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Author: Paula Shaffer

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’

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Yellowjackets
TELEVISION 

‘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

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Ghosts
TELEVISION 

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’

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How I Met Your Father
TELEVISION 

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

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The Wheel of Time
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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

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Bread Barbershop
TELEVISION 

The Disturbingly Weird World of ‘Bread Barbershop’

September 15, 2021April 3, 2022 Paula Shaffer 2 Comments Bong Joon-Ho, Bread Barbershop, Gangnam Style, The Masked Singer

What’s in the water in South Korea?

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Only Murders In The Building
TELEVISION 

‘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

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The Bold Type
TELEVISION 

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

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Special
TELEVISION 

‘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

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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

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Cruel Summer
TELEVISION 

‘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?

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Shadow & Bone
FICTION Netflix TELEVISION Young Adult 

‘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

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The Last Blockbuster
DOCUMENTARY FILM 

‘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

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Eilish
DOCUMENTARY FILM MUSIC 

Billie Eilish is a Little Blurry

March 24, 2021March 29, 2021 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Billie Eilish, Madonna, The World's A Little Blurry, Truth or Dare

The documentary of a modern popstar for the people, totally in control

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Ginny & Georgia
Netflix TELEVISION 

‘Ginny & Georgia’: It’s No ‘Gilmore Girls’

March 18, 2021 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Gilmore Girls, Ginny & Georgia

Every episode runs just under an hour, but each manages to feel like a day

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