Why Ben Was The Sparrows’ Number 2 But The Umbrella Academy’s #6
Ben Hargreeves was the Umbrella Academy’s Number 6, but season 3’s Sparrow version is Number 2. Why is there such a huge difference between ranks? Ben Hargreeves is the only character in The Umbrella Academy belonging to both the original Umbrella group…
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House of the Dragon Season 1 Episode 2 Recap: Shellfish Decisions
A new alliance forms, Viserys makes a bold choice, and someone’s face is eaten off by a crab. You knew about the dragons. But did anyone warn you about the crabs? Maybe someone should have warned you about the crabs. Alas, it’s…
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Welcome to Wrexham review: gripping sports doc, but don’t watch it for the celebrities
One for “Last Chance U” fans. There were a lot of different directions this documentary could have gone in. When the news broke that actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney had bought Wrexham AFC, a football club in the fifth tier…
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House of the Dragon Recap: How the ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel weaves real-world echoes into its fantasy realm
Medieval-style medicine obviously had its limits. But a pivotal moment in the “House of the Dragon” premiere will likely resonate for many in a way that goes beyond the realm of fantasy and touches upon real-world concerns about women’s reproductive rights. In…
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TV Review: ‘Better Call Saul’s’ Brilliant, Emotional Finale Is ‘Breaking Bad’ in Reverse
Spoiler alert: This review contains spoilers for “Saul Gone,” the series finale of “Better Call Saul.” It turns out that there was one person the once and future Jimmy McGill would put ahead of his own self-interest. In the striking and…
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Star Turn on ‘Surface’ Deserves a Better Show: TV Review
“Surface” is just good enough for a sympathetic viewer to want it to be better. Like Apple’s most recent glossy drama about a woman in danger, “Shining Girls,” “Surface” effectively evokes the confusion of not knowing who or where one…
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Chase Stokes’ ‘Outer Banks’ stand-in dead after being hit by two cars
Actor Alexander “AJ” Jennings, who was Chase Stokes’ stand-in on “Outer Banks,” is dead following a hit-and-run involving two cars. He was 22. The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a press release that at approximately 2:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday,…
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Maggie on Hulu Is a Romantic-Comedy Throwback in the Worst Way: TV Review
It can feel at times as though the logical endpoint of the streaming revolution is a restaging of the TV landscape of, say, 1990, just atomized across vastly more players. It’s inevitable: With so much content, certain traditional, and perhaps…
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All the New HBO and HBO Max Shows and Movies Coming in July 2022
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin is coming You know it’s a quiet month on HBO Max when the most high-profile premiere is a Pretty Little Liars reboot. Kidding! Kind of! In any case, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin won’t hit the platform until later…
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All the New Release Shows and Movies Coming to Netflix in July 2022
Netflix’s most expensive movie ever is going to Gosling your socks off The new releases on Netflix in July feature dozens of movies and shows, but none are bigger — both literally and figuratively — than Part 2 of Stranger Things Season…
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