PopaHALLics #84 "Revenge, Lies, & Tammy Faye's Eyes"
Being wronged and doing wrong. We look at several movies ("Do Revenge," The Eyes of Tammy Faye") and a TV series ("Tell Me Lies") that do wrong right. We also talk books: The "Game of Thrones" mastermind does vampires on the Mississippi, and the Inspector Jury cozy mysteries investigate murders in quaint English villages.
Streaming
- "Do Revenge," Netflix. This dark, stylish teen comedy mashes "Clueless" and Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train." Two teenagers (Camilla Mendes and Maya Hawke) at an elite Miami high school plot to bring down each other's enemies.
- "Tell Me Lies," Hulu. Based on the novel of the same name, this series "follows a tumultuous but intoxicating relationship" between a young woman (Grace Van Patten) and a man (Jack White, the actor, not the musician) good at being charming.
- "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," Hulu. Jessica Chastain, in over-the-top makeup, plays televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in this sympathetic biopic.
Books:
- "Fevre Dream," by George R.R. Martin. The "Game of Thrones" creator mixes horror and history in a vampire novel set on a sidewheeler on the Mississippi River in 1857.
- Inspector Jury Mysteries by Martha Grimes. This British mystery series features an unlucky-in-love Scotland Yard inspector and his acerbic upper-crust friend investigating killings.
- "The Witch's Daughter," by Paula Brackston. A young woman must confront the evil that has haunted her for centuries.
