Looking for a refreshing yet familiar, tear-jerking yet hopeful, fun yet serious new show to watch this fall? ABC's long-awaited Bachelor spinoff The Golden Bachelor is finally here, and it doesn't disappoint for a second. The hour-long premiere on Thursday, September 28, showed 72-year-old stud Gerry Turner meet 22 spritely senior women (plus a...
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For seven seasons, Riverdale has been the internet's punching bag. It started as a dark tweak on Archie Comics, became a sensation in Season 2, and then -- purposefully -- went wildly off the rails in Season 3. Since then, the show never looked back: through Gargoyle Kings, bear fights, rocket cult leaders, candy drugs, superpowers, and weirdest...
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The first half of Riverdale's penultimate episode is a sweet wrap-up to the storyline that found the cast sent back to the 1950s and reliving their teen years at Riverdale High. Featuring the welcome return of Principal Weatherbee, some lovely scenes between Betty (Lili Reinhart) and Alice (Mädchen Amick), and a swerve involving Kevin's (Casey...
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On January 7, 2013, an episode titled "Vanderpump Rules" premiered on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and directly after, Vanderpump Rules premiered as its own show. Fans watched Scheana Shay (an employee of Lisa Vanderpump) go from server to reality star, all in one day. The main storyline, if you are unfamiliar with this franchise, is a...
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The new Fox sitcom Animal Control features Joel McHale playing a Joel McHale-type character. McHale's Frank is a disillusioned Senior Animal Control Officer who is paired with a fresh-eyed, optimistic newbie. The actor channels the same pent-up angst and emotional constipation into his character as he did to portray Jeff Winger in Community, and...
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Bravo's long-running reality series Vanderpump Rules seems to have undergone a reset for Season 10. With the divorce of Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz, the breakup of formerly sober James Kennedy and Raquel Leviss, and the continuous struggles of single mom Lala Kent, our favorite former SUR-vers are entering a new era of adulthood, a step that...
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I wrote about Copenhagen Cowboy in this space not too long ago, a series that dazzled me and sent me all the way down the Nicolas Winding Refn rabbit hole. During Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightfall, the making-of documentary that appears on Netflix, NWR talked about how his current series was a companion piece, of sorts, to his Pusher trilogy, all of...
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