The latest adaptation of the iconic Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations takes many liberties from the book, but it nails the dark period-drama vibe. Sinister and tragic, Great Expectations is a coming-of-age story about an orphan, Pip, who escapes poverty -- but at what cost? The cast alone makes it worth the watch, especially Olivia...
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There's no such thing as a bad season of Justified. I've been rewatching the beloved neo-Western as I eagerly await the premiere of Justified: City Primeval (set to debut later this year), and I forgot just how much I love the third season. Season 2 is probably the best season of Justified (aka Raylan vs. the Bennett clan), but the third...
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In this hilarious and adorable anime, secret agent Loid "Twilight" Forger ends up in his stickiest mission yet when he's tasked with infiltrating a strict private school. With world peace at stake, Forger adopts a daughter to enroll in the school and creates a fake relationship with a woman to act as her mother. But, unbeknownst to him, his new...
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Mel Brooks is back with History of the World, Part II, his delightful comedy series now streaming on Hulu. The show, which includes parodies of some of the key moments in humanity's brief time on earth, boasts a truly wonderful cast. Bringing to life everyone from the creator of the Kama Sutra to a mudpie-slinging peasant are Johnny Knoxville,...
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March 14 is the final day to watch Arrested Development on Netflix. Premiering in 2003, Mitchell Hurwitz's critically adored series about a once-wealthy family immersed in financial and personal turmoil is a modern television classic. The first three seasons are a dense tapestry of incisive comedy, deftly blending extreme silliness with complex...
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Even though it didn't win the Oscar for Best Animated Short on Sunday night, Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon's delightful coming-of-age film is still worth a watch. (It's streaming free on Hulu right now!) Adapted from Ribon's memoir, and directed by Gunnarsdóttir, My Year of Dicks recalls a 15-year-old girl's journey in 1991 as she attempts ...
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The new Fox sitcom Animal Control features Joel McHale playing a Joel McHale-type character. McHale's Frank is a disillusioned Senior Animal Control Officer who is paired with a fresh-eyed, optimistic newbie. The actor channels the same pent-up angst and emotional constipation into his character as he did to portray Jeff Winger in Community, and...
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I wrote about Copenhagen Cowboy in this space not too long ago, a series that dazzled me and sent me all the way down the Nicolas Winding Refn rabbit hole. During Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightfall, the making-of documentary that appears on Netflix, NWR talked about how his current series was a companion piece, of sorts, to his Pusher trilogy, all of...
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One of my favorite TV genres is Firefighter Drama; if you make a firefighter drama, odds are I'll be tuning in, but I look forward to new episodes of 9-1-1: Lone Star the most. The Austin 126 Firehouse family is back for a fourth season, and it's already promising next-level emergencies, crazy 9-1-1 calls, amped up drama, and more of the...
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