There are a lot of adjectives used to describe HBO’s “Rome,” but one that rarely comes up is: funny.
And yet the latest episode in our “Rome” rewatch can best be thought of as a bedroom farce B.C.
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Fox’s ‘Next’ is a timely tale of digital menace
Your smart device is plotting to kill you.
That’s one deliciously twisted takeaway from Fox’s “NEXT” (debuting tonight at 9), which imagines an artificial intelligence so powerful, it threatens every person on the planet.
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We need to talk about the last four minutes of last night’s ‘Lovecraft Country’
For a series that traffics in shocks, HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” last night topped itself with a stunner of a climax.
Warning! If you haven’t watched it, watch it NOW! We’re digging up the scary monsters here!
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Jim Carrey debuts as Joe Biden on a sleepy ‘Saturday Night Live’
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” returned for its 46th season with comedian Jim Carrey playing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Alec Baldwin returning as President Donald Trump, and a tone that suggested the rush of recent events were even too much for the writers to process.
Those events included that debacle of a presidential debate, Trump’s failure to denounce white supremacy, and Trump being diagnosed with the coronavirus.
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Patrick Stewart and Mark Hamill filmed commercials together, and now the multiverse is ending
Worlds will live! Worlds will die! And nothing will be the same!
Sorry for going a little “Crisis on Infinite Earths” with you there, but we face a real situation here.
Mark Perigard 