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Hitmen is not your typical lady assassins show: A music cue in the very first episode announces that our titular…
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Jun 25
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When the first season of Hanna arrived in early 2019, it seemed like creator David Farr was given license to…
Mar 13
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There is a moment in one of the early episodes of Motherland: Fort Salem that beautifully, and frustratingly, hints…
Jan 10
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Anaïs Nin saying, “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to…
Mar 29 2019
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Joe Wright’s Hanna was released in 2011, just preceding the boomlet in all tales Strong Female Protagonist ushered…
Dec 30 2018
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Sartre’s famous phrase, “Hell is other people” may have gone from a staggering insight about the nature of the Self…
Dec 23 2018
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Until this penultimate episode, Escape At Dannemora has distinguished itself as a character-driven drama, more…
Dec 16 2018
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Here, finally, for better and (inevitably) for worse, is the titular escape at Dannemora. Or, more aptly, escapes:…
Dec 9 2018
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“Chapter Four” is roughly the midpoint of Escape At Dannemora, so it makes sense that this episode would focus on…
Dec 2 2018
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One of the pleasures of watching Escape at Dannemora is the way the show connects action (and “Chapter Three” has…
Nov 25 2018
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If “Chapter One” of Escape At Dannemora was about the power and sway of raw desire—how it invigorates and…
Nov 18 2018
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Escape At Dannemora could easily package itself as a stylish, well-pedigreed action tale and still be wildly…
Nov 3 2018
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Even though The Walking Dead has shuffled and slurred and growled a long way from its heyday as must-see Sunday TV,…
Oct 21 2018
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“Warning Signs” accomplished what precious few episodes of The Walking Dead have done since about roughly mid-way…
Oct 14 2018
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In the first scene of “The Bridge,” Rick Grimes rhapsodizes about the brightness of the future with his…
Aug 26 2018
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It’s fitting that Persephone, the goddess most known for her suffering, is finally evoked in the last episode of Shar…
Aug 19 2018
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In “Falling,” Chief Vickery wryly, wistfully, wonders why the women of Wind Gap aren’t content to be ordinary. The…
Aug 12 2018
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Sharp Objects is a dark meditation of a show, long on mood and short on forward action. These six hours have been…
Aug 5 2018
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In her seminal essay, “A Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain,” Leslie Jamison assesses the ways that women are…
Jul 29 2018
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The episode titles for Sharp Objects offer a kind of wry commentary about the surface and subterranean events of the…