A review of this week’s Succession, “Lion in the Meadow,” coming up just as soon as there are goons and stooges and roughjacks there to administer a beating… “The Beatles put out some of their best shit when they were suing each other, right?” Kendall argues midway through “Lion in …
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A review of this week’s WandaVision, “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!,” coming up just as soon as I smell crime… With “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!,” WandaVision basically skips over the Nineties(*) and heads straight to this century for an episode in the mode of Malcolm in the Middle. The show has cheated decades …
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After last week’s sojourn to Logan’s hometown, it’s time for a two-season storyline to finally, officially, unravel. The prior episode’s “existential threat” — a whistleblower from the company’s cruise division stepping forward — is now on a 60 Minutes-style news show, alleging that Brightstar, the Roys’ cruise division, was a …
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If you want something done right, give it to actor Zahn McClarnon to do. That’s the logical conclusion to draw coming out of this week’s episode of Westworld, titled “Kiksuya” – and the series’ best hour by a considerable margin. For once, the show’s annoyances (easy escapes, constant pointless bickering, …
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Dismemberment, disembowelment and decapitation: Traditionally, these aren’t what you’d call teachable moments. But thanks to some swordpoint shenanigans in Shogunworld, all three figure prominently into a key scene in this week’s episode of Westworld (“Phase Space”). Even better, they go a long way toward demonstrating why this installment is such …
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As a title for this week’s episode of The Deuce, “Show and Prove” is a tough one to beat. Within its dirty world of 1971 Times Square, the phrase refers to the NYPD’s demand for sex workers to produce paperwork proving they’ve already been arrested within the past 48 hours. …
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