A Simple Favor
Format: DVD
Who’s It For: Adults
A Simple Favor is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a while. Best friends, secrets, danger, a dead body and the ever-revolving question of who is duping whom. It is so full of intriguing twists and turns! It leaves you guessing all the way to the end! Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively and Henry Golding are terrific in this film.
Based on the book “A Simple Favour” by Darcey Bell
The Good Doctor Season One
Format: DVD 
Who’s it for: Adults & Teens
Shaun Murphy is a young surgeon with autism and Savant syndrome. He is recruited into the surgical unit of a prestigious hospital. The Good Doctor is so inspiring with a beautiful positive message. I love the subplots and story lines that the flashbacks reveal. The hardships and the brilliance of life are brought together effortlessly. This show will make you look at life in a different light. Spoiler alert….. it may make you cry, laugh and/or scream! Once you watch the first episode you’ll be hooked 🙂
Designated Survivor
Format: TV show on DVD
Who it’s for: Adults
Are you looking for something good to watch? Look no further. Who knew that in the United States we actually have a Designated Survivor? This occurs when the President, the Vice President and other officials in the line of succession for President are in the same location. In the event of a catastrophic event this will guarantee continuity of government all the higher officials are killed. The Designated Survivor is named President.
That is where this show begins…. You will quickly become engrossed in this political drama. Keifer Sutherland stars as the Designated Survivor. He is a very low level cabinet member named Tom Kirkman. After a major attack on the Capitol Tom is named President. There is a powerful resistance to a very inexperienced nobody in the role as President among those still alive. Tom Kirkman is determined to lead the county in his own mild way. If you watch the first episode be prepared to binge watch the rest of the episodes. Designated Survivor is powerful, thrilling, engaging, fast-paced and just overall a great story line!
Book: Big Little Lies by Moriarty, Liane
TV Series: Big Little Lies
TV Series Release Date: 19 February 2017
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspooon, Shailene Woodley, Alexander Skarsgard, Laura Dern, Jeffrey Nordling, Adam Scott, Zoe Kravitz and James Tupper
Rated: TV-MA
This is the perfect TV show for anyone who loves a brilliant, mind bending, edge of your seat mystery.
The show is a bit confusing at first. But once you settle in hang on to your seat! All is not what it seems in the perfect lives of three mothers of first graders. It all starts when a new single mom named Jane moves into a seaside California town. Madeline and Celeste take Jane under their wing and quickly form a close friendship. No one realizes that the arrival of Jane and her little boy will begin the downward spiral that leads to murder. Things are definitely not as they seem in the lives of these almighty powerful families. Watch as their lives unravel revealing scandal, ex-husbands and ex-wives and lies that we tell just to survive. Big Little Lies will keep you in suspense all the way to the end. I must warn you….. you will want to watch the entire season in one sitting. Find it on the Library catalog.