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Grey’s Anatomy :: Head Over High Heels
The one thing that Grey's Anatomy does better than put hot-button issues at the forefront of their episodes as of late? Recycle plot lines in a mangled fashion so that you almost don't recognize that they're being recycled. Here we go ...
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Riverdale :: How many Gargoyle Kings is too many?
As we barrel towards the season finale -- only four episodes left -- we're still no closer in figuring out who the Gargoyle King is. And that matter got a little more complicated this week for two reasons: a newly ...
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The Haunting of Sharon Tate exploits a Hollywood tragedy
The Haunting of Sharon Tate is based on one of Hollywood’s most famous murder cases in 1969. Sharon Tate was an American model and actress who was married to director Roman Polanski. After returning home from dinner with her friends, ...
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Doom Patrol goes deep Underground
From the beginning of Doom Patrol and the arrival of Crazy Jane, she's been one of the most enigmatic characters in the series (perhaps Rita is as equally enigmatic with very little of her background filled in for us) mainly ...
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TV by the Decade :: April 14•20
The week of April 14 through the decades yielded very little in memorable programming outside of a couple of reality TV series. Do you remember any of the shows that debuted this week?1959No new series premiered this week in ...
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Penguin Highway expertly hits the Japanese coming of age magical realism tale
I have long been a bit apprehensive of anime movies, although that’s really because I find most of the television shows exported to the US to be mostly uninteresting. Sure, I had an anime phase in college along with my ...
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There is more to learn about Moclans in this week’s The Orville
The second season of Fox’s hit show The Orville is quietly coming to an end with just two more episodes after this one. A character that I didn’t expect to have so much screen time and storylines dedicated to him ...
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Hellboy is just fine, what are you so angry about anyway?
I saw Hellboy back when it came out in 2004 and I quite liked it. Weird fantasy and monster stuff, decent character stuff, an okay romance and Ron Perlman was great in the lead role. The follow-up sequel I found ...
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Master Z: Ip Man Legacy hits surprising heights in an engaging martial arts tale
I feel like I have seen an awful lot of these 'Ip Man' movies by this point, but it’s actually been the first three and now this spin-off. Donnie Yen is a charismatic, superb martial arts star that I first ...
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The Twilight Zone hits the rewind button in this week’s episode
Last week CBS All Access aired the first two episodes of their rebooted Twilight Zone. I found the first two episodes to be impressive with Jordan Peele as an excellent host. Each of the last episodes cast a big name ...
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Star Trek: Discovery :: An emotional episode possibly hints at the future
Here we are, the next-to-last episode of the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, and it feels like they are aligning this season's Captain Pike storyline -- which he know ends with him being doused with massive amounts of radiations ...
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The Good Fight pulls no punches
Some familiar faces returned to The Good Fight this week. Kurt Fuller, who played Judge Peter Dunaway on seven episodes of The Good Wife was back on the bench this week (his second appearance on this series), and John Glover ...
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