Hulu Spoilers follow. The veil of Gilead has been lifted for many characters in season 6 of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which will hopefully lead to its downfall. Commander Lawrence is fed up with the weak, power-hungry “religious nutjobs” leading the country. After discovering Handmaids at Jezebel’s in…
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Fox Kids Marvel Comics made their way onto the realm of animated TV frequently, beginning way back in 1966 with the anthology series “The Marvel Super Heroes.” The following year, Hanna-Barbera made a “Fantastic Four” animated series, and the company was off to the races. Marvel shows…
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Static Media A best-selling smash before being adapted into a trilogy of similarly successful movies, author E.L James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” is a strong reminder that sex sells. The novels and their cinematic adaptations explored a central romance that dealt heavily in eroticism and uninhibited sexual…
Static Media For the past few years, Netflix could fairly be accused of employing a strategy of throwing everything they’ve got against a wall and seeing what sticks. With new series and original films premiering on a weekly basis, viewers are both spoiled for choice and browbeaten…
Warner Bros. As a baby bat growing up, my mother loved introducing me to horror movies, especially slashers. The first time I watched “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” she couldn’t wait to tell me about seeing it with her best friend in their 20s and being scared…
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A classic era Simpsons episode featured multiple nods to Frasier, although one proposed joke was ruled a major no-no by the latter sitcom's writers.
Troma In 1992, when Trey Parker and Matt Stone were in their early 20s and attending the University of Colorado at Boulder, they famously assembled a very crudely animated (and gleefully profane) Christmas special called “The Spirit of Christmas.” It featured a violent battle royale between Frosty…
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Apple TV+ After two hit seasons, a lot of the mysteries of Dan Erickson’s bizarre anti-corporate sci-fi series “Severance” remain unsolved. Central among them: What exactly does Lumon do? Lumon, as fans of the show can tell you, is a threatening corporate entity that has developed a…
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Liane Hentscher/HBO Step away from the spores if you haven’t watched “Feel Her Love,” the fifth episode of season 2 of “The Last of Us.” Major spoilers incoming! Ever since Ellie — one of the protagonists of “The Last of Us” (who’s played on the series by Bella…
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DC Comics Few comic book readers might know about Jack Kirby’s “Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth.” The “Kamandi” property was created by Kirby (the comic book legend behind “Eternals”) in 1972 and fell in line with the then-rising trend of post-apocalyptic stories like “Planet of the…
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