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HAPPY FACE

Paramount+ Original

Paramount+

We love a good inspired true crime series. In Paramount+'s Happy Face, we meet MUA Melissa Reed (Annaleigh Ashford) who works for an investigative talk show. We meet her family and we can see that she loves the life that she has built for herself.

Her father, who she doesn't have a relationship tries to connect with her and we know that he is in jail. Due to her lack of communication with him, he finally calls the show she is working on. Her father is Keith Jesperson (Dennis Quaid) aka, The Happy Face Killer. We realize that as a truck driver, he killed a number of his victims while he was on the road while maintaining what seemed to be a perfect family life.

He tells the show that is another victim that he has yet to disclose and he will only talk about it if he can talk with his daughter. In addition, they realize that the victim that he has disclosed has a man that is on death row that has been convicted of a crime that he didn't commit.

She realizes that she needs to connect with her father to free the man that has been wrongly confused as well as to reckon with her identity.

LOVE IS BLIND

Netflix Series

Netflix

There isn't a season or edition of Netflix's Love is Blind that we don't enjoy watching. Season 8 of the US edition is back with stories as we meet men and women who are looking for love.

They go into the pods and meet the other person on the otherside without the ability to see one another. They make their connections through the power of conversation. Only after getting engaged do they meet, spend time together honeymoon style, meet their fellow classmates, and move in together. Is love really blind and can they make a life together?

CROOK COUNTY

iHeartRadio + Tenderfoot TV

Spotify

Who doesn't love a True Crime podcast that has a twist? In Crook County, host Kyle Tekiela introduces us to his father Kenny "The Kid" Tekiela who lived a double life for over 25 years as a mafia hitman. No one in his family even knew that that is what he did! Throughout this podcast, he sits down and talks about her climbed the ranks of the legendary organized crime syndicate, The Chicago Outfit.

We hear his stories from being a doorman at the age of 17 at a brothel, an assassin in his 20's, spending many years cleaning up the messes from the mafia and wayward cops, to being a firefighter/paramedic for the Chicago fire department. When he finally, moved to the suburbs with his new wife and kids, he desperately worked to put that life behind him. Throughout this podcast, we learn how his actions have impacted him and his family to this day.

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1865

Wondery

Spotify

This Wondery podcast takes its listeners to the moment that President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. We are immediately introduced to a cast of characters that are left to grapple with a coup that threatened to shake up the bureaucratic system of power. Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton takes the task of ensuring that those who are meant to run the country stay in play while also ensuring that the line of succession remains intact with Vice President Andrew Johnson becoming President. While maintaining order, he also has to make various concessions as a means to maintain order which includes putting some of his beliefs on the shelf while navigating the interests of the country.

Bending to Southern interests, attempting to greenlight initiatives that involve reconstruction for newly freed slaves, as well as finding John Wilkes Booth, and additional mysteries that surround this actor turned conspirator envelop every part of Stanton's decision making and progress of the US. With all of these issues, 1865 shows how Stanton will betray his friends, his integrity and the very constitution that he is trying to protect under the veil of maintaining justice for the country.

CULPABLE

Tenderfoot TV + Black Mountain Media

Apple Podcast

For fans of To Live & Die in La and Up and Vanished comes a new True Crime story, Culpable. This podcast's focus is on those cases that have yet to be settled and what justice has not been served. We are taken to Mississippi to find out about what has been deemed a suicide by Christian Andreacchio on Feb. 26, 2014. He was found in his bathroom of his apartment with a single gunshot wound to the head. But there is evidence that shows that not only was this a homicide, but a premeditated murder. Host Dennis Cooper investigates this story and probes those who knew him and were with him in his last hours to find out what truly happened in order for his grieving family to finally put the issues revolving around his death to rest.

DESIGNATED SURVIVOR

Netflix Originals

With 2 seasons on ABC, Designated Survivor was saved by coming to Netflix with episodes being released weekly!

The story of lower-level cabinet member, Tom Kirkman who through succession is elevated to President of the United States continues as he continues to ensure that the country stays together. As designated survivor, he continues to navigates threats that are made to the country by those outside of it and even those he works with on his staff. In each episode fans watch as he maintains the balance of continuing to grow within his position while supplying humanity to address the issues that he and the country face each day.

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