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BandSAboutMovies4 May 2024
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Quinn Walker (Susan Ateh) has just returned to detective work after the death of her police officer husband, a man who everyone loved and who she knew as an abuser. She's kept that a secret from everyone but most essentially from her son Liam, who idolized his dad. She's become even more of the mean mom that he forced her to be, keeping her son from his interest in detective work and using true crime websites to help others solve crimes.

On the first day back on the job, she nearly shoots a suspect who ends up being an actor in the middle of a scene. It gets her noticed and while some of the press is bad, many see her as a hero for the way she tried to save someone, even if it was on a movie set.

She's also just been assigned a new partner, Carter (Jay Rincon), a London detective who has come to America to - as we learn later - find the murderer of his father. They don't get along and she doesn't trust him, but her son sees him as someone worth knowing.

In the middle of all this drama, there are also murders.

Mia Bailey is the hottest actress in Hollywood and she's about to star in a movie based on her friend Anna's (Roisin Browne) script, Blind Items. At the same time, there's a blind items website that reveals who will die next, from Mia in the place where her career started to her business manager Jason Cohen (Luis Donegan-Brown) and almost everyone connected to Mia and Anna, who came to the city of dreams together, living with a circle of friends, all of whom are either dying or suspects, like Ozzie, a former military veteran and now spiritual healer.

As Quinn tries to deal with her grief, her new partner and being a mother, she starts to depend on her son, who is able to find clues that she never saw and use the internet way better than she ever would be able to. However, this puts him in danger.

I really liked Quinn's boss, Captain Ellis (Doña Croll), who has a really great scene with Quinn where she explains that she knew that she always had a hard time being the wife of someone that everyone saw as a much better person than he really was.

The strange thing is deciding to have a London detective in the U. S. When does this ever happen? It's kind of strange, but not enough to put me off the movie.

Director and co-writer - with Daniel Mahler Landman - Nanea Miyata also directed A Party To Die For, another Tubi Original. I liked how whoever is behind the murders goes through some twists and turns, using Quinn's recent incident in the news against her. And by the end, there's a moment that makes who the killer is up in the air, as the messages haven't stopped on the site.
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uncaring mannor Of police officers.
craaazymary14 May 2024
The way the world is today I'm surprised that this movie did not want to put a positive note on police work. To have a captain and a partner fight against an investigation that, whether or not it was a murder, should've been further investigated just to assure that it was not. Rather than just assuming that it was not and leaving someone out there brutalizing and killing women. That shows poor taste. The very least The captain, a woman, should have definitely supported the female police officer regarding making sure no other women can get hurt. But to side with the guy who flippantly is deciding sear isn't necessary, it's poor taste. Women have it hard enough out there in the world today, brutality is far to prevalent. To make light of it it's right at the core of the problem. Obviously nobody taking part in this movie has ever known a woman to be a victim? I would just hope that further we care just a little bit more about making sure we're not wrong instead of making sure we're not right .
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