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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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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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.
After last week’s trippy cosmic episode, HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” (Sunday at 9 p.m.) returns with an installment grounded in the aftermath of an unspeakably evil, true moment in American history.
And it serves as a wrenching backdrop for a pivotal chapter that finds our heroes making deals with a devil to protect one another.
What we won’t do for love.
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Mark Perigard 