What’s worth your time in movies and TV this weekend?
By the law of franchises, and the built-in restrictions of the premise, it should be diminishing returns.
if also longer than it strictly needs to be.
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And when she starts to dig, things do not seem kosher down in Cartagena.
The trouble brings out all the best worst instincts in the hilarious ensemble.
Sadie (Harriet Dyer) tries to spin a press conference and spins out of control.
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Cyrus (comedy sniper Michael Benjamin Washington) eats his feelings.
Clueless scion Wesley (Jon Barinholtz) mourns his catamaran.
The show itself deserves more attention just for its quotable zingers.
Oakes Fegley and Michael Chiklis in ‘Accused’.Steve Wilkie/FOX
The banter is cheerful; the will-they-or-won’t-they is bit cutesy.
Credit to Fox, then, for trying something a little different withAccused.
and begins with the protagonist in custody, awaiting legal judgment for his or her crime.
‘When You Finish Saving The World’.Sundance Institute
Overall, though,Accusedoffers well-cast, engrossing mini-mysteries with twists viewers (mostly) won’t see coming.
