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Jim Carrey and Maya Rudolph on "Saturday Night Live" (Photo: NBC)

SNL welcomes a new day with an uneven show

On November 8, 2020 By Mark PerigardIn Reviews

Just hours after Joe Biden was declared the victor in the most hotly contested presidential race in modern memory, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” returned with a show that perhaps captured the mood of the country: celebratory but still disbelieving.

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The happy couple on ABC's "The Bachelorette."

‘The Bachelorette’ leaves us with deep thoughts. Make it stop!

On November 6, 2020 By Mark PerigardIn Recaps

Clare Crowley finally found her daddy – or her daddy proxy – on ABC’s “The Bachelorette.”

So why is Tayshia Adams stuck with her sloppy seconds?

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Nicole Kidman in 'The Undoing' (Photo: HBO)

In ‘The Undoing,’ trust can be deadly

On November 5, 2020 By Mark PerigardIn Previews

Can you ever trust someone again after they have betrayed you?

In HBO’s “The Undoing,” Grace (Nicole Kidman) struggles to regain her emotional balance after her husband Jonathan (Hugh Grant) makes a surprise return.

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Indira Varma in "Rome" (Photo: HBO)

‘Rome’: Thud!

On November 4, 2020February 24, 2025 By Mark PerigardIn Reviews

In “Rome’s” epic season one finale, one character makes an anticipated exit, while another quite unexpectedly suffers a brutal fall from fortune.

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At War with a Book

On October 31, 2020June 9, 2022 By Mark PerigardIn Books2 Comments
Hilary Mantel's "The Mirror & The Light"
Hilary Mantel’s “The Mirror & The Light”

The figure mocks me.

53.

53 percent.

The eReader reports I have read 53 percent of Hilary Mantel’s “The Mirror & The Light.”

That translates to a little more than half, about 415 pages of a 784-page book.

The problem: I started reading this tome on March 10, the day it was released.

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