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Back in the old days, TV shows were under significant pressure from the watchful eye of moral guardians to keep their content squeaky clean, presumably for the sake of the children, and at the expense of those who wanted to … Continued

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There’s a reason why the term “mood music” was coined and it has everything to do with the cerebral orgasm you experience when listening to Michael Kiwanuka’s “Cold Little Heart,” featured in the opening credits of HBO’s Big Little Lies. … Continued

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Big Little Lies
Laura Dern The Tale

Laura Dern has never fallen out of the spotlight, but the beautiful and talented actor is having a particularly strong career resurgence lately. She recently won her first Emmy award for her role on Big Little Lies; the universally-acclaimed drama … Continued

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The seventh season finale of Game of Thrones aired in August 2017. The eighth and final season doesn’t debut until sometime in 2019. For the passionate and devoted fans of the the fantasy world created by George R.R. Martin, the wait … Continued

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Troy

Fans of Westworld have been waiting a long time for the award-winning series to return. Indeed, the first season finale aired on December 4, 2016, almost a year-and-a-half ago, leading to a much longer gap than most TV viewers are … Continued

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Without a doubt, Elvis Presley is one of the most legendary musical icons of all time. A singer without equal, his talent turned Rock and Roll from a taboo niche to a mainstream phenomenon. Discussions of Elvis inevitably descend into … Continued

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Elvis The Searcher
Bill Hader

Former Not Ready for Primetime Player, Bill Hader, still makes the occasional appearance on his old show, Saturday Night Live—most recently as Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci. But the last couple of years we’ve actually heard from this versatile actor more than … Continued

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The sci-fi thriller Westworld returns on HBO on April 22nd, in the meantime we’ll make do with actor Evan Rachel Wood‘s dark drama Allure. What starts out as a sweet infatuation between the teenaged Eva (Julia Sarah Stone) and her … Continued

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Westworld

Westworld took us all by surprise when it launched on HBO back in 2016. Its high-concept science fiction premise was loosely based on the movie by novelist Michael Chichton, but expanded to include full-blown cyberpunk pathos, with inhuman androids with … Continued

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On the heels of HBO’s 1970’s Times Square saga, The Deuce, comes the story of a young prostitute during those crazy, dirty, sleazy, pre-AIDs days in New York City. Writer Janet Capron’s mostly true memoir, Blue Money, exposes “the life” … Continued

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