tv recap
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Lovecraft Country Has Given Up Cohesive Storytelling in Favour of Something More Dramatic
What little hope there was for Lovecraft Country’s first season trying to tell a single, cohesive story went completely out the window this week with “I Am,” a statement episode that gave Aunjanue Ellis’ Hippolyta Freeman everything she’d ever dreamed of…just to ask her to give it all up.
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The NOS4A2 Season Finale Managed to Find Some Hope in Its Very Weird Darkness
AMC’s Joe Hill adaptation NOS4A2 wrapped up its second season last night. After bringing the epic conflict between TV’s oddest vampire and the motorcycle-riding young mum who’s trying to end his reign of terror to surreal heights in its second-to-last episode, the finale felt like a giant exhale…for the most part.
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Doom Patrol’s Abrupt Season 2 Finale Burns Bright Before Going Out Like a Light
Besides the usual themes of self-discovery, Doom Patrol’s second season has been all about finding out what to do about Niles Caulder’s increasingly dangerous daughter Dorothy. We knew some kind of standoff was inevitable, but leave it to Doom Patrol to find a way to pull us even deeper into its weirdness, surprise us, and…
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Legends of Tomorrow’s Timely Season Finale Celebrates Revolution
“If you make life bleak enough, people become so focused on survival they forget they can revolt.” Zari may not have known those words would come out at a time like this, but the season five finale of Legends of Tomorrow delivered the message we all need: Sometimes a little chaos is the best way…