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‘Spartacus: House of Ashur’ Review: Starz’s Sword-and-Sandal Spinoff Delivers Sexy, Gory Spectacle
Nick E. Tarabay reprises his role as the former gladiator from Assyria for a sequel set in an alternate timeline in which the character survived to rise through the ranks of Roman society.
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‘The Abandons’ Review: Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey Lead Kurt Sutter’s Disappointingly Slight Netflix Western
Two matriarchs butt heads over the fate of their Washington Territory frontier town in this seven-part drama co-starring Nick Robinson and Aisling Franciosi.
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‘Stranger Things’ Review: The Final Season of Netflix’s Horror Hit Gets Stuck in the Upside Down
Linda Hamilton joins the cast for the show's fifth and last outing, consisting of eight chapters to be released in three chunks over the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays.
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‘Heated Rivalry’ Review: HBO Max’s Horny Hockey Drama Is a Playful Gay Romance for Grown-Ups
'Letterkenny' veteran Jacob Tierney wrote and directed the six-part series about a pair of rising hockey stars who fall into a steamy affair.
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‘High Horse: The Black Cowboy’ Review: Jordan Peele-Produced Peacock Docuseries Deftly Corrects a Faulty Historical Record
Jason Perez directed the three-parter that covers Bass Reeves, 'Cowboy Carter,' Manifest Destiny and more.
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‘The Assassin’ Review: Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore Bicker Charmingly in AMC+’s Too-Slight Hitwoman Comedy
Harry and Jack Williams created this series about a killer for hire and her journalist son, set in and around various photogenic European locales.
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Critics’ Conversation: Heavyweights (and Horny Puppets) Pull Fall TV Back From the Brink
In a lackluster stretch for the small screen, the few home runs came mostly from established voices like Vince Gilligan ('Pluribus'), Sterlin Harjo ('The Lowdown') and Raphael Bob-Waksberg ('Long Story Short').
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‘Malice’ Review: David Duchovny’s Star Power Can’t Redeem Amazon’s Tepid Miserable-Rich-People Thriller
Jack Whitehall plays a charismatic nanny who ingratiates himself with a wealthy family, and then starts to destroy their lives bit by bit.
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‘The Beast in Me’ Review: Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys Try Hard, but Netflix’s Cat-and-Mouse Thriller Is an Exercise in Prestige TV Monotony
A profile writer and a possible killer dance around the truth in this over-extended eight-episode series set in a wealthy enclave of Long Island.
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‘Last Samurai Standing’ Review: Netflix’s Fusion of ‘Squid Game’ and ‘Shogun’ Doesn’t Soar, but It Satisfies
Junichi Okada stars, produces and did the action choreography on this six-part series about a nefarious game pitting samurai against each other in 19th-century Japan.
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Say What?! The 20 Most Jaw-Dropping Lines From ‘All’s Fair,’ Ranked
The first three episodes of Hulu’s pilloried legal soap from Ryan Murphy and Kris Jenner Productions have already served up a bonanza of truly bonkers dialogue (and a truckload of Birkin bags).
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‘Stumble’ Review: NBC’s Competitive Cheerleading Mockumentary Is Hardly a Winner
The series, which also features Kristin Chenoweth as a recurring guest star, centers around an elite coach played by Jenn Lyon trying to lead a team of squabbling misfits to a championship.
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‘Pluribus’ Review: Rhea Seehorn Is a Funny, Sad Marvel in Vince Gilligan’s Evasive Apple TV Multi-Genre Original
The 'Better Call Saul' alumna plays a historical romance writer who returns to Albuquerque to discover a scary and unsettling changed world in the new sci-fi-horror-comedy-drama series.
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‘The American Revolution’ Review: Ken Burns Tackles the War for Independence in Patriotic, Pragmatic and Familiar Form
PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S. history.
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‘Death by Lightning’ Review: Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen Headline Netflix’s Mostly Gripping, Slightly Rushed Presidential Assassination Thriller
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are among the executive producers on the four-part James Garfield drama also featuring Betty Gilpin and Nick Offerman.
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‘All Her Fault’ Review: Sarah Snook, Dakota Fanning and Jake Lacy Anchor Peacock’s Satisfying Domestic Mystery
Michael Peña also stars in this eight-part thriller centering on the disappearance of a 5-year-old boy from a wealthy Chicago neighborhood.
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