Category: Television
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Constantine Review: The Devil's Vinyl
This week's Constantine continued to show a lot of the same problems. The content was too familiar without its own take on the material and the dialogue still feels expository and overwritten. The "snappy" dialogue...
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THE MCCARTHYS Review: Love McCarthys Style
In its second episode, The McCarthys continues to be a consistently funny and emotionally honest delight. "Love McCarthys Style" takes on the family's inability to express love. In the opening scene, we see how they...
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'American Horror Story’ Psycho Dandy Mott: “I Will Be The U.S. Steel Of Murder”
( American Horror Story: Freak Show pseudo news article from Jupiter, Florida) During a self-motivating workout in his playroom turned body-sculpting studio, Dandy Mott makes a promise to America. And his mother, Gloria Mott, will...
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Four Reasons to Binge-Watch 'Orphan Black'
Orphan Black , a popular science fiction series about human cloning, is a thrilling show worthy of being binge-watched. Starring a remarkably effective Tatiana Maslany, the show is largely about her primary character, Sarah Manning,...
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The Five Best TV Duos of the Last 10 Years
The best duos on television are both entertaining and memorable. While single characters can be powerful individually, duos present the deeper ability to communicate, interact, and exchange ideas. They bicker. They debate. They laugh. If...
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5 Awful Truths We Learned This Halloween On ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show'
On American Horror Story , nothing good ever happens on Halloween. For one day each year, the dead walk among the living, while most of the living remains oblivious to the supernatural forces in play....
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'Constantine' Episode 2: The Darkness Beneath
In its second episode, Constantine continues to show signs of potential while still feeling too much like we've seen all this before. Of course, part of this is because the source material from the 80s'...
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'The McCarthys' Review: Pilot
The McCarthys is a new sitcom about a gay man living in Boston with his close-knit family. Because it's the only network show of the new season with a homosexual protagonist, it's hard for me...
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'Constantine' Review: 'Non Est Asylum'
Note: I haven't read any Hellblazer stories. I plan to for context as I follow the show, but for now I'm going in cold. Constantine 's premiere was a bit underwhelming. It opens with a...
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Early Look at Adult Swim's Must-See 'Mike Tyson Mysteries'
The first two episodes of Mike Tyson Mysteries are everything you expect them to be, and everything you do not expect them to be. Dumb and clever. Blunt and subdued. It's the sort of comedy...
