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Love Hurts
A realtor is pulled back into the life he left behind after his former partner in crime resurfaces with an ominous message. With his crime-lord brother also on his trail, he must confront his past and the history he never fully buried. Ke Huy Quan first started studying martial arts as a child, when he trained in Tae Kwon Do to appear in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. He continued the practice into adulthood, utilizing it on screen in Breathing Fire, and then parlaying it into a second career as an assistant fight coordinator and action choreographer on such movies as X-Men and The One. He returned to working in front of the camera in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
 

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Paradise (Hulu)
A security service team is tasked with protecting a past president. A political drama, murder mystery, and sci-fi thriller all rolled into one. When the President is found murdered in his residence, his Secret Service detail gets right on it, and one of his top agents quickly becomes Suspect Number One. A show like this is only as good as its premise, and the premise here is terrific; and it can only maintain suspense as long as the Big Questions go unanswered, and right from the start the head scratchers.

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The Night Agent (Netflix)
Low-level FBI agent Peter Sutherland works in the basement of the White House manning a phone that never rings - until the night it does, propelling him into a conspiracy that leads all the way to the Oval Office. According to Netflix's What We Watched Engagement Report, released in December 2023, this series was Netflix's most watched title between January and June, 2023. Netflix reported more than 812,000,000 total watch hours worldwide, more than 92,000 years worth of watch time.
 

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