While I'd usually queue up the holiday movies as the season approaches, for some reason, I'm not quite ready this year. I miss long summer days, even if they do come with insects and heat. Like me, if you are longing for beachy days, you may want to skip the queue of winter-heavy movies and opt for a summer-based thriller instead.

I happened upon "The Mean Season" on Tubi while looking for a thriller, and it completely swept me away. Starring Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, and Richard Jordan, the film is set in a stormy, beautiful Miami during its "mean season" of storms and hurricanes.

It let me put off the cold weather a little longer while keeping me captivated by an intricate serial-killer plot — the ultimate escape from the dark fall and winter days to come. And best of all, it's completely free to stream "The Mean Season" since it's on Tubi.

"The Mean Season" kicks off with a murder. Alongside shots of a newspaper's printing press, a woman is seen walking out to the beach. At first, she seems to smile, only for someone to come up behind her, pointing a gun. The camera cuts away to a looming storm as a gunshot rings out.

The next scene introduces us to the weary Malcolm Anderson (Kurt Russell), who is ready to leave behind his journalism career in Miami for a slower life with his girlfriend, Christine Connelly (Mariel Hemingway), in Colorado. But before he leaves, his editor, Bill Nolan (Richard Masur), approaches him with one final assignment: a body that's been found.

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