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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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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‘Lovecraft Country’: You put a spell on me
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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‘Rome’: ‘This is where we die.’
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.
‘Lovecraft Country’: Star trek
HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” (Sunday at 9 p.m.) shifts time zones, shifts dimensions, shifts realities in its most mind-altering episode yet.
Mark Perigard 