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2017
May
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Gotham has returned with a gloomy darkness indeed: Ed Nygma is now costumed in green and demanding to be called The Riddler. The still-future Penguin, in hiding and nursed from his near-fatal gunshot wound by the future Poison Ivy, is seen mostly in hallucinations as a figment of the Riddler’s imagination. And young Bruce Wayne’s doppleganger is moving in to take over his life – again – this time as a pawn put in play by the sinister Court of Owls. Owls, bats… the
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
1
 
 
Last week, Chris Blue made it into the Top 11, barely, by the end of the competition and elimination process. This week, the singers must sing tonight, and survive elimination again tomorrow, if they’re to make it to this year’s Top 10.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
1
 
 
It looks as though Jimmy will be going to court to try and preserve his right to be able to practice law – or, if not going to court, going back to brother Chuck to try to work out a deal. And either way, he has to call on Mike for help, while Mike, for his part, is getting deeper into the world of Gus Fring and the deadly Salamancas family.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
1
 
 
This new HBO documentary probes the opioid epidemic, and how the widespread practice of prescribing opioids to hospital patients in pain can lead to an addiction to heroin. All I know from personal experience is, when I was hospitalized for a month last summer, the only thing that got me through that experience was an opioid – and that, though I was aggressive about weaning myself from pain medication as soon as possible, I truly understood drug addiction for the first time. When I needed
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
1
 
 
The White House press corps were the main story last Saturday night, with the WHCA annual dinner going on with the President not in attendance for the first time since the ‘80s.  Full Frontal host Samantha Bee jumped in, hosting her own Not the White House Correspondents Dinner, and Allison Janney reprised her role as press secretary C.J. Cregg from The West Wing, but this time presiding over an obviously different group of alt-press reporters...