Eclectic Pop

Oh, “Absentia.” This 10-episode thriller opens with two captivating back-to-back installments. The premise is as dramatic as they come. Emily Byrne (Stana Katic) is a wife, mother, and FBI agent, who disappeared chasing a serial killer. She has been missing for six years when she is found clinging to life in a tank filled with water. Her husband, a fellow FBI agent, is the one who finds her.

When it comes to movies and their plots, it is next to impossible to invent anything viewers have never seen before. You can improve upon it though, and that is what director Christopher Landon deftly accomplishes with "Happy Death Day." As strange of a combination as it sounds, the movie is “Groundhog Day” and "Halloween" meets “A Christmas Carol,” and it works.

For a film that’s title suggests it is about Tonya Harding, “I, Tonya” doesn’t really feel like a movie about Tonya Harding. Yes, even as Harding (Margot Robbie) frequently narrates the film and turns to the camera to break the fourth wall, it still feels like she is chasing the spotlight of her own story. That’s because the scene-stealing characters that surround her manage to take the light right off of her. To be fair, if there is one thing Harding's story is filled to the brim with it is colorful characters.