming on the service on March 11.

On October 21, 2021, on the set of the movie Rust, a prop gun held by actor Alec Baldwin fired a live bullet, wounding the film’s director and killing its cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins.

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Within hours, the catastrophic accident was enveloped by a frenzy of media attention. For months, then years, as lawsuits flew and criminal trials unfolded, the tabloid spectacle around the case overshadowed a private, personal tragedy.

In Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna, Halyna’s friend, director Rachel Mason, goes beyond the public narrative to reveal the untold human story of that terrible day and all that followed — from the vantage point of the people at the center of the tragedy.

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Starring and executive produced by Grey’s Anatomy icon, Ellen Pompeo, Good American Family has just dropped its first trailer.

According to Hulu, the drama is “inspired by multiple stories, perspectives, threats and accusations.”

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The series previously had a working title of Orphan, but has now officially been titled, Good American Family. Starred in and executive produced by Grey’s Anatomy’s Ellen Pompeo, the series is set to air in eight episodes.

Meanwhile, the series is inspired by the true story of Natalia Grace and the Midwestern couple who adopted her believing she was a little girl with dwarfism. However, things are far more complicated as gradually, it is revealed that she may not be who she said she was.

The series is set to premiere on Wednesday, March 19 with two episodes, followed by one episode weekly. Natalia Grace...

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Fans of Yellowjackets might recall that the second season was an odd nine episodes long, one fewer than the first season and the currently airing third season, both of which run 10 episodes. Following the Season 2 finale, fans were promised a bonus episode that would air between Season 2 and 3 to tie things together. Months passed, then more than a year, almost two, and nothing ever came to fruition. Season 3 debuted, and that bonus episode seems to be lost in television purgatory.

There’s still no confirmation that the mysterious bonus episode will ever see the light of day, and with Season 3 now underway, it’s becoming more and more unlikely. However, it was needed. And in one sense, could potentially still happen.

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Kim Shaw is set for a heavily recurring role in Good American Family, Hulu’s upcoming eight-episode limited drama series inspired by the story of Natalia Grace, starring and executive produced by Ellen Pompeo.

“Told from multiple points of view, as a means to explore issues of perspective, bias, and trauma, Good American Family is inspired by the disturbing stories surrounding a Midwestern couple who adopts a girl with a rare form of dwarfism,” according to the synopsis. “But as they begin to raise her alongside their three biological children, mystery emerges around her age and background, and they slowly start to suspect she may not be who she says she is. As they defend their family from the daughter they’ve grown to believe is a threat, she fights her own battle to confront her past and what her future holds, in a showdown that ultimately plays out in the tabloids and the courtroom.

Yellowjackets made its long-awaited return to Paramount+ with Showtime last week, and Season 3 is already smashing records set by its predecessor. Debuting in 2021, the series tells the tale of a New Jersey high school girls' soccer team that crashed in the Canadian wilderness in 1996, and how – for better or worse – that event helped shape their adult lives 25 years later.

Per Variety, the Season 3 premiere of Yellowjackets amassed over 2 million views across Paramount+ and Showtime last weekend, which is a big increase over the Season 2 premiere back in 2023. According to Paramount Global, the first episode, "It Girl," achieved the series' highest streaming viewership ever, boasting an impressive 58% increase over Season 2's "Friends, Romans, Countrymen."

There are many factors in play as to what went into the huge viewership increase for Yellowjackets Season 3, including the fact that when Season 2 debuted, Showtime was on its own back then before being absorbed into Paramount...