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Liz Shannon Miller
lizshannonmiller
Liz Shannon Miller is a L.A.-based writer who recently spent five years at Indiewire. Her work has also been published by the New York Times, Vulture, Variety, THR, the Verge, and Thought Catalog.
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We’re close to the end of this narrative, but Dispatches From Elsewhere still wants to throw in some more twists.…
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Why would someone want to make a game like the one we see in Dispatches From Elsewhere? Especially a game that made…
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It’s the end of the game of Dispatches From Elsewhere—theoretically. Certainly the public-facing event has been…
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It’s an episode called “Everyone,” which means Dispatches From Elsewhere aims to bring together the gang, despite…
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One of the struggles in covering Dispatches From Elsewhere has been deciding how much focus to put on the game being…
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One of the most interesting aspects of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s contemporary interpretation of Sherlock was…
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As Russell Watson sings in the worst Star Trek theme song ever, “it’s been a long road, getting from there to here.”…
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The third episode of Dispatches From Elsewhere should come with a warning label: “Still emotionally destroyed by the…
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While debates might rage about whether binge releases of TV seasons are ultimately inferior viewing experiences to…
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Not sure exactly what it is — the addition of a character who hates Judd as much as he deserves to be hated, the…
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Any TV pilot takes on no shortage of challenges, especially one committed to creating a unique narrative populated…
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This week, Avenue 5 really embraced its existence as a very, very slow-motion space-set disaster tale — so…
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No one on the good ship Avenue 5 seems to be very good at what they’re supposed to do, which is not necessarily good…
Manny Jacinto and William Jackson Harper on the (after)life lessons they’ll take from The Good Place
As far as modern-day TV success stories go, it’s hard not to be stunned by how The Good Place ascended from being…
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RuPaul Charles, the man who helped transform drag from an underground movement into a pop culture phenomenon, is…
Alex Trebek hasn’t decided what he’ll say at the end of his last episode of Jeopardy, and doesn’t know when it will…
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It’s been a while since I read the Bible, but I’m pretty sure there’s a proverb about how “When God takes away a…
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“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps…
[Note: This article discusses the events of The Mandalorian’s fourth episode, “Sanctuary,” and Watchmen’s sixth…