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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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Team Decider absolutely loved the zany NBC sitcom Trial & Error. Airing from 2017 to 2018, the first season of this satirical mockumentary centers on Josh Segal, an optimistic New York City lawyer (Nicholas D'Agosto) who travels to a small town in South Carolina to defend an eccentric poetry professor (John Lithgow) accused of brutally...
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Daisy Jones & The Six takes us back backstage with the biggest band that never even existed. Based on the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, the series details how mid-tier rock band The Six soared to new heights when they teamed up with visionary it girl Daisy Jones (Riley Keough). While Daisy's supernova-esque star power made the...
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Since I saw Women Talking at the end of last year I've been recommending it to everyone who would listen, and now it's finally available to watch at home. Set in an isolated Mennonite community, an ensemble cast that includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, and Jessie Buckley — all giving incredibly strong performances— debate whether they should...
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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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The clock is ticking for Far Far Away's most daring feline, Puss in Boots. Having used eight of his lives, the once-fearless hero is forced to face his mortality as a mysterious bounty hunter vows to take number nine. In the adventure that ensues, we watch as the beloved Shrek character searches for magic, grapples with romance and explores the...
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Everything Everywhere All at Once is a transcendent film that exceeds the hype. Directed and written by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, this resplendent breath of fresh cinematic air follows an aging Chinese immigrant (Michelle Yeoh) who gets swept up in an absurd adventure in which she alone can save the world by connecting with parallel...
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