A review of “Desperate Times,” this week’s Killing Eve, coming up just as soon as I tell you which Doctor Who companion I fantasize about most… Midway through “Desperate Times,” an irritated Niko suggests that their family’s new security guard is there to protect him and Eve from Villanelle. This …
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It was the best of shows, it was the worst of shows. There aren’t many episodes of Saturday Night Live that have only incredibly great or incredibly bad sketches, but Sandra Oh’s first time hosting yielded essentially only those two results. The first twenty minutes or so were so dire …
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There’s little better than seeing a first-time host slay one’s first time hosting Saturday Night Live. As befitting someone that seamlessly played multiple characters in both Split and Glass, James McAvoy inhabited every distinct character in tonight’s episode so seamlessly that I’m already looking forward to the next time he …
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The fact that Liev Schreiber hosted a stronger episode of Saturday Night Live than Steve Carell tells you all you need to know about the unpredictability baked into the show’s DNA. That fact says absolutely nothing about the two men involved but rather the unpredictable nature of a show that …
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A review of this week’s The Romanoffs, “End of the Line,” coming up just as soon as I leave the tags on… “There’s something wrong with that baby.” -Anka After a disastrous pair of episodes — one a clunky defense of Matthew Weiner himself, the other a dramatically inert travelogue …
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The Walking Dead‘s Season Eight premiere last week was undoubtedly action-packed; in retrospect, however, you can see how most of the hour was about the bluster before the battle. All the fireworks happened in the last third – and even that was just the opening salvo for what could be …
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