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TV by the Decade :: Sept 26•Oct 2

It's Premiere Week Part III, and our 160th post! It's a huge week with many long-running series making their debuts so we won't waste time making you guess what they are. Thanks for checking this feature out every week, but ...
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September 27, 2021 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Alias, Citizen Baines, Dr. Kildare, Gruen Playhouse, Hazel, Homeland, Ichabod and Me, Princesses, Reasonable Doubts, Scrubs, Soul Train, Star Trek: Enterprise, Street Justice, Suburgatory, Television, Terra Nova, The Dick Powell Show, The Jerry Springer Show, The Red Skelton Show, Top Cat, TV by the Decade, TV Commentary, Undercover / Leave a comment

Chapelwaite :: The Prophet

Things are taking a drastic turn in Preacher's Corner as Rebecca's claims about Phillip Boone still being alive and stalking the streets of town are met with scepticism, but she doubles down when she reveals Stephen Boone is also still ...
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September 26, 2021 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Chapelwaite, EPIX, Television, The Prophet, TV Commentary / Leave a comment

Dynasty :: You Vicious, Miserable Liar / Affairs of State and Affairs of the Heart

It was a double dose of Dynasty this week as we head into next week's Season 4 finale, so let's get to it! Episode 419: You Vicious, Miserable Liar Fallon is despondent over Liam not responding to her phone calls, even though ...
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September 26, 2021 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Affairs of State and Affairs of the Heart, another major network, Ashley Day, Dynasty, Dynasty Season 4, Eliza Bennett, Kara Royster, Randy J. Goodwin, Television, TV Commentary, You Vicious Miserable Liar / Leave a comment

Dear Evan Hansen Movie Review :: Dear Evan Hansen delivers a powerful message

Full disclosure before delving into this review -- I've never seen the stage production of Dear Evan Hansen. It was supposed to tour last year and I would have seen it then but, you know, a pandemic got in the ...
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September 25, 2021 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: ★★, Amandla Stenberg, Amy Adams, Ben Platt, Colton Ryan, Danny Pino, Dear Evan Hansen, DeMarius Copes, Drama, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Movie Reviews, Movies, Musical, Nik Dodani, Universal Pictures / Leave a comment

Ted Lasso :: No Weddings and a Funeral

The latest episode of Ted Lasso is called 'No Weddings and a Funeral' an obvious reference to Four Weddings and a Funeral, and boy, is it some funeral. At the start of the episode, Rebecca’s mum catches her post-sexy time ...
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September 25, 2021 / by Jeremy Fogelman / tags: Apple TV Plus, No Weddings and a Funeral, Ted Lasso, Ted Lasso Season 2, Television, TV Commentary / Leave a comment

Star Trek: Lower Decks :: Where Pleasant Fountains Lie

The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is called 'Where Pleasant Fountains Lie', which is yet another in many Shakespeare quotes for Star Trek episodes. We start with one of the two plotlines of the story where the Cerritos ...
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September 24, 2021 / by Jeremy Fogelman / tags: Jeffrey Combs, Jessica McKenna, June Diane Raphael, Kari Wahlgren, Paramount Plus, Paul Scheer, Phil LaMarr, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2, Television, TV Commentary, Where Pleasant Fountains Lie / Leave a comment

Doom Patrol :: Possibilities Patrol / Vacay Patrol / Dead Patrol

It's been almost 14 months since we last saw the Doom Patrol, left encased in wax as The Candlemaker came for Dorothy. It wasn't a bad season finale, but it wasn't the season finale as the series was forced to ...
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American Horror Story Double Feature: Red Tide :: Winter Kills

It's not the end of the season, but it is the end of 'Red Tide', Part 1 of this American Horror Story: Double Feature, and the lingering question is will it be as unsatisfying as almost all of the final ...
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September 23, 2021 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Alan Brooks, American Horror Story, American Horror Story Season 10, another cable network, Benjamin Papac, Denis O'hare, Dot-Marie Jones, Double Feature, Red Tide, Robin Weigert, Television, TV Commentary, Winter Kills / Leave a comment

Riverdale :: Dance of Death

After this week there are just two episodes left for the fifth season of Riverdale (Season 6 premieres on November 16 with a five-episode 'mini-series'), and they seem to have completely wrapped up the season's over-arching storyline of the Lonesome ...
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