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True Detective 3.01 & 3.02 Recap: “We Almost Had a Clean Night”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:00:58 +0000

More than three years since HBO’s True Detective aired its kind-of disastrous second season, creator Nic Pizzolatto has finally regrouped and retooled the show for a third run of episodes. Will fans come back and give him another chance, or has the light already dimmed too much on a series that burned so brightly when...

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Now Streaming: Godless

Josh Zyber — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 13:00:46 +0000

The explosion of quality television programming these days, especially on streaming, has made it nearly impossible to keep up with every new show of interest, no matter how buzzed or acclaimed. The holiday break gave me an opportunity to finally catch up with one, Netflix’s well-regarded Western, Godless. Produced by Steven Soderbergh, the limited series...

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‘Fargo’ 3.01 Recap: “I Ain’t Gonna Lie, It Didn’t Go Smooth”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:00:16 +0000

Noah Hawley has been a pretty busy guy this year. In addition to creating and launching the supremely weird superhero drama ‘Legion‘ a few months ago, Hawley’s fascinating and often hilarious spinoff of the Coen brothers’ ‘Fargo’ returns for its third season on FX. Is the show off to a good start so far? You...

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‘Our Brand Is Crisis’ Review: Political Satire Lacks Teeth

Philip Brown — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:00:17 +0000

As part of his ongoing quest to make at least one film in every genre regardless of whether or not he’s suited to the material, director David Gordon Green has now delivered his version of a spin doctor satire in the mold of ‘Wag the Dog’ or ‘The Candidate’. Taking homegrown media manipulation and dirty...

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‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Pilot Recap: “Are You Ready to Be More?”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:00:30 +0000

“Computers aren’t the thing. They’re the thing that gets us to the thing.” So says a character in AMC’s new series ‘Halt and Catch Fire’, a drama about computer programmers set during the PC revolution of the early 1980s. That line of dialogue may be the clearest and least cryptic thing in the entire premiere...

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