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Lady in the Lake Series-Premiere Recap: Thanksgiving in Baltimore
Natalie Portman is on the verge of the nervous breakdown in Apple TV+’s latest prestige literary adaptation.
She’s working days at the store and nights at a nightclub run by Shell Gordon (Wood Harris), a shady Baltimore fixture who’s intent on ruining a state senator’s political career after she pushed for school integration, yet whose motives seem to be more craven. • I know we may have hit our quota of slowed-down, well-known songs used to score pivotal dramatic moments, but how gorgeous was that mellowed rendition of “Where’d Our Love Go?” by Dora (Jennifer Mogbock) that helped set up the reveal of Tessie’s body at the end of this episode? Not only did we get to see him as the central beating heart of Ned Benson’s twisty time travel romcom The Greatest Hits and as an uptight storm chaser in the ’90s throwback blockbuster pseudo-sequel, Twisters,but here he is playing Maddie’s former high-school sweetheart and Tessie’s father!
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