Reviews
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tv The Boys connects America’s racist history and present with “Nothing Like It In The World” By Roxana Hadadi September 11, 2020 | 9:00pm
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tv Raised By Wolves asks what a robot girl wants without offering any interesting answers By Arielle Bernstein September 11, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv In Raised By Wolves, empathy is a problem and a potential vehicle for change By Arielle Bernstein September 10, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film A therapist unravels in the deceptive Cannes favorite Sibyl By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 9, 2020 | 5:00pm
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tv Hulu’s Woke takes a sleepy approach to race in America By Shannon Miller September 9, 2020 | 4:00pm
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film Wil Wheaton is a deadly friend in the ’80s techno-thriller throwback Rent-A-Pal By Danette Chavez September 9, 2020 | 3:00pm
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tv The Comey Rule fuses Trump the cartoon with Trump the man, because there’s no difference By Alex McLevy September 9, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film The alarming documentary All In offers a possible preview of November’s election By Noel Murray September 8, 2020 | 8:00pm
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tv Netflix’s ghostly musical series Julie And The Phantoms hits some charming tween high notes By Caroline Siede September 8, 2020 | 7:00am
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tv Lovecraft Country inspects America’s “History Of Violence” in another great episode By Joelle Monique September 7, 2020 | 2:00am
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tv Bleakness makes “Over The Hill With The Swords Of A Thousand Men” one of The Boys’ best By Roxana Hadadi September 5, 2020 | 6:00pm
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tv The Boys considers questions of fatherhood and family in “Proper Preparation And Planning” By Roxana Hadadi September 5, 2020 | 5:00pm
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tv Raised By Wolves explores the stories we tell each other and ourselves By Arielle Bernstein September 5, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv Tonal imbalances and missed signals bog down RuPaul’s Drag Race: Vegas Revue By Kate Kulzick September 5, 2020 | 1:00am
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film The internet’s most infamous frog gets a documentary redemption in Feels Good Man By Katie Rife September 4, 2020 | 8:00pm
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tv Peacock’s Noughts + Crosses is a flawed race-reversal narrative By Nadra Kareem Nittle September 4, 2020 | 6:00pm
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film The Broken Hearts Gallery tries to find catharsis in heartbreak By Caroline Siede September 4, 2020 | 4:00pm
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tv HBO Max’s Raised By Wolves asks big questions about identity in its second episode By Arielle Bernstein September 4, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv The cast of Coastal Elites mostly makes Trump-bashing worth getting worked up over By Dennis Perkins September 4, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv The Boys returns with new villains and the same satisfyingly sneering disdain By Roxana Hadadi September 4, 2020 | 12:00pm
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film Mulan improves Disney’s live-action remake record but not by enough By Beatrice Loayza September 3, 2020 | 4:00pm
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tv In the Raised By Wolves premiere, Mother is optimistic—and so are we By Arielle Bernstein September 3, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv A.P. Bio seems unsure of what to do with its Peacock resurrection By William Hughes September 2, 2020 | 3:30pm
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tv Hilary Swank fails to launch in Netflix’s otherwise stellar Away By Stephen Robinson September 1, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film A clunky twist dilutes the power of Janelle Monáe thriller Antebellum By Anya Stanley August 31, 2020 | 7:20pm
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film Christopher Nolan’s sleek time-travel thriller Tenet is more confusing than exciting By A.A. Dowd August 31, 2020 | 5:00pm
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tv A “Holy Ghost” finds salvation in Lovecraft Country By Joelle Monique August 31, 2020 | 3:19am
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tv A strong The Owl House finale nevertheless exposes flaws that no magic can cover up By Kevin Johnson August 30, 2020 | 2:00am
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tv RuPaul’s Drag Race: Vegas Revue captures the stress and exhilaration of “Opening Night” By Kate Kulzick August 29, 2020 | 1:00am
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film I’m Thinking Of Ending Things may be Charlie Kaufman’s strangest plunge into the life of the mind By A.A. Dowd August 28, 2020 | 4:45pm
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tv “Spoiler Alert”: Lucifer ends the first half of season five with its greatest reveal yet By LaToya Ferguson August 28, 2020 | 1:00pm
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music With Smile, Katy Perry is desperately trying to have fun again By Alex McLevy August 28, 2020 | 4:00am
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film Bill & Ted Face The Music in a sequel that’s neither excellent nor completely bogus By Katie Rife August 27, 2020 | 11:30pm
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tv In its penultimate episode, Lucifer gets “Our Mojo” back By LaToya Ferguson August 27, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv Lucifer’s weak “BlueBallz” almost threaten to ruin another girls’ (and guys') night By LaToya Ferguson August 26, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film Purge parody The Binge is about as much fun as a hangover By Jesse Hassenger August 26, 2020 | 7:00am
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film Armando Iannucci can’t fast-talk his way through The Personal History Of David Copperfield By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 25, 2020 | 9:00pm
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film Class Action Park memorializes the raddest, deadliest theme park in America By Charles Bramesco August 25, 2020 | 6:00pm
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tv Long-suffering Candace finally gets the spotlight in Disney+’s Phineas And Ferb movie By Gwen Ihnat August 25, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv With “Detective Amenadiel” on the case, Lucifer finally answers some lingering questions By LaToya Ferguson August 25, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv I May Destroy You refuses to be defined in its incredible season finale By Ashley Ray-Harris August 25, 2020 | 2:55am
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film Xavier Dolan finally says goodbye to youth in the wistful Matthias & Maxime By Jason Shawhan August 24, 2020 | 5:25pm
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tv The Boys are back, badass, and even better in a dark and timely season 2 By Alex McLevy August 24, 2020 | 4:00pm
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tv In the exceptional “It Never Ends Well For The Chicken,” it’s storytime at Lucifer’s penthouse By LaToya Ferguson August 24, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv On Lovecraft Country, “Whitey’s On The Moon” and we’re in love By Joelle Monique August 24, 2020 | 2:00am
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tv In “¡Diablo!,” Lucifer yearns for meta goodness By LaToya Ferguson August 23, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv On Lucifer, sibling rivalry takes on a new, fearful form By LaToya Ferguson August 22, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv The queens channel their inner Housewives as RuPaul’s Drag Race: Vegas Revue hits the strip By Kate Kulzick August 22, 2020 | 12:53am
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music Bright Eyes brings the drama on the sad, lovely Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was By Randall Colburn August 21, 2020 | 4:00pm
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tv Evil has never been so banal as in The Vow, HBO’s docuseries on the NXIVM cult By Katie Rife August 21, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv In the Lucifer premiere, a returning “Really Sad Devil Guy” begs the question: “Whose Hell is this anyway?” By LaToya Ferguson August 21, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film Train To Busan sequel Peninsula is all zombie spectacle, no heart By Shannon Miller August 19, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv Netflix’s animated sitcom Hoops has potential but suffers from tunnel vision By Saloni Gajjar August 19, 2020 | 7:00am
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film Like its visionary hero, the quirky biopic Tesla is a noble failure By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 18, 2020 | 8:00pm
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film In Boys State, politics is kids’ stuff By Erik Adams August 18, 2020 | 4:30pm
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film Russell Crowe is Unhinged in a trashy road-rage thriller peeling into theaters this week By A.A. Dowd August 18, 2020 | 3:20pm
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tv I May Destroy You's penultimate episode shows us the truth By Ashley Ray-Harris August 18, 2020 | 5:20am
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tv Lovecraft Country is better than an allegory—it’s fan fiction By Joelle Monique August 17, 2020 | 2:00am
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film Ugly revelations complicate the Ren & Stimpy story retold by Happy Happy Joy Joy By A.A. Dowd August 14, 2020 | 10:35pm
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tv A charming cast fleshes out the thin premise of Teenage Bounty Hunters By Gwen Ihnat August 14, 2020 | 8:52pm
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film Forgettability is the superpower of Netflix's new Jamie Foxx vehicle Project Power By Katie Rife August 14, 2020 | 1:25am
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tv Book 3 is Infinity Train’s best, most challenging season yet By William Hughes August 13, 2020 | 11:00am
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tv Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. ends with massive spectacle and a bittersweet goodbye By Alex McLevy August 13, 2020 | 3:00am
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tv Netflix’s High Score can’t settle on which history of video games it wants to tell By Sam Barsanti August 12, 2020 | 7:00am
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tv I May Destroy You introduces Arabella's family in a moving episode By Ashley Ray-Harris August 11, 2020 | 4:55am
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tv Stargirl’s finale closes some doors and opens even more windows By Caroline Siede August 10, 2020 | 5:00pm
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tv Jason Sudeikis refines his comic persona on the new comfort-food sitcom Ted Lasso By Jesse Hassenger August 10, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv The Alienist: Angel Of Darkness serves a one-two punch finale of death and satisfaction By Ani Bundel August 10, 2020 | 3:05am
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tv Perry Mason and the case of the intentionally ambiguous finale By Allison Shoemaker August 10, 2020 | 2:00am
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tv The Umbrella Academy finale goes full X-Men, for better or worse By Caroline Siede August 9, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv The Umbrella Academy processes its past in an uneven penultimate episode By Caroline Siede August 8, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film Iran’s imprisoned girls reflect on their lives and crimes in the heartbreaking Sunless Shadows By A.A. Dowd August 7, 2020 | 9:50pm
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tv Lovecraft Country is a stunning, horrific look at a grotesque legacy By Shannon Miller August 7, 2020 | 8:15pm
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film Gillian Jacobs and Jemaine Clement take a nostalgia trip in the good-natured I Used To Go Here By Katie Rife August 7, 2020 | 8:00pm
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tv Surviving Jeffrey Epstein puts the spotlight on the survivors of his evil By Stephen Robinson August 7, 2020 | 3:00pm
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tv An anticlimactic Umbrella Academy reaches the day of the Kennedy assassination By Caroline Siede August 7, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film Slow-burn chiller La Llorona offers a more intelligent take on the spooky myth By Katie Rife August 6, 2020 | 3:00pm
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tv The Umbrella Academy’s got 90 minutes to save the world By Caroline Siede August 6, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv On Star Trek: Lower Decks, high-concept meets low effort By Zack Handlen August 6, 2020 | 7:00am
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tv Catastrophe strikes the the world (and the timeline) as Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. nears the end By Alex McLevy August 6, 2020 | 3:00am
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tv Hitmen doesn’t pack a hard punch, but it’s still highly entertaining By Laura Bogart August 5, 2020 | 3:00pm
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film Shia LaBeouf is the lone highlight of this lousy crime thriller from the director of Suicide Squad By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 5, 2020 | 1:40pm
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tv The Umbrella Academy confronts its daddy issues in the show’s best episode yet By Caroline Siede August 5, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film Interchangeable sad boys dim the magic of The Secret Garden By Anya Stanley August 5, 2020 | 7:01am
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film The alarming documentary A Thousand Cuts covers attacks on the press in the Philippines By Noel Murray August 4, 2020 | 6:30pm
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film Jodorowsky phones in some New Age poppycock in the useless Psychomagic, A Healing Art By Charles Bramesco August 4, 2020 | 2:20pm
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tv The Umbrella Academy calls a delightful family meeting By Caroline Siede August 4, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv Perry Mason and the case of the terrifying Easter service By Allison Shoemaker August 4, 2020 | 3:54am
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tv Arabella faces her dark side in a thrilling I May Destroy You By Ashley Ray-Harris August 4, 2020 | 2:50am
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film With Howard, Disney+ movingly honors the lyricist who gave the Little Mermaid her voice By Caroline Siede August 3, 2020 | 5:15pm
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tv Two fantastic fights elevate Stargirl’s penultimate episode By Caroline Siede August 3, 2020 | 5:00pm
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film Two Seth Rogens get into An American Pickle, with mixed results By Jesse Hassenger August 3, 2020 | 4:00pm
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tv The Umbrella Academy offers a heist, a reunion, and a daring rescue—but is that enough? By Caroline Siede August 3, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv Netflix’s Immigration Nation is a grueling, maddening, and essential watch By Danette Chavez August 3, 2020 | 6:04am
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tv The Alienist: Angel Of Darkness finds one baby and loses another By Ani Bundel August 3, 2020 | 3:05am
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tv The Umbrella Academy stages a sit-in as the season barrels forward By Caroline Siede August 2, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv The Umbrella Academy restructures The Commission By Caroline Siede August 1, 2020 | 1:00pm
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music Beyoncé’s Black Is King is an unfettered celebration of Blackness By Shannon Miller July 31, 2020 | 7:00pm
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tv In its season two premiere, The Umbrella Academy reinvents itself for the better By Caroline Siede July 31, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film Fear is contagious in the eerily timely psychological thriller She Dies Tomorrow By Katie Rife July 30, 2020 | 1:00pm
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tv Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. confronts its past as the future starts to collapse By Alex McLevy July 30, 2020 | 3:00am
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film Galvanizing but ideologically narrow, The Fight is preaching to the choir By Roxana Hadadi July 29, 2020 | 7:45pm
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film The engrossing puzzle-box thriller A Girl Missing loses sight of its pieces By Beatrice Loayza July 29, 2020 | 3:00pm
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tv The Go-Go’s documentary reveals the dark side of the band’s sunny pop By Gwen Ihnat July 29, 2020 | 1:00pm
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film Summerland is as pretty but one-dimensional as a postcard By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 28, 2020 | 7:50pm
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tv I May Destroy You takes Arabella back to Italy By Ashley Ray-Harris July 28, 2020 | 1:30am
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tv Stargirl finally digs into the truth about Courtney’s dad By Caroline Siede July 27, 2020 | 5:00pm
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tv Disney actually made a good Muppet show—yaaaaaaaay! By Erik Adams July 27, 2020 | 4:00pm