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2018
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This long-running series, on the other hand, just gets stronger each episode this season. And last week, Carrie and Saul finally shared the screen, as she had to go with him for help with a particularly thorny dilemma —which she was in because of setting up a completely  unauthorized surveillance operation. At this point, motives of almost all the players remain murky. But the central plot, about the mysterious murder of an American general using a rare chemical agent, has so many ech
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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SERIES PREMIERE: Based on the early episodes of this new series — which, like the movie All the Money in the World, is a dramatization of the 1973 kidnapping of the grandson of John Paul Getty — there are two standout characters and performances. One is Donald Sutherland as eccentric oil billionaire Getty, and the other is Brendan Fraser as James Fletcher Chase, Getty’s all-around problem-fixer. (Imagine Fraser as a sort of cowboy Ray Donovan, if Donovan actually enjoyed his jo
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 5 of this clever satire of America’s computer industry and social media culture — and with what’s happening in the real world with Facebook and elsewhere right now, this show’s target seems especially ripe.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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SEASON PREMIERE: The new season begins with this show’s formidable, unforgiving adversaries continuing to maneuver to find ways to hurt one another. The first episodes of this new season are solid ones — and put one character, played by Maggie Siff, not only squarely in the middle, but impressively in control.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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SERIES PREMIERE: Assassins and hit men (or, to be politically correct, hit people) have proven fascinating when put in vehicles making room for dark comedy as well as drama. Cases in point: Grosse Pointe Blank or any of the movie or TV incarnations of Fargo. Starting tonight, Saturday Night Live alumnus Bill Hader joins that trigger-happy club — where trigger-happy, I just realized, in this context has a tasty double meaning. He plays a killer for hire who pursues his next target to a Holl
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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25
 
 
What will John Oliver have to say about yesterday’s global protest movement, especially the awesome and inspiring rally in Washington, D.C., at which the only speakers who weren’t teenagers were younger than teenagers? I don’t have any idea — but I presume it’ll be supportive and contextual, and I can’t wait to hear it.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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Until not so long ago, television was widely considered the place for dramas that weren’t quite prestigious enough for the movies...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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After the exciting Sweet 16 games Thursday and last night, we’ve arrived at the weekend of the Elite Eight, with more lower-seeded teams still competing than, I believe, at any year in tournament history. TBS shows tonight’s games, and CBS gets tomorrow’s — as a lead-in to the Stormy Daniels edition of 60 Minutes. In tonight’s first game at 6 p.m. ET on TBS, South No. 11 seed Loyola-Chicago faces another scrappy Cinderella team, No. 9-seeded Kansas State. And after
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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24
 
 
On the same day the organized outrage from the Florida high school student survivors of last month’s mass shooting is scheduled to culminate in a March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, NBC looks at another national movement, propelled by passionate young people, that set out to change history more than 50 years ago. I just finished covering this in my TV History and Appreciation of the 1960s and 1970s class, and the parallels — and the promise — are amazing.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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Another recent action movie based on a graphic novel, this 2017 spy thriller not only emulates James Bond, but sets itself in the original Bond era of the 1960s. Charlize Theron plays the female equivalent of 007, an undercover MI-6 agent named Lorraine Broughton, whose latest mission takes her to Berlin during the Cold War, where she gets a very chilly reception.