Mystery Monday takes us back to the first of four movies released in the late 1930s starring Bonita Granville as teenage detective Nancy Drew. Based on The Password to Larkspur Lane, Nancy looks into the unexpected disappearance of Mary Eldredge (Helena Phillips Evans) shortly after she announced plans to donate $250,000 to the local school.
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Starting off with clever meet-cute of the awkward Owen (Spike Fearn) falling for Emily (Sadie Soverall) on the dance floor where he works as a sound technician, Finding Emily begins in earnest when Owen discovers he’s missing one-digit from her phone number. With only her name to go by, his search begins.
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Scooby Sunday takes us back to another mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. While working on a construction site, Mystery, Inc. investigates the appearances of Specter of Ebenezer Crabbe who has been scaring away workers and slowing the construction of a new sky scraper. The setting allows for the gang, mostly Scooby (Don Messick) and Shaggy (Casey Kasem), to be chased around the work zone high above the city streets while uncovering a bit of a convoluted plot involving the robberies of several nearby businesses.
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In what feels like a sort of throwback to the kinds of series USA Network used to make, the opening episode of Anna Pigeon introduces us to park ranger Anna (Tracy Spiridakos) who, following the death of her husband (Jordan Sledz) left her big city life behind for nature. Constantly moving around to different national parks, and about to leave her current posting, Anna looks into the murder of another ranger who others are all too willing to believe was killed by a mountain lion.
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“What you’ve done is taken God’s oldest killing machine and given it will and desire. What you’ve done is knocked us all the way to the bottom of the goddamn food chain.”
One of the many, many Jaws knockoffs, with a bit of Dr. Frankenstein mad scientist thrown in, 1999’s Deep Blue Sea was most notable for defying expectations and horror movie tropes in terms of expected deaths and survivors. It also provides some templates reused in Jurassic Park and its various sequels including an untimely storm and Thomas Jane as a sort of shark wrangler for a pack of killer creatures far smarter than their creators.
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