Jean Smart
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Melanie is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating a wealthy socialite. One day he pops the big question and asks Melanie to marry him. Despite her polished uptown image, Melanie grew up poor in the deep South, and as a teenager she married her high school sweetheart. Now Melanie returns to her hometown to tell her parents the news and convince Jake to grant her a divorce. However, the more time she spends with her old flame, the more...
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Multiple Emmy Award winner Jean Smart stars as a legendary Las Vegas comedian who is forced to hire an ambitious young writer. These two talented comedic voices from different generations form an unlikely bond in this new comedy from "Broad City" alums Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky and Emmy Award winning executive producer Michael Schur.
3) Hope springs
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Kay and Arnold are a middle-aged couple who have been married for 30 years and now are sleeping in separate rooms and barely interact in any meaningful loving way. Finally, Kay has had enough and finds a book by Dr. Feld which inspires her to sign them up for the doctor's intense week-long marriage counseling session. What follows is an insightful experience as Dr. Feld manages to help the couple understand how they have emotionally drifted apart...
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Young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher trades high society life for a classroom on the prairie, determined to prove she is brave enough to live on her own. She learns through her aunt's secret diary that she had been a pioneer woman herself, and uses it as a guide to embark on her own adventures.
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Focuses on sisters Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker, who, despite being opposites, run a business together. Julia is an elegant, outspoken liberal intellectual, while Suzanne is a rich, flashy, often self-centered former beauty queen. Together they have launched Sugarbaker Designs.
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Season three finds Julia running for the office of supervisor against a sexist pig, Suzanne brandishing a semiautomatic weapon to protect a pig of her own, Mary-Jo deciding that a breast implant might be a good idea, Charlene deciding to drag them all down to Graceland for an Elvis nostalgia weekend, and Anthony getting nominated for homecoming queen.
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This season Sugarbaker's is hired to decorate the Governor's mansion for its annual ball and Julia gets her head stuck in the banister; Suzanne attends her high school reunion, where people shun her because she has gained weight since high school; Charlene goes into labor; Anthony and Mary Jo cast votes in a call-in poll unaware that each call costs money; and much more. Includes 27 episodes.
11) Miss Meadows
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Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.
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Designing Women is about female empowerment, politics, human rights, ethics, and, oh yeah, big laughs! Created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Designing Women ran on CBS from 1986-1993 for seven hysterical seasons becoming a premier landmark sitcom in television history. Includes all 24 episodes of Season Five.
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"When Calls the Heart" tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, who receives her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley, a small coalmining town where life is simple, but often fraught with challenges. Lori Loughlin plays Abigail Stanton, a wife and mother whose husband, the foreman of the mine, along with a dozen other miners, has just been killed in an explosion. The...
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Nothing extraordinary ever happens to Carol Peters, so when she starts getting snarky backtalk from her TV, phone, and microwave, she thinks she's being punked. Or losing her mind. The world's first superintelligence has chosen to study and observe Carol's attempt to romantically reconcile with her former boyfriend to better understand the human condition. Soon, the all-powerful entity takes over her life ... with ominous plans to possibly take over...
15) 24: Season 5
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Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer returns to L.A. when it becomes clear that the only four people who know he is still alive are being targeted for assassination. The killings coincide with the signing of an anti-terrorism treaty with Russia, leading Jack to suspect a line between the assassinations, the treaty, and a group of Russian terrorists. But as the terror unfolds, Jack learns the day's events were set in motion by an...
17) Warren
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After giving up on making it in the Chicago improv scene, a young comedian fatefully reconnects with the former love of his life one fall night while working at a coffee shop in his hometown. Afraid of growing old and alone like his divorced father, Warren must choose between winning her back or finding the courage to go after his dreams a second time.
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The daughter of research scientists, Kim does her best to lead a normal teenaged life - going to class, attending proms, and the like. Unfortunately, the world is full of pesky master criminals and super nasty villains, compelling the high-flying, martial arts savvy Kim to kick butt on occasion in the interests of humanity and the American way. Ron is Kim's nerdish sidekick.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “When it comes to creating character, evoking place, and writing crackling and convincing dialogue, Sara Paretsky has no peer—and Hard Time proves it once again.”—Chicago Tribune
“Terrific . . . expertly plotted . . . This book [is] her best.”—The New York Times Book Review
In an instant, the lives of two women...
“Terrific . . . expertly plotted . . . This book [is] her best.”—The New York Times Book Review
In an instant, the lives of two women...