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'56 Days' Web-Series Review: Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia are no-holds barred in a watchable whodunit
The series adapts a bestselling novel into an eight-hour thriller exploring a complex relationship and a murder with Boston detectives investigating the case.
- On February 18, 2026, Prime Video premiered 56 Days, an eight-episode murder-mystery adapting Catherine Ryan Howard's novel starring Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia.
- After meeting at a supermarket, Oliver Kennedy and Ciara Wyse quickly move in, while Oliver runs from a dark past that may include a suspicious death.
- As an erotic thriller, 56 Days unfolds across eight episodes , prioritizing titillation over procedural depth to pace twists and sustain interest.
- Reviewers judged the series as lacking chemistry, and a critic awarded it 3 stars, amid a broader wave of erotic-thriller projects, suggesting a cultural shift.
- The first shot opens with a grotesque corpse scene described by Boston PD detectives Karl and Lee as a 'soup' of half-melted flesh, while director Aletha Jones and executive producer James Wan lead creators Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher.
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Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia's 56 Days is 2026's steamiest new show yet
They say sex sells, and yet Hollywood has become increasingly chaste of late. Indeed, a 2023 study noted a 40 per cent decrease in big screen copulation since the turn of the century, perhaps a response to the fact nearly half of Gen-Z viewers apparently believe both TV and film have become too sexualised.But hot on the heels of ice hockey phenomenon Heated Rivalry, Prime Video original 56 Days is yet more proof the entertainment world might be …
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Karla Souza and Dorian Crossmond Missick also star in the drama based on Catherine Ryan Howard's bestseller about an affair that results in the discovery of a corpse decomposing in a tub.
'56 Days' Web-Series Review: Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia are no-holds barred in a watchable whodunit
We meet two quidnuncs at a store and the frothy conversations begin before the relationship turns raunchy and carnal. Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia are ordinary people about to fall in love when we first get to know them
Two newly in love move together, eight weeks later one of them lies dead in the tub. Who it is, is not recognizable. The series "56 Days" deciphers a cruel riddle. How it ends will not please everyone.
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