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So this is an interesting one, isn’t it? The latest episode of Dickinson is called 'The Daisy follows soft the Sun', which is interpreted as a love poem to Samuel Bowles, the manipulative newspaperman played by Finn Jones. There it ...
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The latest episode of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is called 'Zoey's Extraordinary Distraction', and I think it’s using the word ‘distraction’ oddly. It seems that it’s used to identify that Zoey is struggling to find alone time with Max to 'do ...
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We're still in the middle of January, and while there were several films released this month throughout the last 100 years, not many of them are memorable ... or are memorable for all the wrong reasons. There are two groundbreaking ...
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EPISODE 3We are three episodes into CBS All Access’ The Stand and I’m starting to notice a trend for each episode. The series likes to introduce as many characters as they can into each episode and hope it works out ...
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With the holidays behind us and people settling in for a long, cold winter (in most places), the broadcast and cable networks begin to release some real heavy hitters this week throughout the decades. 1971 saw the launch of two ...
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The first three episodes of season two of Dickinson were all released at once, so this review will combine a discussion of Episodes 2 and 3. The first is called ‘Fame is a Fickle Food’, which is an evocative Dickinson ...
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The first episode of Dickinson Season Two is called 'Before I Got My Eye Put Out', which is one of Emily’s poems that is incorporated in multiple ways in the episode. Like most of her poetry, it has an ambiguous ...
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Star Trek: Discovery wraps up its third season which appears to be another complete story arc with a beginning, middle and end. Each season has been pretty much self-contained which is pretty cool. There are no cliffhangers at the end ...
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I had an interesting reaction to the first season of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, which had a string of very strong episodes and then a bunch of very okay ones. There were some issues here and there with a few of ...
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January is typically a dead zone for new movie releases, with only one or two premieres each week. It's usually referred to as the dumping ground for movies even the studios know are dogs and this appears to be the ...
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Happy New Year! As we move into decades that end in the number 1, we see many new series making their premieres during the first week of the new years. And while a few were less than successful, many of ...
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There are always more of those director/writer/actor indie movies that show up, and often they can be quite self-involved and annoying. When it’s just director/writer without acting in it, that’s often more likely to be more interesting -- but it’s ...
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