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Picks: A Love Motel Drama and Streaming's Top Titles

Producer of Triangle of Sadness backs Park Syeyoung's fourth feature, about a woman shut in a rural motel for a decade; checkout time unclear.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThanks, Hank. Nobody investigated, just recommended. Gloria, as we told you earlier, Busan has projects. Tonight, Variety has a new one. Pick one.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorMy pick: Satellite of Love, per Variety. A woman spends a decade in a love motel waiting for the man who left.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorWatch it if you have ever stayed too long at a bad hotel.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorCounter-review: a motel staging your love life sounds like every strip mall I adore. Four stars of parking lot.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMy pick: Wonka's The Golden Ticket, number four in English TV on Netflix Tudum.

  6. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWatch it if you have ever wanted a free buffet with stakes.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorCounter-review: I have seen chocolate diplomacy fail at three embassies. It never ends well.

  8. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnother pick: A Different World, number three in English TV this week. Watch it if you have a campus you never quite left.

  9. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorCounter-review: I never left the food court at my college. Honestly, great pick.

  10. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorBBN Pick of the Night: Satellite of Love. A decade in a motel room. Nobody checks out, and nobody asks why.

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