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April 14, 2019April 14, 2019

GAME OF THRONES [Season 8 Premiere Review]: Game Time.

Here it is-- the actual beginning of the end. I think I was almost numb to it... In the months leading up to this final season, I put all things Thrones out of my mind in order to stave off the anticipation, the anxiety and the excitement. As soon as the opening theme hit, however, …

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March 21, 2019

DEADWOOD [Movie News]: Let’s Dance.

The HBO Films presentation Deadwood will debut Friday, May 31 at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT). In this original movie based on David Milch’s acclaimed, Emmy-winning HBO series of the same name which debuted 15 years ago today, the indelible characters of the show are reunited after a decade to celebrate South Dakota’s statehood. Former rivalries are …

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March 5, 2019March 5, 2019

GAME OF THRONES [Season 8 Trailer]: April is Coming.

As if you needed to be told, today HBO dropped what is most likely the FINAL trailer for the FINAL season of its epic hit series, Game of Thrones. We've got the official press release below, along with the latest trailer. Try to catch a peek at what has officially been called the Longest Battle …

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February 26, 2019February 26, 2019

TRUE DETECTIVE, Season 3 [Series Review]: The Fog of Time.

Let me start this off by saying I was wildly wrong about Stephen Dorff, and I'll eat a big ol' heaping pile of crow about that right now, beak and all. Now that that's out of the way... True Detective Season 3 is a vast improvement on Season 2, and with the sort of human, …

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January 15, 2019

TRUE DETECTIVE [Season 3 Premiere Review]: Third Time’s The Charm.

Nic Pizzolatto's Southern Gothic police procedural has returned for its third season, this time headlined by Mahershala Ali, and with a storyline that eschews the over-philosophizing and morose platitudes that bogged down the sophomore season (about which I wrote on this fair site as well). Here, the return to basics approach applies as much to …

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April 25, 2018April 25, 2018

WESTWORLD [Season 2 Premiere Review]: Now Let Me Welcome Everybody to the Wild, Wild West…

Hard to believe that HBO’s most ambitious show this side of Game of Thrones, Westworld, aired its season finale 17 months ago, a damn near a year-and-a-half. Season One “capped” off with Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) plugging the good Dr. Ford at his gala, and the hosts gaining consciousness and attacking everyone. Bernard Lowe …

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