The Magicians
“The Side Effect”
March 6, 2019
“You are trapped in your POV. You have a classic case of white male protagonism, Derek.”
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Month: April 2019
We’re not even going to talk about ‘Game of Thrones’ today … except for two things.
Even Emma Stone can’t save this ‘Saturday Night Live’ (though she tries her best)
Saturday Night Live
Emma Stone & BTS
April 13, 2019
Emma Stone is so charming, so good-natured (or at least seemingly so), so up for anything, that she makes even weak material better with her sheer pluck. That said, “better” isn’t “good,” and as I’ve said about countless other episodes, Emma Stone deserved better than whatever this mess of an episode was. Sure, there were a pair of good sketches that I might fondly remember at the end of this season (but not by the beginning of the next) but there were many more clunkers and sketches that were just flat-out terrible that I feel genuinely sorry for our host.
I am sure Stone will return soon enough to claim that Five Timers Club jacket — the show clearly loves her and trusts her. I just hope when she returns they give her material worthy of her.
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‘The Magicians’: Oops is my discipline
The Magicians
“A Timeline and Place”
February 27, 2019
“It can’t get much worse.”
Julia pushes back on Quentin’s plan to help the Monster rebuild his body in order to get Eliot back. She thinks the potential risk of collateral damage is too great. Quentin confidently says they’ve taken down gods before.
‘Supernatural’: Mary Winchester is complete
Supernatural
“Absence”
April 11, 2019
THEN: “She’s fine. Everything’s going to be fine.”
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I am here to answer all of your ‘Game of Thrones’ questions. Fire away.
‘Game of Thrones’: The Many-Faced God
How ‘Game of Thrones’ will end according to one of my most trusted sources
More ‘Game of Thrones’ odds and ends including Bingo cards and how you’d die in Westeros (hint: it wouldn’t be pretty)
‘The Magicians’: Peaches and plums are my discipline
The Magicians
“Escape from the Happy Place”
February 20, 2019
“You should know your friend Eliot is dead.”
There’s a persistent knocking at the door of the Physical Kids’ cottage. Eliot would rather not answer it. He and his signature cocktail walk away from Todd and join the party that wasn’t happening just a moment ago.
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