Rachel Brosnahan hosted the first Saturday Night Live of 2019, but the show didn’t do much to highlight her comedic skills. Some hosts serve as the centerpiece of the proceedings. Others blend into the ensemble cast, making it seem as if they have always been there. But Brosnahan (through no …
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An odd couple of cops catches a disturbing murder case. The victim is posed in ritualistic fashion, with handmade pagan symbolism left at the scene. Their investigation leads them into dark and depressive corners of the downwardly mobile American South. Years later, questions arise about whether the real killer had …
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A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Wiedersehen,” coming up just as soon as I credit my views to the University of American Samoa (go Land Crabs!)… “Jimmy, you are always down.” -Kim Jimmy makes two mistakes at his bar reinstatement hearing. The more obvious one, which Kim calls …
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You don’t need to be a perfect show to produce a perfect scene – and tonight episode ofThe Deuce(titled “What Kind of Bad?”) proved it. The problems that keep David Simon and George Pelecanos’s behemoth of a period piece from reaching escape velocity are all still there, to be sure. …
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