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The Prisoner
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The two scenes are actually nicely written and well acted, but then the studio had to ruin it with music. As if we can't understand the emotion of a scene without being pushed over the edge by sad or joyful or exuberant or disaster strings or other orchestration. So much of music RUINS movies.

"…complete decimation of entire cities"…? I believe that means that entire cities are obliterated by a perfect 10%??? Olivia Munn looks appropriately, as expected, STUNNING!

All the tonal skipping from episode to episode worked better on the old X-Files, when there were so damn many episodes per season. Shifting from mythology/conspiracy, to monster of the week/conspiracy, to monster of the week/comedy is jarring, but still entertaining. Rhys Darby is so damn good I didn't care - he

I really enjoyed this episode other than the fact that poor DD can't really act, and that after all these years GA still hasn't learned to speak above a whisper between clenched teeth. But the rebooted conspiracy feels pretty on point - many things fit neatly into it, though it might have been better had Mulder even

Your review misses a glaring point……So why are we calling this a "comedy?" Adam McKay has taken his comic sensibility and used it as a filter for the high absurdity of what has become banking all over the world. Funny? This is a TRAGEDY, buried in the tears of the clown. Funny at times? Sure. This film is as

So much digital ink for an inkstain of a show.

At last, it seems Noah's Magic Penis doesn't work on all women. His patented technique for 100% mutual orgasm, whether first thing in the morning, a nooner by the dock, or a consensual rape in the woods may not work all the time after all. God Noah is a bore, and the more prone to self-loathing he becomes, the less

I love the turn this show has taken, and it happened only 3 or 4 episodes ago - about the time we witnessed Gretchen crying in the car. The whole show is trying less and achieving so much more, whether from the house of horrors a week ago, to the horrifying grown up hipsters she longs to emulate. If the show hadn't

Rosemary's Baby and It's Alive combined, the sum being lesser than the parts. A poor choice to drive a "character" mad when the actor can't even pull off the normal stuff. Wes Bentley is just a haircut in this season (and why is he still staying in the Horror Hotel?). Death of Liz Taylor's "Dandy" was telegraphed

Ugh. I wouldn't celebrate the rare event where the checkers pieces of this show accidentally become "characters." Don't worry - whatever they set up now will be changed later to conveniently get Murphy/Falchuk out of the corner they painted themselves into. And this show does not "explore" parental, maternal, or

Well, the "hipster honeymoon" seems to be over and now the door has been
opened a crack to reveal what we always hide before we get to know out
Other better. This and the prior episode have done something I didn't
think possible for this show - it made the characters human, made me
interested in and caring about what

Too many words to describe what will be nothing……

Seeso sounds soso. Only reason to watch it is if NBC leaves Hulu, which it won't.

First Amendment, it's a bitch, but love it or leave it. It's a comedy show - some people love and some hate. A year from now it'll be another SNL footnote when we fondly remember the giddy days when once-candidate, never President Trump offended everyone on Earth. Where was the mass outrage whenever Palin was on?

I'm torn. Grand Guignol bleeds in glorious red but the callbacks to prior "inspirations" tend to bore. The rehash of "The Hunger," wonderful as Gaga might someday be, flails and fails next to Bowie/Deneuve/Sarandon — especially Bowie, who nearly owned that movie in the brief 15 minutes he was in it. Same goes for

A+ at least for Schumer's monolgue line about tinder swiping the vagina.

She's not great with sketch comedy; She's excellent, and running nearly unopposed in her choice of subject matter, now for three seasons. It has to be tough do do a sketch show which challenges "the man" (literally) while simultaneously sending up herself. Key & Peele are the only recent sketch comedians who come to

"Sibilance…"

It would be great to see SNL speak to politics WITHOUT impersonations of living people. It gets old, and isn't really what satire, especially polticial, is about.

O'Donoghue, genius and iconoclast, was also a conflicted, lonely little man who wanted acceptance - and he hated us all. It's in most of the great books about the early SNL/Lampoon era.