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18 May

Breeders: the Season 2 Finale Confronts a Painful Parenting Truth

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Warning: contains spoilers for the Breeders season two finale. Philip Larkin put it memorably, but there’s no need to take his word for it. We all know that characterful noses aren’t the only things carried down the generations. There are also the traits that no parent means to pass on: insecurities and neuroses absorbed in daily doses from age zero to left-home, that leach out involuntarily to our own kids when the time comes. For Martin Freeman’s character Paul in FX/Sky One comedy Breeders, it’s his anger and anxiety, inherited by son Luke (Alex Eastwood), and threatening to break their relationship.  The Breeders…
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22 Mar

Mario Dies: The Character’s Most Painful Deaths Ever

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Fans everywhere are declaring March 31st to be the day that “Mario Dies” since that’s the day when Nintendo will inexplicably stop selling Super Mario 3D All-Stars, remove Super Mario Bros. 35 from the eShop, Super Mario Game & Watch system, and shut down the original Super Mario Maker‘s servers. It’s a series of controversial decisions made all the stranger by the fact that they’re falling on the same day. While Mario isn’t actually “dying” on that day, let’s not pretend that we haven’t seen Mario die countless times before. From running into that first Goomba to falling off a…
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12 Nov

Netflix Fights Back Against Cancellation Complaints – “It’s Always Painful to Cancel a Show”

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Netflix has stressed that it isn’t canceling more shows than regular network TV does, hinting that the streamer’s hard decisions simply cause more of an uproar, especially online. The comments arrive after a string of big Netflix projects like GLOW, Altered Carbon, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance have been nixed in recent months. Bosses Bela Bajaria and Ted Sarandos defended their cancellation rate at the Paley International Council Summit, saying that Netflix renews around 67% of its series, and that its cancellations were viewed “disproportionately”. “If you look at season twos and more, we…
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