40/49
Adapted from the book Stinger (1988) by Robert McCammon
Synopsis
Trapped on a farm in rural Georgia, a group of neighbors must put aside their differences and band together to face a mysterious and deadly threat. Featured on Korman Productions’ Deep Dive TV podcast: Teacup on Peacock Deep Dive: S1 E1/2 "Think About the Bubbles"/"My Little Lighthouse" (2024).
I watch Yvonne Strahovski
There’s something about her, a magnetism, a quiet strength, that makes you think she should be starring in movies, not stuck in TV roles. Yet she dominates every scene as Mrs.
Then there’s "Teacup" It wants to be creepy, unsettling, even grotesque
Waterford in "The Handmaid’s Tale", the kind of role that gets under your skin and stays there. Instead, it drags on, inducing yawns where there should be tension, eye rolls where there should be chills.
Like the moment they buy the boy’s story, then start throwing around the title “Assassin” like it’s a game
Sure, the show is trying to cram itself in with the heavyweights of dystopian drama, but it misses the mark – plot, dialogue, even characters – just before it hits the right notes.