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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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TRUE DETECTIVE [Season 2 Premiere, Episode 1 Review]: Whyyyy sooooo seriousss???

Season 2 of HBO's True Detective, titled “The Western Book Of The Dead”, doesn't so much start with the same cold open (nor intrigue) of the first season's pilot, nor, does it seem, with the same clarity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4uxGbhO4ag Three disparate storylines intertwine here: Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell) is a boozed-up, divorced Bad Lieutenant type who …

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BEST GEEK TV of 2014 [Podcast]: It’s Still ‘Geek’ to Me, Dammit!

And not one mention of Boardwalk Empire... It’s that time of the year, ladies and gentlemen of the congregation, where the holy chapel of hot geekness lay out their top choices for movies, TV shows, comics and video games. So join the likes of "Divine" Derek Vigeant, "Brother" Myke Ladiona, “Priestess” Eva Ceja, “Cardinal” Roberto …

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