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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HBO Is Treating ‘The Last Of Us’ Like Its New Flagship Series
After recent video game-to-TV adaptation misadventures like Halo on Paramount Plus, it’s easy to be skeptical of other projects in the same genre. But there has always been something about The Last of Us that has seemed liked maybe, just…
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The “House of the Dragon” Première Recap: A Bad-Heir Day
Anew “Game of Thrones” show, in the year of our anxieties 2022, has arrived to ferry us away from our long winter of “Thrones”-lessness. Do we want to go where it’s taking us? “House of the Dragon,” HBO’s lavish prequel…
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Tales of the Walking Dead Premiere Recap: Did the Spinoff’s First Serving Leave You Hungry for More?
Once the first of the Tales of the Walking Dead was told in Sunday’s “Evie/Joe,” a single question loomed large: Did the premiere of the anthology series — the third spinoff of the AMC drama that wraps its 11-season run this fall…
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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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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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Money Heist Korea Review: Makers don’t disappoint with the Korean twist to the Spanish series
Money Heist Korea is an official adaptation of the Spanish series, Money Heist. The show adds a unique cultural flavour to the thrilling heist witnessed onscreen. The Spanish series La Casa De Papel aka Money Heist is easily one of…
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Amazon’s ‘Chloe’: TV Review
The psychological thriller stars Erin Doherty (‘The Crown’) as a woman stalking her childhood friend on social media, who infiltrates her inner circle following the friend’s death. Twelve years after the launch of Instagram, it’s hardly news that no one’s…
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