Television

[embedded content] From 1972 through 1997, ABC aired a series of television films called “afterschool specials.” Aimed at the youth market, they usually plucked a topic from the headlines, dramatized it and left you with a clear, actionable message. They were corny as hell, though sometimes one could find devilish delight in “this is what
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[embedded content] The executives behind HBO Max gave their first real preview of the new streaming service on Tuesday, announcing its $14.99 subscription cost and its May 2020 launch window. They also unveiled HBO Max’s slate of original programming. Some shows, like Kaley Cuoco‘s The Flight Attendant and the Gossip Girl sequel series, had been
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Aside from what seems to be the inciting incident in Michonne’s (Danai Gurira) final Walking Dead story (more on that later), “Silence the Whisperers” was an internal episode, focusing on the emotional and mental states of Lydia (Cassady McClincy), Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), and Ezekiel (Khary Payton) specifically, and the increasingly paranoid and fearful communities
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The supporting character spotlight continues on The Blacklist. After Aram’s odyssey into the dark heart of one-percenter death parties in last week’s episode, “Kuwait” pushed Harold (Harry Lennix) to center stage with a quintessential story, told in a quintessential way. A colleague thought to be dead suddenly surfaced very much alive, and very much holding
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“Ghosts,” the third episode of The Walking Dead‘s tenth season, was as well-balanced an episode of the show as you’ll ever see. It divided its time between several characters, and gave them all compelling stuff to do that moved their stories along, especially Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who finally got to demonstrate in a measurable
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One of the purest pleasures of watching a long-running procedural is the episode that gives the spotlight to a supporting character. In the crime and espionage genres, this maneuver typically throws the tech experts — the nerds — into the field, where they’re fundamentally out of their element. Until they’re not, of course. Now seven
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[embedded content] After the disastrous indulgence of ego that was Matthew Wiener‘s The Romanoffs, it’d be totally understandable to be wary of Amazon’s newest anthology series, Modern Love. Adapted by Once’s John Carney from the long-running, (in)famous New York Times column that aims to dissect the many minute and massive ways in which love changes
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