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TV Premiere Dates for Fall 2022: Here’s What We’re Excited About and Why
Remember when new TV all premiered in the Fall? That’s not the case anymore, but we still thought this was the best time to launch our new running article about upcoming new and returning TV series that we’re excited about. If you’ve searched for upcoming TV as much as I have, you might be similarly […] More
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Ghosts, Raised by Wolves, and Other Things to Please Your Faculties
Welcome back! There’s a lot of dour stuff going on out there, but let’s not focus on that. Each week you’ll find in this space a set of recommendations from our writers, ranging from TV and film to music and podcasts, or whatever else we might be into at the moment. These things may or may […] More
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A Few of Our Favorite (and Most Disappointing) Things in 2021 TV
It’s time for another round of the venerable TV Obsessive Awards! A word as to the ethos that guides the entries that follow (which also gets to a broader kind of ethos around here): we’re not claiming that our choices are the “best of the year” as though we can inhabit some objective point of […] More
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Evil S2E6: “C Is for Cop”
First of all, let’s talk about Evil S2’s ongoing motif of the pop-up book announcing the title of each episode. “C Is for Cop” looks different, showing the owner of the hands manipulating the book (at least in this episode) to be Sheryl. After replacing the book on the shelf in the Bouchard daughters’ bedroom […] More
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Evil S2E5: “Z Is for Zombie”
Hoo boy, “Z Is for Zombie” brings the spooky this week. While actual zombies are probably the least plausible possibility of Evil so far, this episode works exceptionally well in how it utilizes sound and cinematography. Evil S2E5 opens with Lila Bouchard and her friend Alex watching a zombie movie together. Lila briefly gets up […] More
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in EpisodesEvil S2E4: “E Is for Elevator”
Hoo, boy, is Evil’s latest episode, “E Is for Elevator” (S2E4), an absolute banger. I mean, they all are, but this one is too. Is it irony if Michael Emerson’s acting ability feels like a godsend for him playing such a convincingly devilish character? Leland, you love to hate him, is having the time of […] More
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in EpisodesEvil S2E1: “N Is for Night Terrors”
The following contains spoilers for Evil S2E1, “N Is for Night Terrors” When I was very young, like single digit years, whenever my dad would get home from work, our dog, Shiloh, would get a treat (Milk Bones, remember those?). I recall one instance, my dad got home and my sister and I both wanted […] More
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Let’s Talk About the Evil Season 2 Trailer
Most of the imagery in the striking teaser trailer for Season 2 of Evil won’t have much meaning to those that haven’t seen the first season. For fans, there’s plenty to talk about. The tone is set immediately with our three central protagonists–Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers), David Acosta (Mike Colter) and Ben Shakir (Aasif […] More
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in SeasonsEvil Season 1: Sowing Fear Through Uncertainty
Sight unseen, Evil sounds like a standard-issue primetime CBS procedural with a “case of the week” and occasional character development. However, Evil itself is a clever, gripping and frightening premium-caliber program in the skin of something else. It is startlingly good, boasting interesting characters, creative plotting, and rich thematic concepts. What really makes Season 1 […] More
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in Episode of the WeekNCIS Shows How Trauma Catches Up to Us in “Watchdog”
The following contains spoilers for NCIS S18E10, “Watchdog” NCIS as a whole is somewhat of an ensemble show. However, Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, played by Mark Harmon, has always been the “lead” and heart of the program. A former marine sniper, Gibbs served in Operation Desert Storm and then later joined NCIS. Rising to lead […] More
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Clarice S1E5: “Get Right With God”
“What does it feel like to be so beautiful?” That’s a line from the book (and, it turns out, pretty much the title of the very next episode of CBS’s Clarice), and it never made it into Silence of the Lambs. Jame Gumb, aka Buffalo Bill, says it to Clarice Starling as he lies dying, […] More
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in EpisodesClarice S1E2: Haunted by More Than the “Ghosts of Highway 20”
I don’t know that I will wind up writing every week on the new episodes of Clarice. I don’t want to get caught up in a bunch of recap, and I don’t want to repeat myself too much. That said, so far I can’t shake the need to scream at anyone who will listen that […] More