Manga creator Junji Ito uses Tomie to offer a unique take on femme fatales. It's common knowledge that Ito is a master of his craft. His beautifully haunting and detailed artwork is memorizing and uncanny to the eye. Ito's stories are unsettling, often taking the mundane and the comfortable and twisting them into untold horrors beyond comprehension. Such is the case in one of his most beloved classics, Tomie. This widely acclaimed series is a tragic and terrifying tale of a beautiful young woman and the men who obsess over her. It is easy to call Tomie herself somewhat of a femme fatale, but that would do this terrific tale a disservice.
One of CBS' newest sitcoms, Ghosts , features a cast full of spectral characters that each hail from a distinct time period and come with their own unique backstory and death. Though each of the eight ghosts has a wildly different perspective based on their different experiences throughout history, they nonetheless form a sort of family, which is one of the show's greatest charms. After all, being stuck with the same people for all of eternity allows for plenty of time to get to know each other. Ghosts , which is an adaptation of a BBC show of the same name, stars Utkarsh Ambudkar and Rose McIver (who played Liv Moore on five seasons of iZombie ) as Jay and Sam, a young couple who inherit a mansion in upstate New York. To their surprise, however, the house also comes with several ghostly inhabitants, who Sam is able to see after a near-death experience. These are Thorfinn (Devan Long), Sasappis (Román Zaragoza), Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky...
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