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Pennyworth :: The Lion and Lamb
Well, Pennyworth has concluded its second season -- Epix, are you going to greenlight a third? -- and successfully answered a few of the nagging questions I had from the penultimate episode.Such as how did Alfred and company, including his ...
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TV by the Decade :: April 11•17
Only eight new series premiered this week across the decades, and most of them in 2011. One was notoriously cancelled after two episodes, another lasted three seasons but ended prematurely due to bad scheduling by the network, and one went ...
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Poirot and Marple get the Kino Lorber Blu-ray treatment
The murder mystery novels of Agatha Christie have been popular for decades. Christie's play The Mousetrap ran in London's West End continuously from 1952 to 2020 when it was forced to shut down after more than 27,500 performances due to ...
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Grey’s Anatomy :: Sorry Doesn’t Always Make It Right
Seriously? SERIOUSLY!? Can someone please tell me why this episode was flagged as a crossover event with Station 19? Because other than that newlywed couple being transported from a Station 19 incident, bringing Ben Warren to the ambulance bay for ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #37 :: April 7•13
Every decade but one had new movie releases this week, and while the Oscar winners are few and far between, there are quite a few Golden Raspberry Award contenders. There are also quite a few hits and films that have ...
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Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist :: Zoey’s Extraordinary Birthday
The most recent episode of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is called 'Zoey’s Extraordinary Birthday' and is about the potential birthday party of Zoey and some of the possible drama with it. The drama is ultimately pretty mild and the ending fairly ...
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Pennyworth :: Paradise Lost
After Alfred's harrowing encounter in the woods with Gully -- and we still don't know if Gully survived the ordeal -- Mama Pennyworth is being very overly protective of her injured son, to the point where she surprised everyone in ...
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TV by the Decade :: April 4•10
The first three decades of our TV history timeline didn't yield a single new series during this particular week, but things began to pick up in 1981 where we got a spin-off of one of the most popular sitcoms on ...
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Godzilla goes another round in 4K
Everyone was excited in the Summer of 2014 when Warner Bros. released a brand new Godzilla movie to erase the stink of the previous American version that had several missteps, including redesigning the classic Japanese titan. Warner Brothers did a ...
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Grey’s Anatomy :: Breathe
The only thing that might have possibly made this week's episode more perfect was a freak-surprise appearance by Cristina during the 'dance it out' because we've successfully weaned Meredith off the vent. Oh, yeah, so that happened. At the end ...
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Resident Alien :: Heroes of Patience
Alien Harry is finding his situation growing more dire as the 'men in black' are searching for him, and D'Arcy has brought Sheriff Mike and Deputy Liv to the cabin to show them that the man she loves is dead ...
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Riverdale :: The Pincushion Man
In case you didn't know, this week's Riverdale is the 'mid-season finale' ... and they really saved a lot of the good stuff for this week. But when will the show return in this atypical TV season? The end of ...
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