Month: December 2019

In which ‘Watchmen’ blows my mind one last time.

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Do not fuck with Nancy.

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It’s time.

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Merry Impeachment Eve!

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Scarlett Johansson steers a wildly uneven ‘Saturday Night Live’

by Therese Odell, posted in saturday night live: season 45

Saturday Night Live
Scarlett Johansson & Niall Horan
December 14, 2019

I am not coming for Scarlett Johansson. This is her sixth time hosting Saturday Night Live, she knows what she is doing, and for a gorgeous starlet who is probably best known for her superhero role in the Avengers films, she has good comic timing and is always game for whatever the show will throw at her.

So you would think that as the fiancee of the head writer, she’d enjoy some really well-written sketches. You’d think very wrong! This week’s Saturday Night Live was a mess of mediocre sketches punctuated with some genuinely terrible ones. And the saving grace of the night was a commercial spoof that Johansson wasn’t even in. It’s not that the episode was TERRIBLE, it was just so not-good medium. So medium. Listen: you’ve got a lot of negotiating power, Scarlett Johansson. Don’t let Jost do this to you again.

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Whoopi Goldberg shutting Meghan McCain down on ‘The View’ is an early Christmas present for your blogger

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‘Mr. Robot’ series finale, Eddie Murphy’s return to ‘SNL,’ ‘The Witcher’ and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week

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HOLIDAYS WITH THE HOUGHS — Pictured: (l-r) Julianne Hough, Derek Hough — (Photo by: Trae Patton/NBC)
MR. ROBOT — Season:2 — Pictured: Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson — (Photo by: Nadav Kander/USA Network)
The Witcher (Netflix)

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‘Watchmen’: Every Time You Go Away

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Watchmen
“An Almost Religious Awe”
December 1, 2019

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Kiss these shows goodbye in 2019.

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What the hell is going on in the impeachment today?

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