"Television is a goddamned amusement park."
There are two kinds of people that watched NBC’s presentation of Peter Pan Live! on Thursday night: people that actually love musicals and people who were hoping for a train wreck. Live theater is always risky, so some may have tuned in to see if anything insanely wrong happened. Haters of last year’s Sound of …
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Do you hear that? That’s the sound of me tooting my own horn. As a person who is rarely right about mysteries, I have to congratulate myself on a mid-episode prediction for the winter finale of the first season of How to Get Away with Murder. We finally found out who killed Viola Davis’ nasty, …
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Everyone’s present on How to Get Away with Murder for the penultimate episode of the first half of the season. Those dramatic promos (which deserve Outstanding Performance by a Voiceover Artist Who Just Can’t Even) promises us that we won’t want to miss next week’s installment, so this hour was devoted to making sure everyone …
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A whole heck of a lot happens in this week’s How to Get Away with Murder. Legal jargon gets thrown around like pairs of Andrew Christian underwear in Connor’s apartment and grandstanding mounts in the courtroom. There’s yelling, yelling, and more yelling, and, by the end of the episode, we are left wondering what Annalise …
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If you are a fan of Matt McGorry’s prison guard John Bennett from Orange is the New Black, you will appreciate the latest episode of How to Get Away with Murder. On Black, McGorry is earnest and sweet, but his Asher Millstone is as douchey as they come. You might feel a bit bad for …
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Can someone remind me of the line that ended last week’s episode of How to Get Away with Murder? Oh, that’s right. “What’s your penis doing on a dead girl’s phone” is the line that rocked ABC’s Thursday night TGIT lineup, and it’s just the kind of line to set up the emotional fight between …
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ABC promised that the final sentence on this week’s How to Get Away with Murder would be a game changer, and it definitely set social media ablaze with those nine words. Thursday nights are usually full of moments when your jaw hits the floor, but How to Get Away had several gasp-inducing moments. Let’s ask …
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The camera focuses on Michaela’s engagement ring in the opening scene of this week’s How to Get Away with Murder, and it’s fitting since some relationships are at the forefront of this episode. She is making love to her fiancé (hello, 10 pm timeslot!) who is visiting, and she is excited to introduce him to …
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“It just means we all have to start over,” says one of the daughters halfway through the debut season of Amazon’s tender and gentle Transparent, a drama centering on a Los Angeles family who evaluate their lives after their father comes out as a transgendered woman. The ideas of gender, femininity and sex dominate Transparent’s …
There is an image from the premiere episode of American Horror Story: Freak Show that made me physically recoil on my big, comfy couch. A young couple are making out in a field. He leaves her to run to the car, and, out of the bushes, comes a paunchy clown, his garments filthy and a …
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