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TV by the Decade :: May 23•29
It was not a good week for two of the three shows that premiered in 2001 and 2011. One show lasted 13 episodes, and another had six but only aired four episodes. Another went for more than 500 episodes over ...
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Dynasty :: The Aftermath
Well, the third season cliffhanger from last week (what was meant to be the third season cliffhanger, that is) was no Moldavian Massacre. No one died, not even Evan. Kirby's stab wound missed all the major organs, and Blake can't ...
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Grey’s Anatomy :: Tradition
So it's obvious that Jesse Williams and Greg Germann went and made 'get-outta-dodge' plans back while ABC was waffling about whether or not to renew Grey's for its 1800th season. (Just the 18th. For now.) In one of the more ...
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Legendary :: Pop Tart
We're already halfway through the competition and six Houses remain to battle it out for Legendary House and $100,000. The theme of this week's main competition is Pop Art and most of the Houses actually picked a pop artist to ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #43 :: May 19•25
The first half of the century didn't produce many notable films but 1971 saw the release of the third film in a very popular franchise. 1981 had five new releases that featured stars Charles Bronson, Richard Pryor, Sean Connery, Alan ...
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Pose :: Take Me To Church
With only three episodes remaining after this week's, Pose is pulling out all the stops to showcase the supporting players we really don't know all that much about, and putting together an amazing guest cast for this episode as well ...
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Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist :: Zoey’s Extraordinary Goodbye
The season finale of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is called 'Zoey’s Extraordinary Goodbye' but that title is really just a tease. For nearly the entire episode Zoey obsesses over telling Max how she feels about him and wavering between being able ...
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TV by the Decade :: May 16•22
After 140 weeks of TV By The Decade, this is the first week in which no new series have premiered across seven decades. Of course we're in the middle of May, a time when the networks traditionally bring the TV ...
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Profile is an innovative, engrossing tale of a reporter going too far
A fairly new way of telling visual stories is with a technology platform called 'Screenlife', which has been used for such horror oriented movies as Searching and Unfriended. We see literally everything on the screen (usually an Apple device so ...
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Dynasty :: Vows Are Still Sacred
There are a couple of things really obvious about Dynasty thus far this season: (1) These first two episodes were obviously meant to be the last two episodes of Season 3, especially with this week's cliffhangers, and (2) Daniella Alonso ...
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Legendary :: Seven Deadly Sins
The seven remaining Houses faced off in two challenges this week. The first challenge had each House taking on one of the Seven Deadly Sins, featuring fabulous fashions from head-to-toe inspired by their Sin in an all-House production ... while ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #42 :: May 12•18
Every decade saw new releases this week, some classics, some moneymakers, some award winners (or nominees), some justly forgotten. 1931 saw James Cagney in his first major starring role, 1951 produced a controversial biopic, 1971 gave Vincent Price an iconic ...
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