A director enters into a loop of curiosity when she meets a screenwriter who is as young as she is seductive and mysterious. The author of a podcast decides to investigate crimes that the police did not want or could not solve. A woman with an idyllic life discovers that her husband has disappeared without a trace. Another, directly, wants to hunt down the man who half-cut her throat and gutted her until she was on the verge of death. What do all these premises have in common? That place women at the forefront of the thriller, the ideal genre for actresses looking for a challenge and viewers who want to satiate the intrigue bug.
The screenwriter Alice Birch, with experience in series like Normal People and Succession, sets herself a challenge: to adapt David Cronenberg’s psychological thriller with Jeremy Irons changing the sex of its protagonists. Now the twins in a shady relationship are played by Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, who plays two gynecologists who want to change the way OB/GYN is treated.
This serves to reflect on race and medicine, obstetric violence, experimentation and how capital affects science. Inseparable is not suitable for those who suffer when seeing a pregnant woman in an operating room.
Alice (Ayelet Zurer), a prestigious director, has been away from the cameras for some time: motherhood has blocked her inspiration. When she meets a young screenwriter on the train, Sophie (Lihi Kornowski), who has written a disturbing sexual thriller, she becomes obsessed with the psychological element of the text and her author. To what extent is she reading a biographical experience? Did she meet Sophie by chance? Could it be that the screenwriter is playing both with her and with David (Gal Toren), her husband, who should star in the film?
Lovers of quality erotic thrillers such as Basic Instinct find in the Israeli Losing Alice a treasure of lubricious mind, which evokes suspicion around the production of a film, transmitting sensuality in each scene and with a story development that is not It can be described in another way than masterful.
Hannah (Jennifer Garner) believes she has an ideal life: she is a renowned artist, lives in a house on the sea, and her husband is a handsome widower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). But when Owen’s company is raided, he disappears without a trace of her, asking her for a favor: take care of her hating stepdaughter (Angourie Rice).
Reese Witherspoon, as a producer, knew how to see the potential of Laura Dave’s novel, which adapts her own text. The Last She Said to Me is a simple, conventional thriller that works, especially thanks to Jennifer Garner’s supernatural power to convey humanity and concern throughout as her character tries to find the truth.
In the school of respected actresses who listen carefully to Reese Witherspoon for a playable lead character, we have Octavia Spencer, Oscar winner for Maids and Ladies (and nominee for Hidden Figures and The Shape of Water), who gets into in the skin of the presenter of a podcast that investigates crimes.
Nichelle Tramble Spellman brings a black, cold and stylish perspective to the genre with this Truth be told that has been on the air for three seasons. In the first, Aaron Paul, Lizzie Caplan and Elizabeth Perkins were involved in a case with twins suspected of murders and wrongfully imprisoned Nazis; in the second, a millionaire played by Kate Hudson asks him for help solving the death of her partner; and, in the third, Octavia Spencer investigates the disappearance of young black women, so forgotten by the authorities.
Elisabeth Moss has a gift: showing strength, vulnerability and trauma without the need to use words. In the miniseries Las luminosas, which she played between seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale, she adapts the cult novel by Lauren Beukes: Moss is Kirby, who survived an assassination attempt that left her throat half slit and her guts open, And now she lives obsessed with finding her murderer.
The only problem? That the author of his particular nightmare is Harper (Jamie Bell), a man present in different decades, while Kirby’s reality changes from one day to the next. There are eight episodes that, as this list full of Apple TV titles suggests, consolidates the Cupertino-based content platform in a friendly home for thriller lovers.
Sophie Whitehouse (Sienna Miller) must face headlines: her husband (Ruppert Friend), one of the Prime Minister’s trusted men, is accused of rape by his lover (Naomi Scott), and the lawyer who What he wants to put behind bars is the stubborn Kate Woodcroft (Michelle Dockery). Melissa James Gibson adapts Sarah Vaughan’s novel vice with the help of David E. Kelley, an authority on television as the author of Ally McBeal, The Lawyer or Big little lies.
What is more refreshing than a thriller that can give you goosebumps? Well, one that, having fun with the common places of the genre, can make you laugh with a Kaley Cuoco in a state of grace. She is Cassie, a flight attendant who, after dating a handsome millionaire passenger on one of her flights, wakes up with her dead body in bed in a luxury hotel room.
The second season of The flight attendant did not live up to the first, but the outstanding level of the first must be recognized, with a solid story told from beginning to end. Perfectly combined thriller, comedy and a powerful background dramatic conflict: the protagonist’s alcoholism, much more than a source of jokes.
