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Pennyworth :: Silver Birch
Let's Talk About 'Silver Birch': Thomas Wayne is a prisoner in the Tower of London after stabbing Martha.
Martha is in surgery, but is expected to survive.
Patrick Wayne offers Alfie a million pounds to break his son out of prison and ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #116 :: October 12•18
This week's movie anniversaries come in a mixed bag of popular films, flops, screen debuts, and award winners or nominees. 1922 saw the most expensive film ever produced in Austria, a Biblical epic by a director who would go on ...
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TV by the Decade :: October 9•15
The stragglers of the new Fall Season are making their debuts, and several series that went on to become popular with long runs, some even for years after their ends, are celebrating their anniversaries this week. 1952 saw the debut ...
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Amsterdam Review :: Amsterdam is more of the same from David O. Russell
Writer/director David O. Russell is not a good person.He has mistreated the cast and crew of just about every film he's ever made -- like when George Clooney had to step in on the set of Three Kings or Christian ...
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Grey’s Anatomy :: Everything Has Changed
Well, at least the -- whatever they are ... surgical new-residents? ... at least they're back in the tunnels. And so memorable are they that I can't even remember a single one of their names ... except Derek's nephew -- ...
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Star Trek: Lower Decks :: A Mathematically Perfect Redemption
The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is called 'A Mathematically Perfect Redemption' and goes in some pretty odd directions. We start very unusually with a 'Previously On...' that shows us the exocomp robot Peanut Hamper fleeing during the ...
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The Good Fight :: The End of Ginni
Let's Talk About 'The End of Ginni': Liz appears on a Chicago morning show and makes some pointedly honest comments about Clarence and Ginni Thomas that don't please a few people.
With Dr. Bettancourt still out of town Diane is taking ...
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Pennyworth :: Well To Do / Many Clouds / Comply or Die
Let's Talk About the Pennyworth Season 3 three-episode premiere: The series moves from Epix to HBO Max with a five year time jump following the Battle of London which ended Season 2.
Alfred is now the owner of the pub he ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #115 :: October 5•11
The first full week of October across the last century brings not just quantity -- with new movies premiering in each decade -- but quality as well, with several decades producing at least one film that has gone on to ...
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Rick and Morty :: Final DeSmithation
The latest episode of Rick and Morty is called 'Final DeSmithation' which is naturally a reference to the Final Destination movies, which are about people trying to escape their fate of horrible death (although I haven’t actually watched anything more ...
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House of the Dragon :: Driftmark
The latest episode of House of the Dragon is called 'Driftmark' which is where the entire episode takes place -- a bottle episode on a castle on an island. We start off in a fairly short time jump from the ...
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TV by the Decade :: October 2•8
The first full week of October across the decades is, for the most part, the final major 'premiere week' for the networks. We won't be seeing the same number of new shows making debuts now until at least 'mid-season' but ...
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