The Consultant is based on the novel of the same name by Bentley Little. …
The series follows the employees of a mobile gaming company whose leadership is taken over by a sinister consultant, played by Christoph Waltz, the Academy Award winner for playing evil villains.
In fact, without Waltz this show wouldn’t work. He can really sell evil.
He calls himself Regus Patoff — a shortened form of Registered US Patent Office.
A therapist, Jimmy Laird, dealing with severe grief, begins to breach ethical barriers by telling his patients what he completely thinks, resulting in massive changes to his and their lives. …
Kristen Baldwin of Entertainment Weekly gave the series a B+ and described the series as “a funny, brainy grief-com about the power—and dangers—of radical honesty.” …
Writing for The Wall Street Journal, John Anderson stated, “The overall sense is a little like laughing at a funeral; the human impulses are familiar, a little perverse and somehow comforting.”
The Happy Hippie Foundation, founded by Miley Cyrus, “is a nonprofit organization that rallies young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBT youth, and other vulnerable populations.”
If you like Jack Reacher, you’ll like war veteran Peter Ash.
This is the 7th book in the series. The best, I’d say. But the bloodiest.
In this one, Ash is driving through northern Nebraska when he encounters a young pregnant woman alone on a gravel road, her car dead.
Peter offers her a lift, but what begins as an act of kindness soon turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse chase across the lonely highways with the woman’s vicious ex-cop husband hot on their trail.
The pregnant woman has seen something she was never meant to see . . . but protecting her might prove to be more than Peter can handle. …
I like Hardbinder. A 38-year-old detective inspector who’s still living with her Sikh parents — and still hasn’t told them she’s a lesbian.
BUT in this book, Hardbinder finally moves out because she has accepted a new position in the Big Smoke, London.
Her first case is a murder at a school reunion: Garfield Rice, an eminent MP.
Sadly, I came away disappointed. I want to know more about Hardbinder — but chapters are told from the point of view of different suspects. Some unreliable. I didn’t care about any of them.
Agatha Christie would have been disappointed in the resolution of the murder mysteries, as well. It really isn’t very brilliant.
I saw it described as a “finely crafted feel-bad treat“.
A dark comedy.
Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1923, lifelong friends Pádraic and Colm, who find themselves at an impasse when Colm unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship.
The most memorable performance is Barry Keoghan as Dominic who steals every scene.
Lincoln Rhyme is in North Carolina with his aide Thom and his companion and partner Amelia Sachs in order to receive experimental spine surgery, which may improve or further worsen his C4quadriplegic disability.
Whilst there they are approached by a local police sheriff and asked to help in a local case of kidnap and possible rape. They believe the kidnapper to be a local orphaned boy ‘Garret’, the ‘insect boy’.
I have to admire Deaver for being able to write a successful crime scene investigator who is confined to a chair. How does he come up with these plots?
It is well written, interesting, and well researched. Many plot twists as I’ve come to expect from Deaver.
I’ve not yet cancelled J.K. Rowling though her legacy won’t be Harry Potter — it will be her weird transphobic attacks on transgender people.
I say weird because for most of her life Rowling has advanced philanthropic causes. The charity Lumos. She worked for Amnesty International documenting human rights issues.
In fact, 95% of her works have been for the greater good.
Rick McCharles 