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Review: Amazon's thrillers 'The Widow' and 'White Dragon' are potato-chip bingeable

When you strip away the distinguishing details, there are only so many stories to tell. But the similarities between two new Amazon Prime series - "The Widow," which premieres Friday, and "White Dragon" which began streaming in early February, are worth mentioning.

Each follows an English person (a white English person, for enhanced cultural contrast) into a foreign land on the trail of a spouse - dead in one, believed to be alive in another - and a multistory maze of secrets and lies and things turning out to be Not What They Seemed.

Each gets a lot of energy

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