A review of this week’s Winning Time, “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” coming up just as soon as I’m the guy without the catheter for once… Winning Time Season One heads into the home stretch(*) with the Lakers on the verge of the playoffs, and playing a style and …
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A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Bad Choice Road,” coming up just as soon as I leave the Yankees to play amateur ring toss… “Oh, Jesus, what have I got myself involved with here?” —Jimmy So, do we need to start referring to Kim Wexler as The One …
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A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “Dillman,” coming up just as soon as my resume rhymes on accident… Nine-Nine has improbably avoided the ravages of sitcom middle-age for several years now, at times being even funnier and more satisfying than when the characters and running gags were new. This …
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A review of “Pimemento,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I ask if you do the Face/Off surgery here… Jason Mantzoukas is among the funniest human beings alive, thus it’s not surprising that he’s one of the select company of actors to appear on all three …
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The Good Place is back for its final batch of episodes! A review of this week’s installment, “You’ve Changed, Man,” coming up just as soon as I fall into a swamp trying to spray the Taco Bell logo on a snapping turtle… There is no answer. But Raylan Givens is …
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A review of this week’s The Deuce, “Normal Is a Lie,” coming up just as soon as I have my own bathroom… “I really don’t give a shit what people say or what they think,” Candy tells Hank early in “Normal Is a Lie. “There’s too many people who are …
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Even though the Pierce deal fell apart and the company is still facing an ostensibly serious takeover bid, the Roys still like to throw a party. “Return,” this week’s episode of Succession, opens with Kendall FaceTiming his new fling and sometime rival Naomi Pierce from the bathroom, and she needs …
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A review of “Cinco de Mayo,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I know the associate principal cellist in the New York Philharmonic… I was once in the Parks and Rec writers room to watch the staff pitch ideas for their fourth season premiere. Several writers, …
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A review of “Show Me The Magic,” this week’s Better Things, coming up just as soon as I eat my grandfather… Midway through “Show Me the Magic,” Sam asks David Miller to pose as a medium to make the girls feel better about Duke‘s belief that Murray‘s ghost lives in …
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