In last week’s episode, Zoey revealed her hidden power, the ability to watch and hear people sing their inner thoughts in songs no one else can witness, to one of her closest friends. “I am a mutant,” she explained. “I am The X-Men meets The Voice.” And tonight, for the first time, Zoey herself takes center stage for the entire episode, singing her own inner thoughts. This is her song, and this one’s for you.

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THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode was spent with Michonne, and was fairly harrowing. We learned a lot about her, and also learned that her long-missing loved one, Rick Grimes, the former protagonist of this apocalyptic adventure, may still be alive.

2020

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WESTWORLD By David Bianculli

The Season 3 premiere of Westworld took place in the “real world” outside the disastrously out-of-control theme park, and focused on a killer female android, Dolores. Last week’s episode, the season’s second installment, went back to the park, introducing a WWII Nazi theme land called Warworld, and focusing on another killer female android, Maeve. But it ended with Maeve (pictured) finding herself in the “real world,” and helplessly controlled by par

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HOMELAND By David Bianculli

This is almost the end – for Homeland, and maybe for Saul and Carrie as well. And frankly, no one in their inner circle, or even their outer one, looks to have a clear path to redemption or happiness right now.

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NEW PBS DOCUMENTARY LOOKS AT CHINA'S FORMER "ONE CHILD" POLICY By Mike Hughes

This isn’t what a filmmaker expects her mother to say at a premiere...

2020

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'TIGER KING' ON NETFLIX: LIONS, TIGERS, MURDER, MAYHEM AND MULLETS. WHAT COULD GO WRONG? By Alex Strachan

"I. Just. Can't. Even." That four-word tweet was what first caught my attention...

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BOOGIE NIGHTS By David Bianculli

Paul Thomas Anderson got a lot of attention, and for good reason, for writing and directing this 1997 period character study, which looked at the changing porn industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s. More than 20 years after this film was released, what is most impressive, in retrospect, is the bravery of the casting, and the performances, with a lot of actors given the opportunity to do great work here – and taking full advantage. Burt Reynolds, as a porn filmmaker with grandiose visi

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THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR By David Bianculli

Another treasure from the vaults of Tom and Dick Smothers. This Season 2 episode is from February 1968, and features the U.S. television debut of a little Australian rock group known as The Bee Gees. They sing their plaintive, slow song “Words” (“It’s only words / and words are all I have / to take your love away”), in a show that also features someone else whose TV debut was courtesy of the Smothers Brothers: Comedian Moms Mabley, making her second Comedy Hour

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD By David Bianculli

Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this 2019 movie about Hollywood at the end of the Sixties. Leonardo DiCaprio plays an actor, Brad Pitt his stunt double, and Margot Robbie plays ill-fated actress Sharon Tate. Pitt steals the show here, especially with a pair of intense showdown scenes in which he acts as singularly as Tarantino writes.

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OZARK By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 3 of Ozark begins with a scene that’s really, really dark, so if you’re seeking pure escapism, look elsewhere. But from the start, this series, starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as a troubled couple who move to the Ozarks and try to deal with the mob, the feds, and the often deadly locals all at once, has been great, dark fun, if there is such a thing. It’s the sort of spiritual successor to FX’s Justified, with a similar cast

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