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In Run, helicopter parenting reaches a whole new level of unhinged. Likely taking cues from the real-life Munchausen-…
Nov 16
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In another timeline, the latest season of Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story arrived just in time to coincide with…
Nov 15
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FX has a proud history of giving Ryan Murphy whatever he wants, despite the fact that Netflix also dropped a giant…
Sep 30
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In Ratched, Cynthia Nixon plays a strong woman with political aspirations who falls in love with another woman and…
Sep 23
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It’s a universally acknowledged Hollywood truth that monkeys are notoriously bad scene partners. But as Sharon…
Sep 18
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In Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series, Sarah Paulson plays Nurse Mildred Ratched, a dour figure audiences first met…
Sep 18
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For someone who’s become the go-to actor for outsized, mesmerizingly intense TV villainy, Sarah Paulson is one big…
Sep 14
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Does evil always have an origin story? In the world of Evan Romansky’s Ratched, the answer is yes. Giving the…
Sep 8
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If the first trailer for Netflix’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest prequel, Ratched, served to introduce Sarah…
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Both the pandemic and the presidency of Donald Trump are national traumas destined to damage and transform America…
Aug 4
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“We had a saying in the Corps: Save one life and you’re a hero. Save a 100 lives—well, then you’re a nurse.” Each…
Jul 29
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Even in 2020 the existence of a Nurse Ratched origin story from Ryan Murphy inspires a little disbelief. This could…
Jun 11
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It’s been nearly three months since the world united to laugh at Gal Gadot and her famous friends’ tone-deaf…
May 20
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This episode is called “Houston,” but it might as well be called “Alice,” or rather “That Time Alice Got High at the…
Feb 20
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Searching, a clever, John Cho-starring thriller unfolding entirely on computer screens, was one of the best…
Jan 9 2020
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Cate Blanchett owns the libs as anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly in FX's Mrs. America trailer
Cate Blanchett stars in FX’s Mrs. America—emphasis on the Mrs.—as Phyllis Schlafly, the anti-feminist activist who…
Jan 9 2020
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The most recent season American Horror Story, the slasher movie-inspired 1984, was the first one without series…
Sep 18 2019
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Say what you will about The Goldfinch—and a lot of critics are—but at least it has Sarah Paulson and Luke Wilson in…
Aug 6 2019
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The American Crime Story franchise has had its ups and downs on FX: The ups mostly involving the onscreen products…
Jul 8 2019
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According to Variety, Sarah Paulson will be sitting out most—if not all—of the upcoming American Horror Story: 1984 s…