Worth knowing about

A reality competition where celebrities play a murder mystery game in a Scottish castle. The lying is the point.

Two embassy secretaries in 1970s Moscow become CIA operatives after their husbands are killed. A spy thriller that runs on grief, humor, and two women who refuse to stay in the background.

A business consultant with a degree from one of Canada's top business schools helps struggling small businesses. His ideas are terrible. The show is perfect.

Angela Lansbury plays a mystery novelist who solves real murders in a small Maine town. Twelve seasons. 264 episodes. Still the template.

A scientist accidentally shrinks his wife to six inches tall. What sounds like a premise is actually a marriage story with a very specific point of view.

Bret Michaels dates 25 women in a house. Critics called it carnival sludge. They weren't wrong. It's also the most rewatchable dating show ever made.

Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey play two friends who meet as kids and stay in each other's lives for thirty years. A 1988 weeper that earns its tears.

A 2001 MTV movie that turned Bizet's opera into a Philadelphia crime story with Beyoncé in her first lead role. Weirder and more ambitious than it gets credit for.

Mariah Carey's 2001 star vehicle was buried on release and has spent twenty years being quietly reconsidered. A look at what the movie actually is.

A Playboy bunny gets kicked out of the mansion and becomes house mother to the worst sorority on campus. A 2008 comedy that's smarter and sweeter than it pretends to be.

A small polite bear buys a pop-up book and ends up in prison. One of the best-reviewed movies of the 21st century, and it earns every inch of that reputation.

A three-hour disaster movie that tricks you into watching a three-hour love story, or the other way around. James Cameron's 1997 epic, reconsidered.