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Afterparty

What Comes After ‘The Afterparty’?

March 15, 2022April 3, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Ben Schwartz, Dave Franco, Ike Barinholtz, Ilana Glazer, The Afterparty, Tiffany Haddish, Zoe Chao

Why is the breezy millennial whodunnit getting a second season?

Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson Levels Up

March 3, 2022March 7, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Brandon Sanderson, Kickstarter, Wheel of Time

Fantasy author unleashes four novels for fans on an all-time successful Kickstarter

Pam & Tommy

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Dr. Feelbad

February 17, 2022April 3, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Lily James, Nick Offerman, Pam & Tommy, Pamela Anderson, Sebastian Stan, Seth Rogen, Tommy Lee

The many missteps of ‘Pam & Tommy’

Yellowjackets

‘Yellowjackets’: A Mystery Box For Our Time

January 26, 2022April 3, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Christina Ricci, Jasmine Savoy Brown, Juliette Lewis, Melanie Lynskey, Samantha Hanratty, Sophie Nélisse, Sophie Thatcher, Tawny Cypress, Yellowjackets

Teen trauma, survivor’s guilt, and plenty of gore mix in a genre show worthy of its buzz

Ghosts

They See Dead People

January 21, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Brandon Scott Jones, Ghosts, Rose McIver, Utkarsh Abudkar

The cheeky charms of CBS’s surprise hit sitcom ‘Ghosts’

How I Met Your Father

Who Cares How I Met Your Father?

January 20, 2022April 3, 2022 Paula Shaffer 1 Comment Christopher Lowell, Francia Raisia, Hilary Duff, How I Met Your Father, How I Met Your Mother, Suraj Sharma, Tien Tran, Tom Ainsley

Faint echoes of TV past

The Wheel of Time

Big Wheel Keeps On Turnin’

November 23, 2021December 6, 2021 Paula Shaffer 2 Comments Daniel Henney, Game Of Thrones, George RR Martin, Robert Jordan, Rosamund Pike, The Wheel of Time

Amazon’s ‘Wheel of Time’ adaptation, lush and a little self-serious

Bread Barbershop

The Disturbingly Weird World of ‘Bread Barbershop’

September 15, 2021April 3, 2022 Paula Shaffer 1 Comment Bong Joon-Ho, Bread Barbershop, Gangnam Style, The Masked Singer

What’s in the water in South Korea?

Only Murders In The Building

‘Only Murders In The Building’, They Wrote

September 3, 2021March 10, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Martin Short, Only Murders In The Building, Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, Sting, true crime

Steve Martin, Martin Short (and Selena Gomez) together again, living the true crime dream

The Bold Type

Pour One Out for ‘The Bold Type’

June 29, 2021March 16, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Cosmopolitan, Freeform, Sassy Magazine, The Bold Type

Praise for the fashion-magazine show as it steers to a close

Special

‘Special’ Brings All The Feels

June 23, 2021March 15, 2022 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Jessica Hecht, Punam Patel, Ryan O'Connell, Special

A somehow universally relatable show about a lonely gay man with cerebral palsy

MUSIC TELEVISION

‘Girls5eva’: 2 Hard 2 Watch

June 2, 2021 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Busy Philipps, Dean Winters, Girls5eva, Paula Pell, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sara Bareilles, Tina Fey

Peacock’s send-up of all-girl pop groups falls flat

Cruel Summer

‘Cruel Summer’: a Small-Town Texas Teenage Fever Dream

May 18, 2021May 18, 2021 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments 1990s, Cruel Summer, Freeform, Stephen Soderbergh, Taylor Swift

Do you remember the mid-90s?

Shadow & Bone

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‘Shadow & Bone’: Damsels Who Rescue Themselves

April 28, 2021April 28, 2021 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Leigh Bardugo, Shadow & Bone

Netflix series turns fantasy and young-adult tropes on their heads

The Last Blockbuster

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‘The Last Blockbuster’ Ignores the Fact that Blockbuster Video was Terrible

March 29, 2021April 5, 2021 Paula Shaffer 3 Comments Blockbuster Video, Kevin Smith, Lloyd Kaufman, The Last Blockbuster, Troma Entertainment

It destroyed independent video stores, and censored movies