Jun 15, 2022
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There is no sign of Jeff Bridges’ mellow Lebowski image in the new spy series, The Old Man, which has some of the most gruesome and distinctly shot fight scenes since Taken. There’s lots here to satisfy action fans that are above all craving an adrenaline jolt. But it’s a flawed but complex and can’t-miss drama in a year stuffed with them.
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Jun 10, 2022
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Music-based biopics, or series are often (but crucially, not always) a dodgy proposition. While a few have been terrific, many of them are poorly acted, stretch the truth one too many times for dramatic effect, and often miss what made whatever made, or makes, the artist great in the first place. This semi-authorized series, based on guitarist Steve Jones’ autobiography Lonely Boy, falls somewhere in the middle.
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Jun 03, 2022
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There are a lot of roadblocks before Sheila gets everything she is working for and none of them are rehashes of those she navigated in Season 1. This is a brand-new hell for Sheila, with enough redemptions along the way to keep you rooting for her.
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May 11, 2022
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The multiple-award-winning comedy with brilliant writing and flawless cast picks up right where it left off in its second season without missing a comedic beat.
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Apr 29, 2022
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Vanessa Bayer’s seven years of awkward character sketches on Saturday Night Live misfire in the Emmy-nominated actor’s first series, I Love That for You. which has all the qualities of a classic workplace sitcom.
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Apr 27, 2022
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Restrained is the one-word summary for the eight-episode first season of Ten Percent, which would love be to Entourage meets Extras. Sadly, it’s not nearly cutthroat enough for the former and not even remotely funny enough to be the latter.
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Apr 26, 2022
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Time to catch up with Rhys Darby’s and Taika Waititi’s critically acclaimed series that is rooted in romance that is nuanced and proudly queer.
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Apr 25, 2022
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Fourteen years after wrapping his groundbreaking series The Wire, David Simon returns to Baltimore with this gritty crime drama centered around the underlying motivation of a shockingly corrupt plainclothes Baltimore police squad, where feds investigate the badged wrongdoers, while local bureaucrats dither about how to respond.
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Apr 24, 2022
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It would be an understatement to say the new season of Barry starts off with a bang. The best gag from the HBO dramedy’s new episodes involves the titular aspiring actor by day, mob hitman by night fiddling with a cutesy phone app for a deadly bomb. It’s an explosive satire of our relationship to tech in 2022.
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Apr 22, 2022
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Scandal is never as delicious as when it is upper-class British. Based on the notorious real-life divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll in 1963, the three-episode A Very British Scandal ticks all the soap-y, and the reality show boxes.
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