In Ready or Not, Grace (Weaving) falls in love with Alex Le Domas (Mark O'Brien), a member of a wealthy gaming dynasty. After a picture-perfect wedding on the family estate, Alex informs Grace that there's just one more formality to be observed: At midnight, she has to draw a card from a mysterious box and play whatever game is named there. Grace, alas, draws Hide and Seek, the worst possible card.
On the small screen, however, look for Netflix's "Last Samurai Standing," which features similar elements weaved through a story inspired by the end of the samurai class era. The series, based on Shogo Imamura's manga series Ikusagami, continues the streamer's trend of live-action manga adaptations such as "One Piece," "Yu Yu Hakusho," and "Parasyte: The Grey." "Last Samurai Standing" is a new peak in the subgenre, standing out as one of the best action TV dramas of this year.
When Yellowjackets premiered on Showtime, viewers didn't really know what to make of it. Its dual-timeline survival thriller structure was already experimental enough, but on top of that was a strange, otherworldly plot that may or may not be supernatural. As a result, it became something that is becoming rarer and rarer in the streaming TV era: a word-of-mouth hit, a series that found success over time as its audience spread the word of its intriguing mystery box storyline.
Having washed up on the Orkney island of Hoy, Megan spends most of the film's present tense in bed recovering when she's not telling DCI MacKelly (Tam Dean Burn) what happened after she, her best friend Lexi (a sparky Sophie Skelton), captain Daniel (Akshay Khanna) and mystery man Mike (Nick Skaugen), a last-minute replacement for Lexi's boyfriend Adam (Mark Strepan), set off on their voyage.