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06 Sep

How the Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Finale Pulled off a Huge Avalance Moment

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The following contains Legends of Tomorrow spoilers Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 15 Legends of Tomorrow season 6 has certainly been a mixed bag. The overarching framework of displaced aliens spread through time never really clicked in the same way that many of the series’ other ridiculous setups did. (I mean, c’mon, they made magical creatures work last year, what the heck happened?)  The problems were multiple: Sara was separated from the group for half of the season, the show struggled to really integrate new character Spooner into the team until the season’s final pair of episodes, and entirely…

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31 Aug

DC FanDome 2021 Will Deliver a Historic Batman Moment

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If you’re tired of Batman, DC FanDome 2021 will have plenty to share about all the other superhero projects in the pipeline at Warner Bros. and DC Comics, including the upcoming Black Adam and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom movies. But if you’re like me and can’t get enough of the Dark Knight, then you should be doubly excited for this year’s virtual DC showcase, which will feature a series of projects with an unprecedented amount of live-action Batmen. I count four Bruces at this year’s FanDome, and that’s without even factoring in the upcoming Batman: Caped Crusader animated series.…

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02 Jun

Bo Burnham: Inside’s Moment of Breathtaking Empathy

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This article contains spoilers for Bo Burnham: Inside. Back in the year 2000, writer Dave Eggers struggled to find the right title for his first memoir. What collection of words could possibly communicate the emotional enormity of losing both of one’s parents to cancer and then having to perform as a sudden surrogate to one’s younger brother? Eggers eventually stumbled upon the appropriately melodramatic moniker. The name he chose, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, was equal parts sarcastic and sincere. It also felt grandiose enough to describe Eggers’ own slice of the confusing, oft exhilarating human experience.  Now, some…

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02 Jun

Community: The Moment Abed Became the Main Character

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There’s no doubt that Danny Pudi’s character Abed was a favorite of Community fans everywhere. Despite a lack of social skills explained through an unspoken understanding that the character was on the autism spectrum, Abed’s charm sprung from his ability to relate reality to pop culture narratives that were easier for him to comprehend. However, there was a specific moment in season one that made it clear that his penchant for meta-referencing his fictional existence made him the de facto POV of the show, not just the sidekick to Joel McHale’s character Jeff. It’s worth noting that Community creator Dan…

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19 Apr

Mare of Easttown’s Saddest Moment Isn’t Even the Murder

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This article contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown episode 1. There’s a dead body at the end of Mare of Easttown’s first episode. But you already knew that.  Even if you’ve not seen episode 1, “Miss Lady Hawk Herself”, you just intrinsically know that the HBO series starring Kate Winslet as an Eastern Pennsylvanian detective features a murder. That’s because crime dramas on television have developed a consistent, grim rhythm. From Broadchurch to True Detective to beyond, the first episode of any given crime drama will feature the discovery of a dead body.  The body in question will have belonged…

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19 Apr

Fear the Walking Dead: Big Virginia Moment Explained

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This Fear the Walking Dead article contains spoilers. The twisting and turning second half of Fear the Walking Dead season 6 continues with “Things Left to Do,” which says goodbye to yet another main cast member, although few viewers will likely mourn her. Virginia, one of the series’ most uniquely deranged big bads, has breathed her final breath at the hands of June, whose husband, John Dorie, was murdered by Dakota (Virginia’s daughter, not sister) last week. Needless to say, “Things Left to Do” is the most consequential episode of the season thus far, and Virginia’s death will no doubt…

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08 Apr

Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Returns with Big Morgan Moment

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This Fear the Walking Dead article contains spoilers. Fear the Walking Dead season 6 has been one of the darkest seasons of the show so far. Our heroes have been separated, some left for dead while others were forced to join Virginia and her cruel group of Pioneers who want all the survivors they meet to fall in line or die. When Morgan stood up to Virginia in season 5, it ended very badly for him. Not only was his group broken but so was his spirit. But season 6 has been all about putting those pieces back together for…

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07 Apr

The Flash: Why Chester’s Moment in the Spotlight Matters

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This THE FLASH article contains spoilers for Season 7, Episode 6 Actor Brandon McKnight was promoted to a series regular for The Flash Season 7 last year and some fans (read: cough yours truly) may have wondered whether there was space for Chester P. Runk on a series that often struggles to give its existing cast of characters meaningful things to do. After all, Carlos Valdes’ Cisco was absent for the bulk of Season 6, Danielle Panabaker’s Caitlin took a near-permanent backseat to her Frost alter-ego that the series is only just now correcting, and though we all love Jesse L. Martin,…

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26 Mar

Senior Moment

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After drag racing his vintage convertible around Palm Springs, a retired NASA test pilot (William Shatner) loses his license. Forced to take public transportation, he meets Caroline (Jean Smart) and learns to navigate love and life again.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Mar 26, 2021

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12 Mar

The Training Day Moment That Won Denzel Washington an Oscar

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In Training Day, Denzel Washington’s undercover detective Alonzo Harris is playing the long game, and edging both sides against the middle. “This shit’s chess, it ain’t checkers,” he explains to Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), the rookie cop being led down the road to perdition. As another Denzel copper learned in the 1998 Satanic thriller Fallen, the devil often appears in the least likely of guises. For Training Day, Washington plays against type to lay out the temptations of easy money and real, street legal power. Alonzo may not have nabbed Jake’s soul with his opening gambit, but he walked away…

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28 Jan

Will Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Finally Give Us the Morgan Moment We’ve Been Waiting For?

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Fear the Walking Dead finally returns on April 11, which means we might finally get some closure on some of the biggest loose ends from the first half of season 6, including just how Morgan plans to get his people out of Virginia’s clutches. So far the season has brought some radical changes to Morgan’s character — an altruistic leader left for dead who is transformed into an ax brandishing hunter looking for revenge. Morgan has often turned to violence during moments of distress — in this case, he let his people down and they’re now all suffering under Virginia’s…

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17 Dec

How The Mandalorian Season 2 Finale Could Give Us the Ezra Bridger Moment We’ve Been Waiting For

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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. The Mandalorian season 2 finale is poised to be the series’ biggest episode yet. Mando and the cruel Moff Gideon are set up for a rematch, and this time, the stakes are higher than ever before, with little Grogu’s life hanging in the balance. Fortunately, Mando won’t be taking on the Empire on his own. He’ll have help from Boba Fett, Fennec Shand, and Cara Dune, but is that enough? Gideon not only commands a brigade of stormtroopers but also has the fearsome dark troopers at his disposal as well as the…

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27 Oct

Borat 2: The Most Embarrassing Moment for Mike Pence at CPAC

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I admit I came late to the Borat 2 party. The film has been available on Amazon Prime Video since Friday, which may as well be five months ago in the realm of streaming discourse. Nevertheless, I sat down Monday evening to Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan expecting nothing would surprise me. I knew about, and had watched, the clip of Rudy Giuliani disgracing himself, and heard about Maria Bakalova surprising audiences as Borat’s daughter. I even knew Borat went to CPAC to bedevil Vice President Mike…

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