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This review contains Moon Knight spoilers In Moon Knight episode 5, “Asylum”, we finally got to know Marc Spector, and the show was all the better for it. While the latest installment of the Marvel series didn’t fix all the tonal and structural issues it suffered with in its first four episodes, it did offer
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This Barry review contains spoilers. Barry Season 3 Episode 1 Three years is an eternity in TV time, but that’s how long we’ve been without Barry, Bill Hader’s immaculately produced hitman-turned-actor dramedy for HBO. As with all good things, COVID-19 impacted that show’s production schedule, but allowed Hader and co-creator Alec Berg more time to
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The enduring legacy of Star Wars characters comes not only from the actors or the story but also from the amazing themes created for them by composer John Williams. Just mentioning the names “Darth Vader” or “Rey” recalls soaring strings and punching brass, as iconic as the former’s black mask and the latter’s white robes. But what
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This article contains spoilers for the Ghosts season 1 finale. Ghosts on CBS began this September with one of the riskiest and most experimental premises on US broadcast television this season.  The series is an American adaptation of the BBC UK sitcom of the same name. Many previous US remakes of UK sitcoms and dramas
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This HALO review contains spoilers. Halo Episode 5 At last, Halo has figured out how to combine its emotional core with a bit of action. It’s a pity that core doesn’t shine a bit brighter, but hardcore Halo fans might find this episode worth it for the action alone. Feats from the games, and what looks like
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This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s Moon Knight episode 4. Hmm, we thought we had it all figured out! We thought Moon Knight had settled into its groove as a globe-trotting adventure series in the vein of Indiana Jones or The Mummy. Sure, the show certainly had more mysteries to unravel, including Marc’s connection to
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This article contains no Outlander book spoilers, and no spoilers past episode 6 of the current season Outlander fans are still in shock over episode 6’s cliffhanger. Malva was first introduced at the beginning of the season as a new resident of the Ridge who admired Claire’s medical skills. Behind her admiration was a darker
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This review contains spoilers for Marvel’s Moon Knight Marvel’s Moon Knight isn’t lacking in story. Arguably, it has too much story for its own good. In the first three episodes alone we were introduced to a mentally unwell ex-mercenary with a murky past estranged from a wife he’s been lying to for years. Inside him
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There’s never a great time to learn that the corporate entity producing your TV show is calling it quits. For the folks behind Quibi’s Swimming with Sharks, however, the timing of the streamer’s demise was particularly less than ideal.  “We actually learned about the platform officially ending on like the third-to-last day (of shooting),”  Sharks
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Warning: this Doctor Who review contains spoilers. As the middle child in a run of Doctor Who specials, ‘Legend of the Sea Devils’ finds itself in something of an unenviable position. Much like Easter 2009’s ‘Planet of the Dead’, the episode can’t rely on the star power of foes like the Daleks or Cybermen, and
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The first time most Star Trek fans encountered Captain Christopher Pike was in the Original Series adventure “The Menagerie” (which extensively used footage from the original pilot episode for the series titled “The Cage”). This two-part episode introduced some backstory for the USS Enterprise, including the reveal of an almost completely different crew than the
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