A review of this week’s The Good Place, “The Worst Possible Use of Free Will,” coming up just as soon as they use this place to shoot porn… This has been a tricky season for The Good Place. Sending the four dum-dums down to Earth (and then having Michael and …
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We’ve seen the face of evil. It belongs to Henry Deaver. Sort of. Castle Rock‘s first season finale — “Romans” — is a tale of two Henrys. There’s “our Henry,” played by André Holland: a beleaguered lawyer haunted by his unexplained disappearance as a teenager. And there’s “alt-Henry,” aka The …
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This column contains SPOILERS for all of Billions Season 3, which aired its finale earlier this week. The midpoint of Billions Season 3 featured a huge moment for the series to date: the Showtime drama’s arch-rivals, U.S. attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) and hedge fund mogul Bobby “Axe” Axelrod (Damian …
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Set in 1971, David Simon’s sleazier-than-thou new HBO show treats Manhattan like a Magic 8-Ball, where losers from the outer boroughs, uptown or across the country get shaken up; the hope is that they come up with a better future for themselves than “REPLY HAZY, ASK AGAIN LATER.” Maggie Gyllenhaal …
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