A review of this week’s Atlanta, “Cancer Attack,” coming up just as soon as I’m the white Liam Neeson… After last week’s detour to an America transformed by reparations, Atlanta returns to Paper Boi’s European tour for a good old-fashioned locked-room mystery. Only because this is Atlanta, it is only …
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A review of the Lovecraft Country season finale, “Full Circle,” coming up just as soon as the whole car sings along to “Sh-Boom” by The Chords… “He knew telling a story was a kind of power, but he also knew it wasn’t enough.” —Diana Throughout this often remarkable, occasionally vexing …
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A review of “Sundown,” the series premiere of HBO‘s Lovecraft Country (which I reviewed earlier this month), coming up just as soon as my life is saved by Jackie Robinson… “I love that the heroes get to go on adventures in other worlds, defy insurmaountable odds, defeat the monster, save …
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This week’s episode is called “The Fight to the Death” for good reason: Two enormous ice bears battle for the crown of their kingdom. There’s bellowing and roaring, biting and clawing. Two animals enter the ring. Only one is left standing. And that’s not the scariest thing that happens in …
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A review of this week’s Watchmen, “This Extraordinary Being,” coming up just as soon as I read Action Comics #1 for the first time… Many of the most distinct and beloved American art forms were invented by black artists who were then quickly eclipsed in the public imagination by their …
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Everyone loves to make wild prognostications about Saturday Night Live before each season starts. New cast members, departed cast members, cast members that got cast and never actually made it to the season itself: Fodder. Announced hosts (even stretching into December this time around): Total fodder. The anticipation of an …
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What do you call a heel turn for a villain? Succession has always been driven forward by the cruelty and vindictiveness of Brian Cox’s Logan Roy, but on Sunday’s episode, “Hunting,” he took it to heights that surprised even the other characters. It was a descent into madness for the …
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Another season of Saturday Night Live is winding down, and looking back, it’s hard to figure out a particular through line to describe the past year of the show. If there’s one, it’s that the show has finally decided during the second half of Season 44 that simply showing clips …
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“We may have defeated them, but we still have us to contend with.” So says Tyrion Lannister regarding the plight that faces the people of Westeros — and the show that chronicles them. Yes, the dead are no more. But will the living choose to exist together as one? Or …
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A review of “Janet(s),” this week’s episode of The Good Place, coming up just as soon as your amusement has been scheduled… Well, what do you know? The Good Place returns to the afterlife full-time and turns out one of its best episodes in a long time. Funny how that …
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