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Willow Review: Fantasy Television That’s Here For a Good Time

Liz Shannon Miller — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 08:01:27 +0000

The Pitch: It’s been quite a time for super-serious sci-fi and fantasy epics, as anyone who’s attempted to keep up with House of the Dragon, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Sandman, and many, many other shows will tell you. But here comes Disney+’s Willow, with…

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Willow Review: Fantasy Television That’s Here For a Good Time
Liz Shannon Miller

Little America’s Second Season Offers a Much-Needed Dose of Optimism: Review

Mary Siroky — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 05:00:03 +0000

The Pitch: It’s often very difficult to feel optimistic about the general state of things in this country. For people who have grown up and lived through crisis after crisis, the many who were thrust into unsteady job markets and a Sisyphean uphill battle of debt and financial instability, the…

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Little America’s Second Season Offers a Much-Needed Dose of Optimism: Review
Mary Siroky

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Is Sweet, Slight, and (Kevin) Bacon-Flavored: Review

Liz Shannon Miller — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 17:00:31 +0000

The Pitch: Did you know that in Britain, there’s a long and proud tradition of ongoing series putting out special episodes for the holidays? More often than not, they’re even broadcast on Christmas Day, when it seems that entire nation turns into couch potatoes. In America, though, our more couch…

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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Is Sweet, Slight, and (Kevin) Bacon-Flavored: Review
Liz Shannon Miller

Andor Season 1 Told the Star Wars Story We Need for Times Like These

Liz Shannon Miller — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:01:11 +0000

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers through the Season 1 finale of Andor.] A lot of major plot points are packed into the Season 1 finale of Andor, but really, one of the year’s most powerful episodes of television came down to a speech from a dead woman. Fiona Shaw’s…

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Andor Season 1 Told the Star Wars Story We Need for Times Like These
Liz Shannon Miller

Welcome to Chippendales Is True Crime at Its Most Compelling and Unexpected: Review

Aurora Amidon — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:00:43 +0000

The Pitch: If you don’t live under a rock, chances are you’ve heard of Chippendales: the elegant, trailblazing first-ever all-male strip-tease troupe that has been bringing delightfully scandalous thrills to audiences since the 1970s. What you may not know, however, is that the burlesque’s history is brimming with conspiracy, racketeering,…

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Welcome to Chippendales Is True Crime at Its Most Compelling and Unexpected: Review
Aurora Amidon

Tim Burton Tries (And Fails) to Spice Up the Addams Family With His Wimpy Wednesday: Review

Clint Worthington — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:00:24 +0000

The Pitch: They may be creepy, kooky, and altogether ooky, but one question has lingered for decades on the minds of every Addams Family fan — Where did they go to high school? Lucky for us, Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (with a little help from Tim Burton and the…

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Tim Burton Tries (And Fails) to Spice Up the Addams Family With His Wimpy Wednesday: Review
Clint Worthington

Murky Truths and Murky Waters Collide in the Compelling 1899: Review

Jordan Blum — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:22:36 +0000

The Pitch: Several years ago, German creative/romantic partners Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar made their mark with Netflix’s sci-fi/thriller series Dark. Centered around “A missing child [who] sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations,” it was heavily…

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Murky Truths and Murky Waters Collide in the Compelling 1899: Review
Jordan Blum

Tulsa King Review: Sylvester Stallone Gets a Tailor-Made Star Vehicle From Taylor Sheridan

Liz Shannon Miller — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 08:00:08 +0000

The Pitch: Over the past several years, Taylor Sheridan has found himself a nice little niche making hours and hours of great dad TV, specifically the hit Paramount Network series Yellowstone and its accompanying spinoffs. But one underlying quirk of his output is also his ability to bring high-level stars…

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Tulsa King Review: Sylvester Stallone Gets a Tailor-Made Star Vehicle From Taylor Sheridan
Liz Shannon Miller

Fleishman Is In Trouble Review: Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Empathetic, Intense Novel Brought To Life

Jonah Krueger — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:00:18 +0000

The Pitch: It’s rough out there, and it seems to get rougher every day. Friendships decay, careers stall, and your dreams don’t come true – or they do, and then what? Maybe one day you wake up to find your now ex-wife has dropped off the kids at your new…

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Fleishman Is In Trouble Review: Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Empathetic, Intense Novel Brought To Life
Jonah Krueger

Emily Blunt Seeks Justice in the Transifixing Western Tragedy The English: Review

Clint Worthington — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:00:49 +0000

The Pitch: 1890, High Plains Kansas; a ramshackle hotel in the middle of nowhere. That’s where two souls, born in different worlds but bound by shared purpose, meet at the wrong end of a knife. One is Lady Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt), an English noblewoman on a mission to find the…

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Emily Blunt Seeks Justice in the Transifixing Western Tragedy The English: Review
Clint Worthington

The Crown Season 5 Review: Tragedies to Come Hang Heavily Over the Penultimate Installment

Liz Shannon Miller — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 07:01:12 +0000

The Pitch: In Season 5 of The Crown, one unifying theme stands out — being royalty is not a good time. The stately Netflix drama’s penultimate run of episodes has now clearly reached the beginning of the end, as Queen Elizabeth II (Imelda Staunton, succeeding Olivia Colman) faces her age,…

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The Crown Season 5 Review: Tragedies to Come Hang Heavily Over the Penultimate Installment
Liz Shannon Miller

I’m a Former Video Store Clerk and I Think Netflix’s Blockbuster Deserves to Go Bankrupt

Liz Shannon Miller — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 07:01:47 +0000

It’s not a good sign that Blockbuster, a workplace sitcom set inside a literal metaphor for late-stage capitalism, feels the need to call out the problem with its premise seven minutes into the pilot episode. “Isn’t it ironic that the small business taking a stand against the big corporation in…

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I’m a Former Video Store Clerk and I Think Netflix’s Blockbuster Deserves to Go Bankrupt
Liz Shannon Miller

This Year’s Treehouse of Horror Proves There’s Still Life Left in The Simpsons

Liz Shannon Miller — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:30:21 +0000

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for The Simpsons, Season 34 Episode 6, “Treehouse of Horror XXXIII.”] The popular attitude for decades now is that The Simpsons, Fox’s beloved, iconic, and seemingly undying animated tentpole, is past its prime — despite regular renewals year after year, as a critic there…

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This Year’s Treehouse of Horror Proves There’s Still Life Left in The Simpsons
Liz Shannon Miller

The White Lotus Season 2 Review: Mike White’s Found His Perfect Formula for Prestige TV

Liz Shannon Miller — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:00:38 +0000

The Pitch: Like all the best high-end travel and hospitality companies, The White Lotus has many locations, and so while the end of October might feel like an odd time to dive into back into summer vacation vibes, Mike White and HBO are here anyway to whisk us off to…

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The White Lotus Season 2 Review: Mike White’s Found His Perfect Formula for Prestige TV
Liz Shannon Miller

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Is a Horror Anthology Haunted By Creative Freedom: Review

Clint Worthington — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 07:01:49 +0000

The Pitch: A racist scavenger (Tim Blake Nelson) uncovers the ultimate score in the storage locker of a dead Nazi. A desperate grave robber (David Hewlett) gets more than he bargained for on his latest excursion. A medical examiner (F. Murray Abraham) autopsies a dead body from a mine explosion and…

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Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Is a Horror Anthology Haunted By Creative Freedom: Review
Clint Worthington