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The latest episode of Rick and Morty is called 'Rick: A Morty Well Lived' which isn’t a specific pop culture parody but instead a sort of reference to the common aphorism of a 'life well lived' and specifically the video ...
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A new TV season begins and it's time for a reboot and a reformat of TV By the Decade. As the new season kicks off across the last seven decades, new shows are making their premieres, some very successfully and ...
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Let's Talk About 'First Kidnapping and Now Theft':  Blake has to pull all of his strings to get Adam out of his legal trouble with the feds for his illegal importing, but he puts Adam on notice that he's on ...
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Let's Talk About 'The Beginning of the End':  Welcome new cast members John Slattery and Andre Braugher! The city is eerily quiet when Liz and Diane arrive at their building ... which sits across the street from a Trump building?! Liz ...
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The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is called 'Mining The Mind’s Mines' which is the sort of stupid wordplay I appreciate. The conceit behind that idea is that a planet of silicate lifeforms has attacked 'psychic mines' to ...
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Let's Talk About 'Harry, a Parent':  What is that opening scene about where the husband catches his wife in bed with another man and he goes after the interloper with an axe but the moment gets all Matrix-y? Ben has finally ...
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This week's list of movie premieres is dominated by international productions from the UK to India. Few of this week's films were awards darlings or box office successes, though a few have gone on to achieve cult status, for better ...
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The Season 6 premiere of Rick and Morty is called 'Solaricks' which I have to assume is a reference to the sci-fi movie and novel Solaris which has a lot of weird stuff like replicas and fake memories, so it’s ...
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The latest episode of House of the Dragon is called 'Second of His Name' which in this case heavily refers to the now two-year old son of Viserys and Alicent Hightower, named Aegon, the second after the famous first one ...
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September 1 marked the beginning of Meteorological Autumn, and while the networks have not yet unveiled their new Fall Primetime schedules -- that doesn't generally happen until after the Emmy Awards -- Daytime and Saturday morning have begun to launch ...
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The trailer for Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. is one of the worst I've ever seen.I mean no disrespect toward the marketing folks behind it. This is an incredibly difficult movie to promote and they were probably told by ...
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The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is called 'The Least Dangerous Game' which is naturally a reference to the classic story idea of the 'most dangerous game' that has even had a few Star Trek episodes referencing it ...
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