A review of this week’s The Book of Boba Fett: The Gathering Storm, coming up just as soon as I contact the rat catcher… “The Gathering Storm” is the midpoint of this seven-episode season. Perhaps appropriately, it’s an installment cleaved right down the middle: the first half wrapping up the …
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A review of the Season Two finale of Ted Lasso, “Inverting the Pyramid of Success,” coming up just as soon as I give you a cool nod… It is halftime of Richmond’s final game of the season, and the club’s last chance to gain promotion back to the EPL(*). Nate’s …
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A review of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier finale, “One World, One People,” coming up just as soon as I save people a lot of redacting and a lot of shredding… For its first five episodes, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier kept hovering around mediocrity. Sometimes, like Sam’s …
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A review of this week’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, “The Star-Spangled Man,” coming up just as soon as I’m fighting Gandalf… In Captain America: The First Avenger, you may recall, Stanley Tucci has a small but memorable role as Dr. Abraham Erskine, the immigrant scientist who created the …
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A review of “I Am,” this week’s Lovecraft Country, coming up just as soon as I stop watching and start dancing… “I feel like they just found a smart way to lynch me without me noticing the noose.” —Hippolyta Misha Green’s ambitions with Lovecraft Country are so great that her …
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A review of “The Hungry Caterpillar,” this week’s Killing Eve, coming up just as soon as I put on something really slutty… In some ways, “The Hungry Caterpillar” feels like the real start to Season Two. Villanelle is healed from the knife wound and back in action, albeit still under …
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Saturday Night Live couldn’t have asked more from Jason Momoa. As with all great hosts, Momoa threw himself into every moment, and his natural charisma shone throughout. The show itself rarely met Aquaman’s energy, however, with a middling effort in the middle week of its December run. It stumbled badly …
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