WHAT’S HOT ON HOTCHKA RIGHT NOW

The first episode of Helter Skelter: An American Myth presented us with an adult Charles Manson, pre-murders, a wannabe recording star and guru of a hippie group who lived on an old Hollywood movie ranch, then managed to hook up ...
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It's our 100th 'episode' of TV By The Decade, but there isn't a whole lot to celebrate with this week's TV premieres with just three shows making their debuts in three different decades, none of them running longer than two ...
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Here we are at the penultimate episode of the season (there were supposed to be ten episode but the finale was not completed before the COVID shutdown), and daddy issues are plaguing almost all of our heroes in one way ...
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Dave Franco makes his directorial debut with the thriller The Rental, and Hotchka's critics Jeremy Fogelman and Justin Moore have two different opinions about the movie now available to stream on Apple TV.   Jeremy Fogelman How many of these movies have ...
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Forgive me for sounding like a broken record recently, but I have to say again how vastly improved NOS4A2 has been this season since that Manx-centric episode. I thoroughly impressed by how a show that I basically 'hate watched' over ...
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Most people of a certain age remember the horrific murders of Sharon Tate and her friends on the night of August 9, 1969. In addition to Tate and her unborn baby (she was 8 months pregnant), the victims included hair ...
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The last week of July has a surprising number of new series premieres across all but two decades, from animation to reality to scripted to news programs. A few ran for multiple seasons, most didn't make it past the first ...
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There’s something satisfying about discovering hypocrisy, whether it’s among the highly conservative anti-gay crusaders turning out to be closeted themselves, or the far more common type encountered in pop culture. It’s a bit of a trope, when the person being ...
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Well, they can't all be gems. There was one of the fifteen first season episodes that wasn't my favorite, and out of this season's seven episodes thus far this week's 'Dumb Patrol' is that one episode. Not that it was ...
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I have to say the last few episodes of NOS4A2 have been consistently entertaining, a feat I never thought this series would manage to do, and this week's episode is no exception. Actually, this week's episode 'Bruce Wayne McQueen' is ...
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It's mid-July and there are more new series premiering this week than you might expect, including two on NBC. Unfortunately, even with some multiple season runs for a few of the shows, most are barely remembered today outside of the ...
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This week's Doom Patrol went into the realm of the absurd ... well, that's nothing new ... with the appearance of the Pioneers of the Uncharted, a team of ageless astronauts Niles sent into space in 1955. Putting that silliness ...
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