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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Homeland”

HOMELAND: Sunday 9PM on Showtime We’ve recently acquired the concept of “legacy media,” referring to things like newspapers that are actually printed on pieces of paper–still potentially useful,...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Miss Americana,” “Ironbark” & “Scare Me”

MISS AMERICANA (Netflix – January 31): There are certainly areas of Taylor Swift’s life that are carefully elided in MISS AMERICANA (her actor boyfriend’s face and name are absent, for example, and th...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Americans”

FX’s THE AMERICANS has been, by a substantial margin, the best new show of this season. And if tonight’s season finale was slightly less ambitious than we might have hoped in terms of delivering the shockin...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Hunted”

For reasons sociologists can ponder, we happen to be at a great moment for spy stories. Last year’s remake of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the superb Homeland (barring last week’s speed-bump episode) and t...

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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “The Assets”

THE ASSETS: Thursday 10PM on ABC – Change the Channel It’s easy enough to see why ABC would like to be in the spy-TV business. Homeland, whatever its flaws, is a major hit, and The Americans, while not as...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Killing Eve”

KILLING EVE: Sunday 8PM on AMC/BBCAmerica AMC very much wants KILLING EVE to be its next big thing. The critical and awards-season darling spent its first season on the network’s subsidiary BBCAmerica service, ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Allegiance”

ALLEGIANCE: Thursday 10PM on NBC Previously… on ALLEGIANCE: Alex O’Connor (Gavin Stenhouse) has an Unforgettable-level memory–if also a semi-Asperbergian inability to handle social intercourse–...

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Covert Affairs”

The problem with having your main character “go dark” is that she actually has to get somewhere. In the Season 4 finale of COVERT AFFAIRS, Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) finally seemed to cross a line by coldb...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Homeland”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Miss Americana,” “Ironbark” & “Scare Me”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Americans”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Hunted”

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “The Assets”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Killing Eve”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Allegiance”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Covert Affairs”

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