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New York Times
a day ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘The Waterfront' Brings More Murder to Netflix
'The Waterfront,' a Netflix drama created by Kevin Williamson, is set in North Carolina in a small coastal town. The Buckleys are local royalty — not only in the sense that they're well known and powerful, but also in that they're tortured by their circumstances and deeply resent one another, even as they feel a duty to protect the family. The show is one of many to follow the 'Yellowstone' model, a family saga of violence and secrets, of huffy men and sly women, of distinctive names (Cane, Harlan, Diller, Hoyt). It is also about land that's been in this family for generations, gosh darn it — land that's our legacy if only the cruelties of debt and developers would abate. Our gruff patriarch is Harlan (Holt McCallany), a drunk and a womanizer with heart troubles and a shady past. His wife, Belle (Maria Bello), has her own valuable secrets and runs the family restaurant. Their son, Cane (Jake Weary), meddles with the fishing side of the business, and their daughter, Bree (Melissa Benoist), tenuously sober and trying to rebuild a relationship with her surly teenage son (Brady Hepner), wants more responsibility in the family's enterprises. But Belle isn't so sure she's ready. Cane has gotten himself into a spot of trouble with a drug ring, and suddenly his side hustle is a bigger and bigger problem. Only three of the eight episodes of 'The Waterfront' were made available for review, so I cannot speak to its stamina or big arcs. But these early chapters do a few things well. Whatever its flaws may be as it goes on, 'The Waterfront' does not start slow — it knows how to escalate. The bodies start piling up quickly and surprisingly, the double-crossing starts right away and the flirtatious glances turn to naughty trysts within an episode. Mysterious strangers do not remain so mysterious or strange for too long. The show often lacks texture, but it compensates with earnest momentum. The series also has dark fun with its setting, and its moody crimes include murder by fishing net, intimidation by dunking someone as shark bait and hiding a body in a swamp in the hopes that alligators will take care of the rest. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Daily Mail
My sister was found shot dead at home. Then I uncovered a haunting secret and confronted her husband...
A haunting tale of a brother's two-decade search for answers about his sister's mysterious death has uncovered a sinister trail of secrets. Eileen Thomson Zaccagnini was 20-years-old when she married her high school sweetheart, Vic Zaccagnini in 1967.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Yahoo
People Are Sharing The Bombshells Their Spouses Dropped On Them After Marriage, And It's Actually Terrifying
Reddit user u/BigButtSweetPink recently asked, "What did your wife/husband hide from you until after you were already married?" The thread quickly filled with hundreds of revelations and betrayals. Here are some of the wildest stories people shared: 1."He told me he was in the military. I had recently enlisted in the Army when I met him out one night. He told me he was a Marine veteran, and that's how we started talking. He told me stories about his time overseas and how he still keeps in touch with his military buddies. We eventually got married two years later, and when I applied for a VA loan under his name, I got a letter from the DOD that they had no record of him ever being in the military. He fabricated the whole thing. He would constantly ask for military discounts and tell elaborate war stories to people while wearing old military clothes. He started yelling at me when I confronted him about all the lies. We are now divorced." —u/Sweetorange23 2."He omitted that he was unemployed, in the middle of a bankruptcy case, and that he'd also lost his house to foreclosure. The worst part is that I never found out about any of this until years later when we were getting divorced. He hid so much from me, and I still have no clue how." —u/Spirited-Cat-8942 3."My best friend was engaged for a year (and was with the guy for five years). She found out less than a month before her wedding that he had planned to kill his ex-wife (mother of his child) after she had married someone else. He had gone up to the mountains where they were having their honeymoon and camped out with a scoped rifle just up the hill from their cabin. He spent an entire week watching them, planning on killing them and then himself if he got the chance. He couldn't bring himself to do it, so he left after they did." "His brother spouted off about it to my friend when he got drunk one night, so she asked her fiancé about it, and he did not deny it. He told her it was all true, and he still thinks about killing his ex-wife. She ended that relationship quickly and got a restraining order. Thankfully, he moved out of state shortly after, so she's probably safe." —u/BikesCoffeeAndMusic 4."My first husband hid several ex-wives (who thought they were current wives but divorced on paper for financial reasons), a 'current' wife, and multiple girlfriends, all while married to me. He also had a wife in his home country, several other kids in three countries, many bank accounts, and a mountain of debt. He lied about his jail time for fraud and theft, including doing a stint of several months for stealing from his employer (who fired him). He did this while married to me, and he told me he was back in his home country visiting his sick mother. He also had several social security numbers and identities he was using; the date of birth he gave me wasn't correct (his uncle accidentally spilled those beans), and the FBI was after him. He screwed over financial partners in Miami, and they were out for blood. His brother's kids were actually his because he'd had sex with his sister-in-law." "He'd killed someone back in his home country and gotten away with it because his family had bribed the authorities. Oh, and that he liked to meet random men for sex but was apparently only a 'receiver.' He was a pathological liar. No residual trust issues here, lol." —u/WitchOfLycanMoon 5."My first wife waited until invitations had gone out and all the vendors were paid for to break down and tell me her mom had been undermining our relationship and begging her not to marry me since before we got engaged. It was unfounded as I had no vices, was college-educated from a top university, was gainfully employed, and had a solid family who supported our relationship. It was about control. I found out her brother had moved to the other side of the state specifically to get away from her when he got married. We ended up getting married anyway, and it lasted one year before we divorced because her mother never stopped, and it eventually worked. I started defending our marriage to her face after a while, but we were working opposite schedules sometimes because she was a nurse, which didn't help." "When we separated, I lit her mother up like a bonfire and told her everything I had been holding in. I had to warn her dad it was better for him just to sit there and listen. The good news is my current wife of 20+ years has been a far better spouse, and her family is great." —u/Fun_Diver_3885 6."She had a threesome with her friend and one of our mutual friends. I found out accidentally and have never brought it up to her because she feels shame about it (according to the texts I stumbled on), and I don't want to bring up the past. But, I'm now uncomfortable around this friend, knowing that they have been with my wife like that and hid it." —u/kingn8link 7."That 90% of everything he told me about his past and life was a lie. He made up being in the Air Force, living in Texas, and having a multitude of illnesses, including being a diabetic. I was pregnant with my second child when a conversation with my mother-in-law revealed they never lived in Texas. I started asking her more questions and figured out I had been completely catfished by this man. He was 21 and I was 16 when we started dating. We met through a volunteer EMS service, and he was a volunteer firefighter, so I thought he was an upstanding guy. It took 25 years to get rid of his dumb, lying, stealing ass, but it's been a wondrous nine years of post-divorce freedom." —u/crazygranny 8."She hid that she had a child with someone else already, and they were still together, raising him as friends with benefits. I was so mind-boggled that I hadn't found out about this the whole year we were together before we got married." —u/White-Inn 9."They admitted to me that I was easy to manipulate the day we signed the papers." —u/Defiant_Action_4629 10."That he's super traditional and expects that I do everything in the household, and will actively utilize feigned incompetence to make it so. In a bizarre twist, he also feigns incompetence in 'traditionally masculine' activities, too. I'm not just the maid but also the mechanic, electrician, plumber, gardener, veterinarian, accountant, and construction worker. He will, however, make his own food because he has a very limited diet (pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, sandwiches, mac and cheese) and I eat a wider variety of foods that he doesn't like. He has a lot of other redeeming qualities, but it's uh, problematic." —u/Ok_Entrance4289 11."A month after our wedding, he told me he had never been in love with me and only wanted to start a family. He told me that you don't need love to make a marriage work, and we're not getting divorced because 'marriage is forever.' So, yeah, my divorce hearing is on Monday." —u/LavenderSaint 12."My wife didn't tell me how loaded her family was. Her folks lived in a nice but not opulent home, so I knew they were doing well, but I didn't know how well until a bit later. The good: We take some awesome vacations with them, her parents occasionally help us with big-ticket purchases, and my kids have college funds big enough to see them through medical school if they want to. The obnoxious: We are definitely seen as the 'poor ones' of the family. It doesn't matter that I'm self-made and worked my way from a blue-collar background to a $150,000/year job. They all still act like we're a charity case, my wife included." —u/Changeurblinkerfluid 13."My first husband and I weren't quite married yet, but we were close. We were engaged and had been together a couple of years when he confessed to me that I was his first sexual partner. When we met, he was nearly 30, and I had just turned 23. His unusual nervousness and awkwardness those first few months finally made sense. I felt oddly betrayed, especially since he'd told me he'd been with several women before me, and I had liked that he was supposedly older and more experienced than the guys I'd been dating." —u/MenstrualDeranged 14."I knew he had a DUI, but I didn't know he had five, triggering a felony DUI (and that he couldn't have a license for 10 years)." —u/Bingo_is_my_name_o 15."My ex was faking his entire personality. To this day, I don't know why. Maybe because he was from an evangelical family, and I was a leftist atheist, and he wanted to piss off his family." —u/St-Nobody 16."He told me right after our honeymoon that he was only pretending to like the things I liked. We had no real common interests." —u/aleighp11 17."My ex-wife hid the fact she stole my social security number and info and got school loans (in my name) for nursing school. As soon as she graduated, she blindsided me with divorce and left with my dog. I really miss my dog, but my ex can burn. The entire time we were married, I stupidly thought she was paying for school with her mom's money and grants." —u/Scriptur3 18."My husband did not mention that he had a son who was 'due any day' during the week we got married. We got married on a Tuesday, and his son was born that Friday. I found out on the Sunday after the baby was born." —u/lala7979 19."His first name. I didn't know I'd been calling him by his middle name until we were signing the marriage license." —u/DwightTheIgnorantSlt 20."Sleepwalking. I had no idea until she woke me up in a panic about tags for shoes. She had just started a second job in a shoe sports store. I spent a minute looking in the bed for tags before figuring out something was weird. Now, after 27 years, I know to direct her back to bed gently. She will always argue that she's not sleepwalking when she's clearly asleep and panicking over a problem that makes no sense." —u/grungysquash Multiple exposure of sleeping girl getting up 21."My wife hid her actual age. I discovered she was five years older than she'd told me when I saw her driver's license." —u/Huge-Water8988 "My late husband didn't tell me until the day after we were engaged that his parents were practicing nudists and that the cabin they always talked about going to was at a nudist reserve." —u/utlmnop Oh my god?! Did your partner lie about anything significant that you learned about after marrying them? Tell us in the comments or submit anonymously to this form. Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
Wall Street Journal
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
How a Blacklisted Magician Became a National Hero
SíO PAULO—Val Valentino spent years enduring boos and the occasional death threat as a magician bent on exposing the secrets behind the world's most popular tricks. Today the 68-year-old from California is treated like a hero.
The Sun
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
I have 18 siblings & some of them are also my cousins – I always lie on dates because my family tree is so embarrassing
A WOMAN has revealed that she always lies when she goes on dates, as she's so embarrassed by her family tree. Ellie Blythe claims that every time she mean a new potential beau, she tells them she simply has two brothers and a sister. 2 2 However, this is far from the truth. "I've actually got 18," she claimed in a viral TikTok video, posted under the username @ellieblythe. Shocking her viewers even further, she added: "Not only do I have 18, some of them are also my cousins." Ellie said that she does not want to have to explain this on dates, as it is too complicated. The TikToker gave no further information on how this is possible, and didn't give any evidence to back up her claims. However, the post quickly garnered the attention of TikTok users, racking up 200,000 views on the video sharing platform. TikTok users raced to the video's comments section to share their thoughts. A second person said: "have two cousins who are also my stepbrother and stepsister." A third person said: "I would happily go on a date with you just so I could hear this story." Top 5 Controversial Celebrity Family Moments And Ellie isn't the only person to have an unusual family tree. Celina, 37, revealed that she had three kids with her husband, before realising he was her cousin. The secret came out, after her husband Joseph, 44 did a DNA test to find out more about his heritage. "When I realised that we were cousins, I was a little sick to my stomach", Celina told Love Don't Judge. The world's biggest families The Vassilyev family This family currently holds the record for the most children a couple has parented, after the matriarch gave birth to 69 children, including 16 pairs of twins and seven sets of triplets. Mrs. Vassilyev has given birth to a total of 69 children, including 16 pairs of twins and 7 sets of triplets. 67 of the 69 children survived infancy. The Radfords Sue and Noel are parents to 22 children, and their hectic family life is documented in reality show 22 Kids and Counting. The pair have remained adamant that they won't be having any more kids, but the amount of grandchildren they have is ever expanding, with daughters Sophie and Millie both mums of three. The Duggars Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar have 19 children - 10 sons and nine daughters. All of their children's names begin with the letter J. They also had their own reality show in the United States, and became household names because of it. The Bates family Kelly also has 19 children, with her husband Gil Bates. Of 19 deliveries, 14 of them were natural. The couple also have 28 grandchildren, with four more on the way. The Dougherty Dozen Mum Alicia frequently shares videos and pictures of her family. She and husband Josh have four biological children together, as well as adopting or fostering the rest of their brood. The Rosario family Yalancia and husband Michael are parents of 11. They had their first daughter together earlier this year, and are also parents to Jamel, 15, Michael Jr, 11, Angelo, 10, Gimani, seven, Armani, six, Sincere, three and Khaza, two. Their fourth son, also named Armani, was stillborn. Joseph was in complete denial at first, but after looking closely at the data, realised the truth. The DNA test confirmed that the duo are third to fifth cousins, and the revelation left them questioning their relationship. "I thought we were supposed to get divorced, but then I started thinking that for out children we need to stay together", Celina said. Celina described the revelation as a "pivotal moment" as "you're not supposed to be with your cousin, but it happened that way". Joseph added that he meant it in his wedding vows when he said: "Till death to us part", so he decided not to leave his wife due to the discovery.
