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Season 2 of The Tourist shifts focus to Ireland with new characters, leaving little room for recurring ones. Ethan Krum undergoes a transformation in Season 2, bringing comedic relief but may not fit in a possible Season 3. Despite his growth, Ethan should be left behind in The Tourist to make room for more important characters.

Warning: Minor spoilers for The Tourist.Season 2 of The Tourist was recently released on Netflix, and since then, the series has sat comfortably within the platform’s Top 10 list. The show’s first season introduced viewers to Elliot Stanley (Jamie Dornan). Following a car wreck in the Australian outback, Elliot is left with no memory of who he is or how he ended up so far away from home. As the season unfolds, he meets Helen Chambers (Danielle Macdonald), a probationary constable investigating his car wreck. Hellbent on helping him figure out what’s going on, she essentially becomes his only friend.

Back in December 2023, Netflix swooped in and acquired season two of the critically acclaimed Australian drama The Tourist after Max passed on picking up the distribution rights after airing the first season. Season one of the riveting drama followed Jamie Dornan (Belfast) as a man with a sketchy past who suffered from amnesia as the result of a car accident that was meant to kill him. And season two, which premieres on February 29, 2024, finds Dornan reprising his role as Elliot alongside Danielle Macdonald as Helen, the only person he could depend on when he couldn’t remember his own name.

Their relationship grew over the course of the first season, and by the finale, they were more than just friends. Now, in season two, Elliot and Helen will be traveling to Ireland, hoping to find answers about Elliot’s identity. “But instead, they are forced to face the dangerous consequences of his past actions,...

Get ready for everything new this February on Netflix!

This month, the streamer will debut its highly anticipated live-action "Avatar: The Last Airbender,” with all eight episodes premiering on Thursday, Feb. 22

Netflix will also get in on the awards season streaming business and will, for the first time, be the exclusive streaming partner for the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, taking place on Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt. This year’s top nominees include “Oppenheimer,” “Barbie,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Succession,” “The Last of Us,” “The Bear,” “Abbott Elementary, and more, with Barbra Streisand receiving the 59th Life Achievement award.

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Alex Dimitriades, Jamie Dornan, and Damon Herriman in The Tourist (Photograph by Ian Routledge/Two Brothers Pictures)

Season two of the Australian thriller The Tourist starring Jamie Dornan has found a new home at Netflix. The BBC series’ first season premiered in the U.S. on HBO Max, but the streamer declined to pick up the distribution rights for season two. Netflix moved in and snatched up the series, setting a February 29, 2024 premiere date for the new season.

Season one’s also coming to Netflix and will be available to binge on February 1, 2024.

The series follows BAFTA and Golden Globe award-nominated Jamie Dornan as Elliot, a man who wakes up in the Australian outback with no idea of who he is or how he got there. Season two finds Elliot and Helen (Danielle Macdonald) heading to Ireland in hopes of discovering more details about his identity. Per Netflix, “instead, they...

Having a main character who can’t remember anything can be an incredibly freeing and constricting prospect all at once. Rarely does a story get the opportunity to follow someone with as close to a blank slate as you can get. But without the shortcuts of a protagonist with a baseline amount of knowledge about themselves, there’s a lot of gaps left to be filled by those on the periphery of that life. When presented the choice between these two possibilities, the new HBO Max original “The Tourist” opts for a heavy dose of the latter. What seems at the outset like a chance for Jamie Dornan to do some heavy existential lifting never quite makes good on that promise. Instead, “The Tourist” eventually settles into a conventional web of TV intrigue with one convenient mind wipe at the center.

“The Tourist” starts out coy, presenting Dornan as a...

Hounds of Love..

In a David and Goliath battle, the screenplays for Ben Young.s debut feature Hounds of Love and Mel Gibson.s Hacksaw Ridge will compete for the original feature film prize at this year.s Awgie Awards.

That pits a low-budgeted film scripted by Young, which has grossed $125,000 in three weeks at six Australian cinemas, against the $US40 million WW2 drama written by Andrew Knight with Robert Schenkkan, which has amassed $US175.3 million worldwide.

There is only one nomination for the feature film adaptation category so the winner almost certainly will be Luke Davies for Lion, based on Saroo Brierley.s memoir.

The 50th Annual Awgie Awards presented by the Australian Writers. Guild will be handed out in Sydney on Friday August 25.

Individual category winners will be eligible for the Major Award, given to the most outstanding script of the year. Past winners have included the writers...

Fancy Boy.

New six-part sketch comedy show.Fancy Boy.commences production in Melbourne this week.

The show stars John Campbell, Stuart Daulman, Greg Larsen, Henry Stone, Jonathan Schuster and Anne Edmonds.

.Fancy Boy made their name as a transgressive and weird live act, willing to go to places others wouldn.t", ABC.s Head of Entertainment Jon Casimir said.

"But what really marks their work is not just the boldness of their intent, it.s the heart and insight that underpins it. Fancy Boy sketches make you laugh but surprisingly, they also make you feel..

Evan Shapiro, the Executive Vice President at NBCUniversal.s Digital Enterprises and head of Us streaming comedy channel Sees, said that .The Fancy Boys are the freshest set of sketch voices I.ve seen in a long time - they are a whole new level of weird, even by Australian standards."

A December Media production...