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If you’re having trouble getting through all the podcasts you’ve downloaded there’s a back-up plan at hand: just wait until they become television shows and then watch them. Having quietly taken root over the past few years, the television adaptation of the podcast, whether factual or fictional, has achieved launch trajectory this year. From the Netflix true crime series
Sophie: A Murder in West Cork to Stan ’s medical thriller
Dr Death, what we listen to increasingly informs what we watch.
Joshua Jackson stars in TV series Dr Death, which is based on the podcast of the same name.
Now streaming on: Stand Clear of the Closing Doors is one of those films of which detractors say nothing happens and fans say everything happens. Its hero is a boy named Ricky (Jesus Valez) who lives with his family in the beachside neighborhood of Far Rockaway, Queens. He has a spectrum disorder. His 15-year-old sister (Azul Zorrilla) walks him home from school every day because he has no concept of danger. She s easily irritated by her brother, who s a handful even when he s in a quiet mood, and is prone to sudden, bizarre actions and gestures. Ricky s mother Mariana (Andrea Suarez Paz) dotes on him, while worrying that he ll never be able to live by himself and that his condition is just barely manageable.