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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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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One of our champions loses his head on this week’s “Rome,” and we must say goodbye – for the first, but not for the last time – to a series regular.
Oh, and the fate of the Roman Republic is decided, thousands die, blah, blah, just the usual from the most unusual HBO drama.
Who gets to be an American? And how much blood must be spilled?
That’s the beating, bleeding heart of the new season of FX’s “Fargo” (Sundays at 9 p.m.). Series creator, writer and director Noah Hawley delivers an extended opener that has one significant thing in common with every other season of “Fargo.”
It is instantly engrossing.
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Pillow talk alters the course of an empire.
Just another gripping, unexpected hour from television’s greatest historical drama.
Mark Perigard 