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So AMC's NOS4A2 has come to an end ... with the somewhat surprising news that there will be a second season. Apparently the ratings were pretty good, but it seems most people were hate-watching it. Because, truth be told, it ...
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July is ending, August is beginning, and the new Fall season is approaching so there isn't a lot of new programming coming our way as viewers grab whatever the rest of the summer can give them. If it weren't for ...
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It is easy to spot a Quentin Tarantino movie. His traits for such movies as Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, and Reservoir Dogs include a heavy dose of dialogue and lingering shots to capture the tone of the film. I’ve always ...
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Back to the drama this week, folks, but thankfully it wasn't the complete tearjerker I expected from the previews. If you remember Season 1's AIDS Cabaret that Pray Tell and Bianca put together for the patients at the hospital where ...
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It's interesting how the episode titles of NOS4A2 reference the smallest scene in the episode. Last week's 'Scissors for the Drifter' referred to the brief final few moments, and this week's 'Panassus' is not a reference to a natural structure ...
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It was very slim pickings for the last full week of July through the decades with just two new series premiering on cable networks. And while one of the shows ran for six seasons, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone ...
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A lot of people were shaken to the core by the death of Candy Abundance and even this week I wasn't sure I was mentally ready to face another episode as the ball room community dealt with the loss of ...
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NOS4A2 finally got interesting again this week ... for the last five minutes of the episode. The rest was another slog through Vic's personal issues with her parents, Maggie refusing to help anymore, and Charlie withering away.Has anyone read the ...
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Once again, only two decades that end in nine provided new programming for the third week of July, and aside from two of the eight shows, none of them had any real success. But those two shows are still on ...
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The threat of death has hung over the characters on Pose from the beginning. Not only are they dealing with almost daily losses of people in their communtiy to the exploding AIDS crisis of the late 1980s, but two of ...
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In 1994 my boyfriend and I went to the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York City to see the original production of Angels in America on Gay Pride Sunday, and it was life-altering. Being in that room with an audience ...
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AMC's NOS4A2 has been a real rollercoaster ride as far as the storytelling goes. It took its sweet time climbing a hill to give us one interesting episode and then went on another slow climb last week as basically nothing ...
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