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Chris Pratt in Amazon’s ‘The Terminal List’: TV Review
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HBO’s ‘Westworld’ Season 4: TV Review
After two years away, it's back to the robotic future for Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Aaron Paul and the rest of the 'Westworld' cast.
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TV
How FX/Hulu Cooked Up ‘The Bear’; Plus the Best TV of 2022 (So Far)
During this week’s supersized ‘TV’s Top 5’ podcast, hosts Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg are joined by THR’s Angie Han as well as ‘The Bear’ co-showrunner Joanna Calo.
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Movie Reviews
Paramount+’s ‘Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe’: Film Review
The fire-loving, TV-obsessed juvenile delinquents face the 21st century in this feature-length opus.
‘Sophia’: Film Review | Tribeca 2022
Jon Kasbe and Crystal Moselle's documentary, heading to Showtime later this year, looks at inventor David Hanson and his attempts to bring artificial intelligence to one rubbery robot.
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AMC’s ‘Dark Winds’: TV Review
Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon star as Tony Hillerman's Navajo police partners in this 1970s-set drama, directed by Chris Eyre and featuring Robert Redford and George R. R. Martin among producers.
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‘Queer as Folk’: How the Pulse Survivors Helped Shape the Peacock Series
Welcome to the 172nd episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or […]
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‘Butterfly in the Sky’: Film Review | Tribeca 2022
LeVar Burton and his PBS favorite 'Reading Rainbow' get the documentary retrospective treatment courtesy of directors Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb.
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Jeff Bridges in FX’s ‘The Old Man’: TV Review
Bridges plays a former intelligence operative forced out of hiding when a government agent (John Lithgow) pursues him in a series adaptation of Thomas Perry's novel.
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‘P-Valley’ Creator Katori Hall on Season 2 of the Starz Stripper Drama
Welcome to the 172nd episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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Starz’s ‘P-Valley’ Season 2: TV Review
Katori Hall's Mississippi Delta strip club drama returns with a second season set in 2020 amid the COVID pandemic and the summer of racial injustice protests.
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Ben Whishaw in AMC+’s ‘This Is Going to Hurt’: TV Review
The actor plays an overworked London OBGYN doctor battling bureaucracy and his inner demons in AMC+ and Sundance Now's adaptation of creator Adam Kay's memoir.
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‘TV’s Top 5’: The Latest on J.J. Abrams, ‘Survivor’ and ‘Stranger Things’
Welcome to the 171st episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, […]
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Hulu’s ‘Shoresy’: TV Review
Jared Keeso's hockey-centric spinoff from 'Letterkenny' arrives on Hulu with Keeso's previously faceless Shoresy at the center of an underdog comedy that strongly resembles 'Slap Shot.'
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‘Better Call Saul’ Writer-Director on the Midseason Finale’s Shocking End
Longtime 'Better Call Saul' and 'Breaking Bad' writer-director-producer Thomas Schnauz spoke about the shocking twist at the end of the 'Saul' season six midseason finale, 'Plan and Execution.'
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Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4: TV Review
The Emmy-winning homage to early Steven Spielberg and Stephen King returns with seven overstuffed episodes of monsters, mayhem, scientific exploration and coming-of-age comedy.
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