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Two people take a wild ride through the Australian desert in “Upright,” a dark comedy on Sundance Now. The eight-episode series, which originally aired on Australia’s Fox Showcase and the UK’s Sky Atlantic, was co-written and co-directed by star Tim Minchin. He plays Lucky Flynn, a depressed musician driving to visit his dying mother, his …
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Veteran actor Michael Dorman stars in the new Australian thriller “The Secrets She Keeps” on Sundance Now. The six-episode series finds Dorman (“For All Mankind,” “Patriot”) as Jack Shaughnessy, an ambitious TV sports reporter who’s married to Megan (Jessica De Gauw), a mommy blogger pregnant with the couple’s third child — a source of friction …
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The psychological melodrama “Penance” is, by turns, creepy, silly, predictable and overwrought — and would fit snugly into Lifetime’s over-the-top “women-in-jeopardy” lineup. The three-part series, premiering Thursday on Sundance Now, first aired in March on England’s Channel 5 network. So it’s got a leg up on its American genre counterpart, since the Brits also seem …
Two people take a wild ride through the Australian desert in “Upright,” a dark comedy on Sundance Now. The eight-episode series, which originally aired on Australia’s Fox Showcase and the UK’s Sky Atlantic, was co-written and co-directed by star Tim Minchin. He plays Lucky Flynn, a depressed musician driving to visit his dying mother, his …
