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Snowpiercer :: Our Answer for Everything
It's not made all that clear on this week's Snowpiercer, but this episode rewinds back to the end of Episode 5, still leaving us guessing as to why the train sped past Melanie at the end of Episode 6, an ...
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The World to Come offers a bittersweet, heartbreaking tale of connection
There’s a feeling that you sometimes get when watching certain types of movies, which I often think of as a sort of 'trying too hard'. This can happen with indie movies much the same as blockbusters, although anything with a ...
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Pennyworth :: The Bleeding Heart
Pennyworth returns with the fifth episode of the second season -- the halfway point -- and this week finds Alfie treading a dangerous line. Ever since he got mixed up with Gulliver Troy, aka Gully, his life has taken a ...
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TV by the Decade :: March 7•13
The second week of March through the decades was noteworthy because just two new series premiered, and both shows featured the star putting their own life experiences to use for their characters. While one of the leads played a fictional ...
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WandaVision :: The Series Finale
Note that this recap will include details of the WandaVision finale. Proceed only if you've watched the episode and share your thoughts in the comments section below.These nine weeks seem to have flown by in the blink of an eye, ...
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Resident Alien :: Sexy Beast
The closer alien Harry gets to putting his ship back together to complete his mission -- and yes, he is still focused on wiping out the human race -- the good people of Patience, and some others not-so-local, are getting ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #32 :: March 3•9
New movies premiered in every decade over the last 100 years this week, from classic silents to modern animated films. This week saw Valentino's big break, the third Sherlock Holmes film, the screen debuts of several actors including Grace Kelly, ...
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Snowpiercer :: Many Miles From Snowpiercer
We are off the train this week as the episode 'Many Miles From Snowpiercer' rewinds a bit to just after Melanie leapt off the train to make her way to the research facility to see if her theory about the ...
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TV by the Decade :: Feb 28•Mar 6
The first week of March did not yield much in the way of successful TV series launches. The five decades between 1951 and 1991 had no new shows at all. 2001 gave us a spin-off series that had a big ...
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WandaVision :: Previously On
Wanda Maximoff (and brother Pietro) made their official MCU debuts back in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron (although I believe she also popped up at the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, making her a character that has never ...
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Dickinson :: You cannot put a Fire out
The season finale of Dickinson is named after the poem 'You cannot put a Fire out', which is often interpreted to be metaphoric in nature about the nature of fame or infamy, which cannot be 'put out': You cannot put a ...
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Riverdale :: Back to School
Whodathunk that after Archie and his pals graduated from Riverdale High that they'd be back to school seven years later ... as teachers? Of course you can't have a show called Riverdale if the main characters no longer live in ...
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