May 6 2019
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According to Deadline, NBC has given a series order to Sunnyside, the new comedy project co-written by and starring…
Apr 11 2019
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While we’re all still playing the full Aaron Burr when it comes to a film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway…
Feb 8 2018
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Oh how I wish I could say that the final seconds of “Ask Him About Stella” were enough to carry the entire episode.…
Feb 1 2018
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“He’s A Bad Father” unravels plenty of thread for How To Get Away With Murder season four’s murder board, managing…
Jan 18 2018
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You know that feeling when you jolt awake after a nap you didn’t mean to take or a nap that lasted longer than…
Nov 16 2017
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How To Get Away With Murder dedicates its midseason finale to Laurel and company’s ill-devised plan to bring down…
Jul 20 2017
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TV drama royalty Jimmy Smits has decided to grace Shondaland with his Emmy-anointed presence, with Deadline reporting
Apr 11 2017
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When I first heard Bruce Springsteen’s “Jungleland” as a ten-year-old, it sounded gritty. It sounded real. It…
Apr 10 2017
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In film and television, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising” almost always spells trouble. And why…
Apr 9 2017
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When reviewing The Get Down, many critics (myself included) have focused on the show’s criminal element—its…
Apr 8 2017
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Early on in “The Beat Says, This Is The Way,” Marrakech Star’s Roy Asheton insists that, if Mylene wants to be taken…
Apr 7 2017
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When reviewing the front half of The Get Down’s first season, most of my criticisms revolved around the series’…
Jan 11 2017
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One of the first shows Fox is promoting today at the TCA winter conference is 24: Legacy, the first incarnation of…
Oct 12 2016
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Signalling that the show has now well and truly “arrived,” the producers of Brooklyn Nine-Nine have announced that…
Aug 24 2016
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At times, The Get Down has deftly connected people from different backgrounds by showing them go through similar…
Aug 22 2016
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Many of The Get Down’s characters have the opportunity to go down a single path in “You Have Wings, Learn To Fly.”…
Aug 19 2016
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Because it doesn’t have a musical sequence as stunning as any of the episodes that came before it, “Forget Safety,…
Aug 17 2016
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Ever since the series was announced, The Get Down has described itself as tracing the birth of hip-hop, punk, and…
Aug 12 2016
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In 2016, the musical drama has a gangster problem. HBO’s Vinyl suffered from it, and Netflix’s The Get Down suffers…
Aug 12 2016
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Binge-friendly. Binge-worthy. Bingeable. The words are used frequently, but what exactly do they mean? After all,…