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Imagine the experience of being one of the first individuals to see Lin-Manuel Miranda’s now-classic Hamilton: An American Musical live.  The first thing you notice is the spartan, largely empty stage. Then as Leslie Odom Jr. takes the stage as Aaron Burr followed by Miranda’s Hamilton, you realize that this production about America’s founding fathers

This The Twilight Zone review contains spoilers. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 10 The Twilight Zone was always a little bit hokey and that is a part of its charm. It was often stylized, sometimes funny, frequently heightened and not always realistic. We can’t criticize it for that. But season 2 episode 10 ‘You

Amazon Studios and Bethesda are teasing a Fallout project. We don’t know the details yet. So far, the studios have just dropped a teaser video on Twitter for something being made by independent film production company Kilter Films. Here’s the brief (and very cryptic teaser): This is a developing story…

Carl Reiner had a particular genius for comedy. While some of his seminal works, The Dick Van Dyke Show and his directorial debut Enter Laughing, were autobiographical, Reiner was amazingly versatile. Two of his most contrasting pieces, Where’s Poppa? (1970) and Oh, God! (1977) will be included on the bill as Turner Classic Movies celebrates

Two weeks away from its debut, NBC’s new streaming service Peacock is taking the time to preen its feathers.  NBCUniversal announced today that it has reached an agreement with rival media conglomerate ViacomCBS to license some of its television and film content. Much of the TV and film offerings will be present on Peacock’s July

Ozark Season 4 has been ordered by Netflix. However, the fourth frame will serve as the final one for the acclaimed crime series and its tale of the Byrde family’s bonanza of bad choices. Netflix’s order for Ozark Season 4 will yield a slightly expanded home stretch for the series, manifesting with 14 episodes compared

Comedy legend and TV pioneer Carl Reiner died at 98, according to Variety. His assistant, Judy Nagy,  said he was with his family when he died of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills on Monday night. Reiner was one of the true greats. He helped shape comedy on television from the early golden

When I sat down to watch the We Bare Bears movie I was expecting it to be a light and fun beacon of hope in these dark times. The show has always been that, with the wacky antics of the bears a constant source of comfort. I got that sure, but what I was surprised

This Stargirl review contains spoilers. Stargirl just keeps getting better and better every single week. “Shiv Part One” represents the series’ first foray into multi-part storytelling and it’s a near-perfect hour, giving us everything from Justice Society drama and teenage dating angst to messy Whitmore-Dugan family dynamics. Plus, the episode even manages to make Blue

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels ends with the same lines in which it began: “There will come a time when the world is ready for me, when nation will battle nation, when race will devour race, when brother will kill brother until not a soul is left. Are you ready?” Only this time, Magda (Natalie

The Simpsons will no longer feature white actors voicing non-white characters, according to Variety. The Simpsons producers did not say whether the roles will be recast or written-out. “Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,” the producers said in a statement. The Fox series made a similar action three

Netflix removed one of the fan favorite episodes of Community from its streaming service on Friday, deleting “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons” from its selection of season 2 episodes. By the company’s reasoning, this is due to the use of blackface in the episode. In the episode in question, the controversial incident occurs early when the

This The Twilight Zone review contains spoilers. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 4 One of my favorite episodes of the original Twilight Zone is called “A Nice Place to Visit.” It’s about a dirty rotten gambler who finds himself in heaven, only to discover that he’s actually in hell. Sorry for the spoiler for

This The Twilight Zone review contains spoilers. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 5 Remember the opening of Ghostbusters? After that poor librarian got her socks knocked-off by the library ghost, we meet Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), and he’s testing two people for psychic powers. Venkman was using something called Zener cards, known mostly for

The following contains spoilers for The Twilight Zone season 2 episode 1. The first episode in The Twilight Zone season 2 feels right at home with the classic installments from the original black-and-white series. A frustrated guy named Phil (Jimmi Simpson) falls in love with a voice in his head. He’s not crazy, it is

This The Twilight Zone review contains spoilers. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 2 From The Matrix to Vanilla Sky and several, several Philip K. Dick novels, the notion that our lives are a perpetual dream fueled by technology, is a science fiction staple. Usually, this distinction is fairly binary: There’s a real-world, and a

This The Twilight Zone review contains spoilers. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 1 The things most people who have never seen The Twilight Zone know about The Twilight Zone are the endings.  One does not need to have watched any of the 156 episodes of the original Rod Serling-hosted run of the show to

This review contains spoilers for Agents of SHIELD. Agents of SHIELD Season 7 Episode 5 The sheer depth of the Marvel references in this week’s Agents of SHIELD episode, “A Trout in the Milk,” distinguishes it from all others before it, and MCU and comic fans are likely ecstatic about everything from the retro blue

Jeremy Carver has big things planned for Doom Patrol season 2. Literally.  The first season of the DC Universe series about super powered, and always bickering, misfits ended with most of the team shrunk to action-figure size. With the sophomore outing of the series debuting June 25, executive producer and showrunner Carver thinks it’s time

HBO Max is set to enter into its second month of existence. And you know what that means: it’s Christmas in July! HBO Max’s list of new releases for July 2020 is highlighted by one prominent Christmas movie: last year’s Emilia Clarke-starring Last Christmas. But the real cause for Christmas in July is all the

Lockdown has inspired some great satirical art. Only yesterday I saw a dog waste bin in my local woods affixed with a picture of Dominic Cummings. Our movements, like those of the dogs of Blean Nature Reserve, may be contained, but our creativity runs free.  In the case of Staged, a six-part BBC One comedy starring

Finally, a giveaway with Tegridy. No, we’re not giving out jars of Randy Marsh’s local, small batch marijuana. We’re giving away the next best thing: South Park Season 23 on Blu-ray, thanks to Paramount and Comedy Central. South Park’s 23rd season was a memorable one. It featured the show’s landmark 300th episode. Nine episodes sported

Warning: contains spoilers for The Luminaries finale The Luminaries is a story about confidence tricks, lies, unlikely coincidences and an impossible connection. Set in the 1866 Gold Rush on New Zealand’s West Coast, it follows two émigrés – Anna Weatherall and Emery Staines – fortune-seekers in a new land who are deceived and manipulated by

This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Episode 6 A broken window is, normally, an inconvenience. The rain might get in, or bugs, but a little duct tape and a piece of cardboard or plastic wrap and the window is whole enough to serve its purpose until it can be replaced. A broken window on Snowpiercer

Cursed is coming soon to Netflix, set to showcase an interpretation of the Arthurian Lady of the Lake character as adapted by comic book legend Frank Miller and screenwriter Tom Wheeler. A teaser trailer for Netlix’s Cursed has arrived, setting the release date of July 17th for the 10-episode fantasy series. The clip, which runs

No need to boot up the “Retrace-Your-Step-Alizer”, Solar Opposites is coming back. Hulu has ordered Solar Opposites season 3, according to Variety. Solar Opposites season 2 had already previously been confirmed when Hulu confirmed the series for a two-season, 16 episode order. The first batch of those 16 episodes premiered with the eight-episode season 1

Tomorrow (Saturday, June 20th), the DC TV Podcasts Network will be hosting a special fundraiser to raise money for Feeding America, a nonprofit organization that engages with the fight to end hunger through work in food banks and more, a cause that has only become more pressing during this time of pandemic and financial insecurity. In their sixth

This Harley Quinn review contains spoilers. Harley Quinn Season 2 Episode 12 Harley Quinn season 2 has been nothing short of a total delight and as we reach the penultimate episode the show delivers on its promise with an action-packed installment that will satisfy both your lust for violence and romantic tendencies. See, this is

As a novel, The Luminaries is structurally ornate. The Booker Prize-winner is 832 pages long and divided into 12 parts – one for each sign of the zodiac, each systematically decreasing in length according to the pattern of a waning moon. There are celestial charts, and at the head of each chapter is a 19th century-style precis of

A squire’s job never ends and young Patrick is set to pick up his sword again soon. Hulu has renewed animated medieval comedy Crossing Swords for season 2, according to Variety. The renewal comes just under a week after the first season consisting of 10 episodes premiered on June 12. The show’s second season will