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DISNEY+ | Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

A kid sleuth who’s loose with the facts
FAMILY Timmy Failure (Winslow Fegley) considers himself one of Portland’s
most dogged detectives, but he has a habit of forgetting about cases almost as soon as
he takes them on. If the class hamster’s death is so suspicious, as Timmy immediately
suspects, who was the culprit? No solution ever arrives, from either Timmy or Q&A
his assistant, an imaginary polar bear. (Timmy’s go-to theory is that Russians were

somehow involved.) It’s grade-school Raymond Chandler. This delightful movie— E!’s
a whirring toy of whimsical humor—is a celebration of eccentricity, imagination and Lilliana
one boy’s right to ignore evidence staring him straight in the face. (Launches Feb. 7) Vazquez
The entertain­
ment reporter, 39,
cohosts the new
weekday morning
shows E! News
and Pop of
the Morning.
What’s your
favorite topic of
discussion on air?
I love to talk about
raunchy, bad reality
TV. Whether it’s
Vanderpump Rules
or 90 Day Fiancé,
I live for that stuff.

Timmy
(Winslow
Fegley) and NETFLIX | Horse Girl
his sidekick. DRAMA Alison Brie (GLOW ) is

remarkable as Sarah, a young
With
woman heading toward a com- Andy
plete psychotic break. It’s hard to Cohen.
say how the performance even
works—Sarah initially seems Are there any
like the flaky heroine of an indie great broadcast
journalists you
comedy—except that Brie’s look up to?
openhearted face registers Meredith Vieira.
every emotional fissure. It’s a I don’t know
sad movie and not especially anybody who can
move with such
hopeful. (Launches Feb. 7)
ease in the way
that she does.

You’ve
interviewed
APPLE TV Little America so many stars.
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DRAMA An anthology of emotional, funny and Which ones are ZAMBOUROS(5); INSETS, FROM LEFT: CAROLINE FIRTH; MIKKI ANSIN; ANN MARIE PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTO BANK/GETTY IMAGES; KATRINA MARCINOWSKI/NETFLIX; APPLE TV+; DISNEY+; (BOOKS) PETER CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: STEVEN FERDMAN/WIREIMAGE; ROB KIM/E! ENTERTAINMENT/NBCU
you still itching
inspiring tales based on real-life immigrants’ to talk to?
lives, this series has the richness of a perfect Cate Blanchett, to
collection of short stories. A Chinese-born me, is the epitome
of grace and style.
mom wins a free cruise, a Nigerian student
I would love to sit
dreams of being a cowboy, a gay Syrian man with her. And
finds refuge from persecution. This too is the Meryl Streep. Duh!
real America. (Streaming now) — E R I C
T O D I S C O

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