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Rapid Insights-Genre DNA Analysis: Power Struggles and Why We Love to Hate

This week, in honor of Vault’s newly-rolled-out Genre DNA™ reporting capabilities, we’re taking another deep dive into an eclectic scripted subgenre that crosses both comedies and dramas: business Power Struggles. Shows within this category feature a variety of modern-set workplaces where employees, co-workers, and big-headed bosses clash and compete for the spoils of professional success. For our analysis, we […]

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Rapid Insights: Clipped’s Real-Life Story of NBA Scandal Is a Slam Dunk

Hot on the heels of HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty comes a buzzy new show focused on the other Los Angeles-based NBA basketball team. FX on Hulu’s newly-premiered limited series tells the true behind-the-scenes story of the LA Clippers, famed coach Doc Rivers (Laurence Fishburne), notoriously racist owner Donald Sterling (Ed O’Neill), and […]

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Rapid Insights: Eric’s Father-Son Drama and 1980s Setting Hook Viewers

Netflix recently released a buzzy new limited series that has been receiving widespread critical and popular acclaim. Set in 1980s New York, the dark mystery-thriller stars Benedict Cumberbatch as an abusive but distraught father desperate to find his missing nine-year-old son Edgar who disappeared on his way to school. Here’s what you need to know […]

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Rapid Insights: Baby Reindeer is a Surprise Netflix Smash

Last month, Netflix premiered an under-the-radar new limited series that has turned into an unexpected smash hit, ultimately landing among the service’s most-watched programs in 90 countries and finishing up its sixth week (and counting) on the Top 10 list in the US. Based on the real-life experiences of writer/star Richard Gadd, the show traces […]

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Rapid Insights: The Veil Engages with High Stakes and Global Thrills

Today, FX on Hulu is releasing the first two episodes of its compelling new spy thriller miniseries from the creator of Peaky Blinders. The show stars Elisabeth Moss as a slippery MI6 agent tasked with pursuing a suspected female terrorist and uncovering her secrets before it’s too late. Here’s what you need to know about The Veil: […]

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Rapid Insights: Bodkin and the Rise of a New Kind of Protagonist

This Thursday, Netflix is releasing a new dramedy series that will play up true crime and add to a recent trend in modern protagonists: podcasters investigating a murder. Joining the likes of Peacock’s Based on a True Story, Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, and Apple TV+’s Truth Be Told, this new show, which includes SNL’s Will Forte in its […]

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Rapid Insights: The Sympathizer Balances Spy Thriller and Sleek Satire

A critically-acclaimed new limited series has just premiered on Max that’s an adaptation of a popular Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A historical satire, the show follows a Viet Cong spy who becomes embedded in L.A.’s South Vietnamese refugee community at the end of the Vietnam War; the cast includes Oscar-winner Robert Downey Jr. playing multiple antagonists. […]

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Rapid Insights: Knuckles Cracks Open the Sonic the Hedgehog Cinematic Universe

Later this month, Paramount+ is releasing the first TV entry in its Sonic Cinematic Universe, an expanding live action/CGI-hybrid world based on SEGA’s famous video game series. The events of the show take place between films Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) and the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024), as Knuckles the Echidna (voiced by Idris Elba) trains a […]

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