"The Hunger Games" stoked a hunger for young-adult fiction that has birthed plenty of wannabes, few of which have felt more generic and derivative than "The Darkest Minds." Kicking off a planned trilogy, the film is earnest and features a promising star in Amandla Stenberg, but lands too close to Disney Channel territory to foster much anticipation for subsequent chapters.
Rihanna is putting in work, work, work, work, work as the first black woman on the cover of British Vogue's coveted September issue in its 102 year history.
What to do when a limited series succeeds is, in TV circles, a high-class problem, one that USA's "The Sinner" tackles reasonably well. Having exhausted Jessica Biel's story, the show moves on to a new case -- connected only by Bill Pullman's gnarled detective -- that once again begins with a murder, backing up from the "who" and "how" of it to slowly pull back the curtain on "why."
