Dying to Love You (1993)

The makings of a great midseason filler episode that would connect in many different directions. This is a police drama filler with a guest director.

Life may find a way, but is it worth testing its fierceness and how far it will go?

It’s not often in America that you turn on the TV and see a show or a movie with a Muslim protagonist. And when they do, they're usually a negative stereotype. Ms. Marvel changes all of that.

The Roses is a wickedly sharp marital warfare comedy that transforms domestic dysfunction into high art. Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch deliver powerhouse performances as a couple whose fairy-tale romance implodes when his architectural career collapses just as her culinary empire takes off. What makes Jay Roach's remake so devastatingly effective is its refusal to pick sides—both spouses are equally sympathetic and monstrous, wielding Tony McNamara's razor-sharp dialogue like weapons forged from shared intimacies. It's a film that dares you to laugh at relationship wreckage while forcing you to confront the uncomfortable truth that the line between passionate love and mutual destruction is terrifyingly thin.

Lindsay Lohan makes a big film comeback in this amazing holiday comedy of the year.

A decade since it aired, Shameless (U.S.) has always stuck to its guns (and baseball bats) about character diversity.