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The season three premiere of Westworld is called 'Parce Domine', a reference to a Christian antiphon or ritual chant, but it means essentially 'Lord, spare your people.' Seemingly obtuse until Dolores breaks down the theme later. Man has created gods ...
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Things start to perk up as we move closer to Spring with several new shows premiering across four different decades. Many of them did not last longer than a season or two, but there was one critically acclaimed drama that ...
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It's Link; let's not waste a whole review-recap write-up sputtering and puttering around the issue the way the episode did. LINK is the father. But he doesn't get to know that before he confesses his 'I pick you, I choose ...
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Imagine that I am giving Riverdale a standing ovation for completely wrapping up the 'Jughead's death' storyline in a clever and satisfying way. I mean, as all over the place the storytelling has been this season, the producer obviously had ...
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The latest episode of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is called 'Zoey’s Extraordinary Failure', which very unusually allows Zoey to completely fail at one of her 'fix somebody’s problems' tasks. But this leads to Zoey in the final scene to acknowledge that ...
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Spring is in the air and the second week of March through the decades saw several new scripted and reality series making their debuts. Some ran for multiple seasons but seem almost forgotten today until the titles are mentioned. Do ...
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'The truth is? There's no good way to say goodbye', quothe Meredith on the voice-over outro of this 16th episode of the 16th season of Grey's Anatomy. And while that may be true? There are also about 100 BETTER ways ...
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Generally, I've been more pleased with this season's Riverdale than almost anything from last season, but the storytelling has still be a bit all over the place, throwing things at the wall to see what would stick. Like the mystery ...
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Episode 103: Zoey's Extraordinary Boss That latest episode of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is circled around Zoey’s often harsh boss Joan (Lauren Graham). Immediately the episode plays up by far the most expensive and recognizable song as '(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction' ...
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The first full week of March brings out a lot of new series, but few of them were very memorable. There was the notorious 1980 variety show, a reality show better known now for its catch phrase, and one well-loved ...
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Boy, I miss two weeks of episodes while sick and Dynasty completely loses its focus. What had been a pretty tight season up to this point is starting to fall apart ... making my argument that hour-long dramatic series really ...
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Seriously? SERIOUSLY. Somehow we back-pedaled so hard we started moving forward again. Carina DeLuca, who - you know - is on staff permanently but never actually there until there's a paternity debacle, a brain tumor to diagnose, or psycho-trauma with ...
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