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‘Badsville’ Review: Not Bads

Philip Brown — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:00:38 +0000

The good news about director April Mullen’s ‘Badsville’ is that the movie isn’t nearly as tossed-off and generic as the title suggests. It feels inspired by the poetic deadbeat grit of S.E. Hinton novels and the hyper-stylized aesthetic of Francis Coppola’s cinematic adaptations of them. Mullen doesn’t quite nail the impact or flourishes of those...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.11 Recap: “I Guess We Found Out”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:00:24 +0000

In terms of sheer weirdness, ‘Twin Peaks’ will probably never top Episode 8 this season. I doubt any show ever will. This week’s episode is pretty damn odd, though. A great deal of the episode actually takes place in Twin Peaks this time, so we’ll start there. Twin Peaks Miriam, the girl that Richard Horne...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.10 Recap: “This Calls for Another Donut”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:00:04 +0000

As the ‘Twin Peaks’ pendulum swings wildly from one extreme to another, this week’s episode focuses heavily on the type of David Lynchian quirky comedy that has been in short supply through most of this revival series. It also spends way more screen time in Twin Peaks itself than previous episodes. The episode sort-of addresses...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.05 Recap: “Off in Dreamland Again, Huh?”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:00:18 +0000

The latest entry in Showtime’s ‘Twin Peaks’ revival is less an “episode” in the normal sense of how episodic television works, than a collection of incidents that (presumably) happen to take place around the same time as one another. As an hour of television, it has no clear goal or structure or narrative of its...

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‘iZombie’ 3.01 Recap: “You Really Should Tan and Dye”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:00:43 +0000

Right on the heels of another famous zombie show ending its latest season, The CW has brought its very fun ‘iZombie’ back just in time to fill the void. That is in no way a coincidence. Season 2 ended with some major developments for the series. Liv’s cop partner, the frustratingly oblivious Clive Babineaux, finally...

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‘American Horror Story’ 5.05 Recap: “Look at You in Your Moment of Transplendent Rebirth”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:00:07 +0000

After getting sidetracked a little by that disappointing Halloween episode, ‘American Horror Story’ got back to business last Wednesday and, at least for the most part, back on track. That’s a relief. I was starting to worry about the season. I’ve complained previously about the annoyingly preachy storyline in which Alex (Chloë Sevigny) lectured an...

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‘The Flash’ 1.07 Recap: “You Need to Kick It Up a Notch”

Josh Zyber — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:00:34 +0000

It’s a common trope in superhero stories that, at some point, the hero will lose his powers for a time and have to defeat a villain without them. Since this was inevitable anyway, at least ‘The Flash’ gets it over with fairly early in the show’s first season. Episode ‘Power Outage’ actually gives us two...

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‘Mob City’ 1.03 & 1.04 Recaps: “I Was Never Good on Rides”

Shannon Nutt — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:00:02 +0000

Last week, I chimed in on how disappointing the premiere of ‘Mob City’ turned out to be. As it turns out, viewers were equally unimpressed, as the pilot and second episode (which aired back-to-back) were only able to pull in about 2.3 million viewers. Those are disappointing numbers, even for cable TV, and the drop-off...

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‘Mob City’ Pilot & 1.02 Recap: “I Live in a World of Gray Hats”

Shannon Nutt — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:00:57 +0000

Frank Darabont, the man behind such acclaimed hits as ‘The Shawshank Redemption‘ and ‘The Green Mile‘, as well as the former show-runner of ‘The Walking Dead‘, returns to television this week with ‘Mob City’, a limited run six-episode production that premiered Wednesday night on TNT. (“Limited” in this case only means that ratings will determine...

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