Better Call Saul is finally back for the first half of its sixth and final season. A review of the two-episode season premiere, “Wine and Roses” and “Carrot and Stick,” coming up just as soon as mesothelioma buys me a vacation house… “Wolves and sheep.” —Jimmy Every previous Saul season …
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A review of this week’s Winning Time, “Is That All There Is?” coming up just as soon as you come back with a real business plan… Among the many conflicts that Winning Time established in its series premiere was incumbent Lakers coach Jerry West’s opposition to drafting Magic Johnson with …
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A review of “What It Takes,” this week’s episode of Succession, coming up just as soon as I throw cake batter at a brick wall… “What It Takes” borrows its title from Richard Ben Cramer’s 1992 political nonfiction opus What It Takes: The Way to the White House, which chronicles …
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A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “The Signal,” coming up just as soon as I make a joke for people born in the early- to mid-Seventies… Midway through “The Signal,” Roy Kent offers a characteristically blunt assessment of what Ted’s leadership has done for Jamie on the pitch: Ted …
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A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “Lavender,” coming up just as soon as I find out that George Harrison has died… Is Ted Lasso a good coach, or just a good person? Are the two mutually exclusive? This was occasionally a source of conflict a year ago, when Coach …
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A review of this week’s Fargo, “Raddoppiarlo,” coming up just as soon as I sing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”… “You’ve got to see the whole picture. That’s the point.” —Doctor Senator Loosely translated, “Raddoppiarlo” is Italian for “double it,” which is an appropriate title for an episode that …
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A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “Ding Dong,” coming up just as soon as I’m a Korean toilet ghost… It’s strange to think that, prior to “Ding Dong,” Kyra Sedgwick only played Madeline Wuntch about a dozen times over the run of this series. That’s how strong an impression …
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The Deuce has come to an end with its series finale, the aptly-titled “Finish It.” A review of the episode, and overall thoughts on the series, coming up just as soon as I study taxidermy… When the end credits rolled on last week’s “That’s a Wrap,” it seemed like a …
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What do we say to the god of death? Eat this. It wasn’t the once and future king Jon Snow who took down the Night King and ended the years-in-the-making assault of the dead against the living. It wasn’t the Queen of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen or the Three-Eyed Raven Bran …
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