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Only three decades this week saw any new series premiere, with 2003 having one of the most well-known, a teen drama in the mold of Beverly Hills 90210 set in a different part of California with a cast who went ...
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After last week's excellent Riverdale episode that gave Ethel Muggs the spotlight, this week we're back to a multi-story episode written by Ryan Terrebonne that has turned Riverdale into a town of teenagers with raging hormones. The script left me ...
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A huge collection of films made their debuts this week (or this month where no release date is known) with many a novel and stage adaptation among them. 1923 does have one notable novel adaptation that saw several remakes, while ...
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A handful of new series made their debuts this week across the decades, and several of them went on to very long runs, sometimes across multiple platforms. Two long-running series were late night shows, two of them had exclamation points ...
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The hilarious comedy The Play That Goes Wrong makes its triumphant return to Washington DC's Kennedy Center (in the Eisenhower Theatre) after a sold out engagement in December 2018, including cast members from the Broadway, National Tour and Chicago productions, ...
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I’ve heard the complaint that Christopher Nolan can be too cold or technical, without any real emotionality or heart -- and that his movies are far too confusing. I’d say that the only real fair example of that is Tenet, ...
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The Barbie doll has become an iconic toy and collectible since its introduction in 1959, a different kind of doll than what young girls usually played with until that time -- baby dolls. But Barbie burst onto the scene and ...
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Riverdale has long been known to cram as many different storylines into an episode as it could, usually giving the four main characters their own stories, or pairing at least two of them up for one plotline, but in general ...
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We are right in the dead of Summer, but this week's new movie releases are mostly forgotten, with the bulk of the big titles coming in the later part of the century. Several of 1922's films are lost, while 1933 ...
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Several news series premired this week, mostly in the last two decades. But 1973 did have two game shows, one featuring a Canadian host making his US TV debut. 2003 had three series across the spectrum of animation, reality and ...
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In the world of movies, a particular genre that always tries to hit hard is the 'rescue the problem child' one, because it usually ends not happily, but in a bittersweet way at least. The very nature of it lends ...
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Another week with a large number of releases, a few award-worthy, a few notorious, with some hits and misses along the way. 1923 has at least one film that still exists. 1933 had one film that pushed the boundaries of ...
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