Tag: Prime Video
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Lightning Recs: ‘Kevin’ – Aubrey Plaza’s Quirky New Adult Animation
Arriving just in time for the chillest holiday of 4/20, Kevin is the offbeat animated series designed to satisfy all your late-night comedy cravings.
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Fallout: Season Two Expands the Wasteland, but Loses Some Focus
Fallout season 2 grows bigger and more character-focused, but its many storylines slow the pace. Strong performances and world-building keep it entertaining, even if it never hits season one’s highs.
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Series Appetizer: The Mighty Nein
Set twenty years after The Legend of Vox Machina, The Mighty Nein takes us further east, to the continent of Wildemount.
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Season Appetizer: June Farms
If you’re looking for your next workplace reality drama fix after Selling Sunset, give June Farms a whirl.
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‘Hazbin Hotel’ S2 Ups the Ante with Delightful Devilry & Bombastic Musical Numbers
Come for the music, stay for the heart; Hazbin Hotel puts on one hell of a performance.
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Lightning Recs: Dish It Out
Gordon Ramsay’s daughter Tilly has her own cooking show!
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The Runarounds: The Story of a Band with Big Dreams & Bigger Drama
The Runarounds is a music-fueled coming-of-age drama that follows the band as they build their following and figure out who they want to be.
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Prime’s ‘The Map That Leads to You’ Is a Summer Popcorn Kind of Love
A lovely romance that takes you on an adventure of a lifetime.
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ROMCON: Who the F*** is Jason Porter?
These types of series are all over and I’m here for every minute of it…but this one, ya’ll, I just don’t know.
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Popcorn Movies: Heads of State
If you’ve never once wondered what would happen if a NATO summit turned into an enemies-to-buddies brawl, Heads of State is here to make you pray it never happens, but with a wink and a…
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Millennial Murder She Wrote? Count Me In for ‘Another Simple Favor’
When I was sitting and watching this new one, I was like – is this a millennial Murder She Wrote, and why did no one tell me this? I love me some Murder She Wrote.
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‘The Last of Us’ S2, ‘Sinners’, ‘The Amateur’, ‘Warfare’, ‘G20’, ‘Lazarus’
The Last of Us S2 has taken over our Rioters’ brains this week, who provide us with a spoilerific breakdown of the first episode. They also get into Sinners, The Amateur, Warfare, G20, and Lazarus,…
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‘The Wheel of Time’ Season 3: Battles, Betrayals, and Blood
We get to see all the setup and character development from the past two seasons fully take control of the narrative. Which means it’s about to get messy as hell, y’all (and to that, I…
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‘All-Star Superman’, ‘Reacher’ S3 x ‘Commando’, ‘Lesbian Space Princess’, Book Talk
Here’s another Geek Girl Riot smorgasbord for you to enjoy, including Superman hot takes, Reacher and Commando mash-ups, and some delicious film & book recs.
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Nicole Kidman’s Picture-Perfect Life Turns Twisted in the ‘Holland’ Trailer
Prime Video’s upcoming thriller is about to lead you up the garden path before tumbling down, down, down the rabbit hole.
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‘Reacher’ S3 – Breaking Necks and Stomping Emotions
Reacher Season 3 is a high-octane game of espionage, romance, neck-breaking, revenge, explosions, giggles, and People Thinking Reacher Won’t Kill Them When He Will. And I can’t wait to press play again.
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Viola Davis is Our Heroic Madame President in the Upcoming ‘G20’
A new Viola Davis dream comes true with the high-octane political thriller G20 (and it has Ramón Rodríguez too)
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Simone Ashley Looks for a Wedding Date in the ‘Picture This’ Trailer
Our beloved Simone Ashley is on a quest to capture our hearts once again with her upcoming rom-com, Picture This.
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‘Clean Slate’ – Southern Roots and Second Chances
Going home is hard work but healing in Prime Video’s Clean Slate
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Whachudoin’? with Cinco Paul, Oscar Nominations with Brandon Troy, ‘Harlem’ S3
We chat with Cinco Paul about Schmigadoon!’s stage adaptation, before Sherin throws the mic to Brandon Troy to chat Oscar nominations. Finally, we dig into season 3 of Harlem.
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REVISITED: ‘The Idea of You’ Gets the Idea, but I’m Not In Love
A look back at Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in ‘The Idea of You’ from Prime Video and why it was a Movie of the Wee
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‘Red One’ Delivers Holiday Action and 4DX Thrills, But Falls Short on Story
It’s an okay movie, but it can be an experience, and that experience can make fond memories.
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CrissCROSSed: A Cage Match for the Alex Cross Championship
Which actor played Cross better? RIOTUS presents a three-man cage match for the Alex Cross championship belt.
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Cross: Aldis Hodge Brings Depth to Alex Cross in a Gripping Prime Video Thriller
Cross is a must-watch on Prime Video this season as it’s one of their best shows in this solid year for the service.
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Nkechi Okoro Carroll, PBS ‘Renegades’ x Day Al-Mohamed & Lachi, ‘Invincible Fight Girl’ x Juston G-Montgomery, ‘CROSS’ x NYCC, ‘The Penguin’
Sherin chats with NBC’s Found creator Nkechi Okoro Carroll, before sitting down with Day Al-Mohamed and Lachi to celebrate Renegades.
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NYCC Catch-up, ‘Invincible Fight Girl’ feat. Juston Gordon-Montgomery, ‘Shrinking’ S2, PBS ‘Renegades’ Aftershow #5: Brad Lomax
Julian recaps his time at this year’s New York Comic Con; our Rioters tease Invincible Fight Girl and Philip chats with executive producer Juston Gordon-Montgomery; Sherin and Alex share their love for Shrinking S2; and…
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‘CROSS’ Interview at NYCC, PBS ‘Renegades’ Aftershow #4: Thomas Wiggins
Hear from the cast & creators of CROSS live from NYCC, then get into our fourth PBS Renegades Aftershow that honors Thomas Wiggins.
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First Look at ‘CROSS’ Unveiled at NYCC: Aldis Hodge Takes on Iconic Role
Prime Video surprised fans at the New York Comic Con panel for CROSS with the exclusive first look at the highly anticipated series
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Megan Park’s ‘My Old Ass’ Delivers Laughs and Life Lessons in a Time-Bending Teen Tale
Things never stay the same, and it’s a vital part of growing up and learning that lesson.
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Series Appetizer: Rom-Com Fans Will Want to Watch ‘Nobody Wants This’
Kristen Bell returns to the rom-com series scene as Joanne, an agnostic podcaster whose life takes a turn when she meets Noah, an offbeat rabbi played by Adam Brody
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Episode Appetizer: ‘The Rings of Power’ – “Where is He?” [S2E6]
“Where is He?” explores what it means to stand up in the face of ruin and find hope—and isn’t that the most Tolkien thing of all?
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Episode Appetizer: ‘The Rings of Power’ – “Halls of Stone” [S2E5]
As “Halls of Stone” swings between kingdoms like a pendulum of doom, the feeling of peril grows, compelled by the episode’s dark yet urgent tone.
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What ‘Star Wars’ Could Learn from ‘The Rings of Power’
Creating bold stories that push boundaries is what ensures these franchises not only move into the future, but shape it.
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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 2 is a Captivating Middle-earth Adventure
Almost two years since we last left Middle-earth, The Rings of Power returns to prove that the wait was worth it.
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‘The Rings of Power’ S2 Trailer is a Gift of Treachery, Deceit, and War
Season 2 of The Rings of Power is almost upon us and the trailer is about to set your soul on fire.
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Batman: Caped Crusader
It’s hard to review Batman: Caped Crusader for me because, honestly, a new Batman animated series by Bruce Timm, James Tucker, Matt Reeves, Ed Brubaker, and J.J. Abrams is a no-brainer. Just from Bruce Timm,…
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Feeling Like James Bond with ‘My Spy: The Eternal City’ at the International Spy Museum
At some point during 2020, the days melted together into a blob resembling the sourdough starter I kept forgetting to feed. One nondescript afternoon, I walked into my bedroom, started Amazon Prime Video, and took…
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Space Cadet feat. Liz W. Garcia, Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted feat. Isaac Gale & Ben Wu, Dead Boy Detectives Interviews
Sherin chats with writer/director Liz W. Garcia about Space Cadet, before moderating a discussion with director Isaac Gale and producer Ben Wu about Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted. We also revisit our time spent…
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Space Cadet
Prime Video’s Space Cadet premieres for post-fireworks fun on July 4th, blending workplace rom-com with space travel dreams.
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Batman: Caped Crusader trailer and new stills
Now, I don’t usually do this – posting news, but it’s not every day or shoot, even every year you get a new show, Batman: The Animated Series from Bruce Timm and James Tucker. Batman:…
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Sugar feat. Kirby, Cowboy Carter, Entertainment Wishes & Tributes, Road House Interviews
The always wonderful Kirby chats with GGR all about Apple TV+’s new series Sugar. Then Sherin & Monique get together for one of their classic chitchats, before revisiting our interviews with the cast of Road…
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Mrs & Mr Spy: The Second Helping
We know how much y’all loved our Mrs & Mr Spy episode last year and now we’re back for another mission. Hear our Rioters’ hot takes on the Grammys, Argylle, Mr & Mrs Smith, Wild…
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Series Appetizer: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Taking on one of the classics is never easy, particularly when it is still beloved today. But Prime Video rises to the challenge with their take on Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
You know, like most, I was pretty surprised that Donald Glover’s next project on TV starring was a TV series connected to a film from 2005 when stars were the driving force to see a…
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The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy Official Trailer and Guest Stars from Prime Video
If we do a roll call of the names Maya Rudolph, Natasha Lyonne, Keke Palmer, Stephanie Hsu, Kieran Culkin, and Sam Smith, would that make you sit up?
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EXPATS (2024)
Delving into the lives of a close-knit expatriate community, the drama explores the mercurial interplay of friendships, rivalries, and secrets among a group of women, their men, and their other loves, after a series of…
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The Road House Trailer is One Big Sprawling Fight-Fest
Road House is smashing its way onto Prime Video on March 21. You ready?
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Candy Cane Lane
It’s the Christmas season, so now we’re in the wave of holiday movies, especially on all the many streaming services and basic cable channels. Amazon MGM has one entry themselves, Candy Cane Lane partnering Eddie…
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The Burial
I must say it’s wild for me just how much streaming has changed the movie business and how we see what we see. While there is so much noise about concert films making a big…
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Episode Appetizer: Wilderness – “Happily Ever After”
Wilderness opens with Taylor Swift’s sinfully iconic “Look What You Made Me Do”, setting the tone for what this series wants to be.
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Entertainment News + Binge-Watch Update, American Born Chinese, The Power feat. Naomi De Pear
It’s been a busy summer for our Rioters and they’re here to catch you up. Listen out for some new TV & movie recs including the swoon-worthy Red, White & Royal Blue, some entertainment drah-mah,…
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Red, White & Royal Blue (the movie)
Casey McQuiston’s book is a big swoony romance. And we crave that here on RIOT-US. We had to review Red, White & Royal Blue
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Good Omens – Season 2
It should be noted, I have read Good Omens, the original novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, more than some bible-thumping politicians have read the good book. More than necromancers have read the Necronomicon.…
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I’m A Virgo
I’m A Virgo is weird you all. I’m talking weird weird. Now I’m with this, but watching this, folks aren’t ready for just how out there this show is while it also is very grounded…
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XO, Kitty, PRIMO, Saint X, The Power, Ted Lasso S3
You know how we do: Geek Girl Riot has got the tea on all your next binge-watches, including: XO, Kitty, PRIMO, Saint X, The Power, and Ted Lasso.
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DEAD RINGERS
A 6-episode descent into a story so frenzied you don’t know whether to weep, group text your friends, or toss your obviously possessed TV out the window.
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Carnival Row – Season 2
Carnival Row returns to The Burgue, where things are more divided than ever.
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Harlem Season 2 with Tracy Oliver (Teaser)
Have you seen our interview with Tracy Oliver? We talked about Harlem Season 2 (the magnificence).
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Watch This Week – 11/28/22
This week: The Great Christmas Light Fight, Willow, Irreverent, Gossip Girl, Three Pines, Riches, Spoiler Alert, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Firefly Lane, Women Talking
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The Rings of Power S1 Spoiler-Zone, The School for Good and Evil, From Scratch, Panhandle
Dive into a spoiler-ific breakdown of The Rings of Power Season 1. Hear teasers of The School for Good and Evil, From Scratch, Panhandle, and more TV!
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The Rings of Power, Vampire Academy, The Woman King, Soothing Toons
Our Rioters talk: The Rings of Power, Vampire Academy, and The Woman King. They also shout out some of their fave soothing toons, including Bee and PuppyCat!
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Watch This Week – 7/25/22
This week: Motherland: Fort Salem, Street Food: USA, Dream Home Makeover, The Most Hated Man on the Internet, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, Keep Breathing, Not Okay, Uncoupled, Paper Girls
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Watch This Week – 7/18/22
This week: Motherland: Fort Salem, Virgin River, grown-ish, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Rap Sh!t, Blown Away, Anything’s Possible
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Watch This Week – 7/11/22
This week: Motherland: Fort Salem, Solar Opposites, Everything’s Trash, Resident Evil, Hart to Heart, Persuasion
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Watch This Week – 6/27/22
This week: Only Murders in the Building, Cristela Alonzo: Middle Classy, Motherland: Fort Salem, Baymax!, The Upshaws, The Princess, Stranger Things, The Terminal List
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Watch This Week – 6/13/22
This week: Love, Victor, Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend, Rutherford Falls, Spiderhead, The Summer I Turned Pretty
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Watch This Week – 6/6/22
This week: Ms. Marvel, Queer as Folk, First Kill, For All Mankind, Fairfax
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Watch This Week – 5/16/22
This week: Love on the Spectrum U.S., Angelyne, The G Word with Adam Conover, Young Justice: Phantoms, The Valet, Night Sky, Love, Death + Robots, Now and Then
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Watch This Week – 5/2/22
This week: The Circle, Girls5eva, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The Wilds, Christina P: Mom Genes
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Watch This Week – 4/18/22
This week: Better Call Saul, Pacific Rim: The Black, Russian Doll, The Flight Attendant, A Very British Scandal, Selling Sunset, Heartstopper, Outer Range
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Watch This Week – 3/28/22
This week: The Girl from Plainville, Mike Epps: Indiana Mike, Moon Knight, The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, Moonshot, The Outlaws, Get Organized with The Home Edit, Killing Eve
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Watch This Week – 3/21/22
This week: Jeff Foxworthy: The Good Old Days, Starstruck, grown-ish, Atlanta, Bridgerton, Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, Killing Eve
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Watch This Week – 3/7/22
This week: Taylor Tomlinson: Look At You, The Andy Warhol Diaries, grown-ish, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Turning Red, Upload, Life After Death with Tyler Henry, The Adam Project, Killing Eve
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Watch This Week – 2/14/22
This week: Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, Swap Shop, grown-ish, Space Force, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
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Watch This Week – 1/24/22
This week: Resident Alien, Astrid & Lilly Save the World, grown-ish, The Legend of Vox Machina, The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window, The Afterparty, Getting Curious With Jonathan…
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Peacemaker, The 355, Joss Whedon is Terrible
Gather round for a Geek Girl Riot comic book shop-style conversation about Peacemaker, The 355, and the train wreck that is Joss Whedon in his New York Magazine interview.
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Watch This Week – 1/18/22
This week: How I Met Your Father, Supernatural Academy, Single Drunk Female, As We See It, Ozark
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Watch This Week – 1/31/22
This week: Raising Dion, Pam & Tommy, grown-ish, Murderville, Reacher, Sweet Magnolias, Book of Love
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Watch This Week – 12/20/21
Coming soon: Jim Gaffigan: Comedy Monster, Emily in Paris, Yearly Departed, Death to 2021, The Book of Boba Fett, Cobra Kai, Queer Eye, This Is Us, 27th Annual Critics Choice Awards, Euphoria
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Watch This Week – 12/13/21
This week: Grand Crew, The Hand of God, Selling Tampa, The Witcher, With Love
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Watch This Week – 12/6/21
This week: 9-1-1, Nicole Byer: BBW (Big Beautiful Weirdo), People’s Choice Awards, Abbott Elementary, Mr. Saturday Night, The Expanse, Crossing Swords, Saturday Morning All Star Hits!
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Watch This Week – 11/15/21
This week: 9-1-1, Marvel’s Hit-Monkey, Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, The Curse of Von Dutch, Star Trek: Discovery, The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star, Cowboy Bebop, The Great, The Wheel of Time, Blown Away:…
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Watch This Week – 10/25/21
This week: Sex: Unzipped, Chicago Med, Star Trek: Prodigy, Fairfax, Colin in Black & White, Army of Thieves, Doctor Who
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Watch This Week – 10/12/21
This week: The Baby-Sitters Club, Chucky, Chicago Med, You, I Know What You Did Last Summer
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Watch This Week – 9/13/21
This week: Y: The Last Man, The World’s Most Amazing Vacation Rentals, You vs. Wild: Out Cold, Nailed It!, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Morning Show, Sex Education, Chicago Party Aunt, Black Power:…
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Watch This Week – 9/7/21
This week: Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space, The Circle, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Lucifer, LuLaRich, Metal Shop Masters
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Watch This Week – 8/30/21
This week: Only Murders in the Building, Sparking Joy with Marie Kondo, How to Be a Cowboy, grown-ish, Q-Force, The D’Amelio Show, Cinderella
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Watch This Week – 8/9/21
This week: Reservation Dogs, Motherland: Fort Salem, Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang, Untold, The Kissing Booth 3, What If…?, Bake Squad, Titans, Grown-ish, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild,…
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Watch This Week – 7/26/21
This week: Motherland: Fort Salem, Love is Blind: After the Altar, Tattoo Redo, Grown-ish, Jungle Cruise, Central Park, Outer Banks, Centaurworld, The Pursuit of Love
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Watch This Week – 6/21/21
This week: Motherland: Fort Salem, The Bold Type, Too Hot to Handle, Making It, Central Park, Fathom, Sex/Life, Who Are You, Charlie Brown?, September Mornings, Fast & Furious 9, Bosch, The Mysterious Benedict Society
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Watch This Week – 5/24/21
This week: High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, The Bold Type, Friends: The Reunion, iHeartRadio Music Awards, Cruella, The Kominsky Method, Lucifer, Panic
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Watch This Week – 4/26/21
This week: The Handmaid’s Tale, Headspace: Guide to Sleep, Yasuke, Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, Pet Stars, The Nevers, Pose
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Watch This Week – 4/12/21
This week: My Love: Six Stories of True Love, Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!, The Circle, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Arlo the Alligator Boy, The Year Earth Changed, Frank of Ireland, Van Helsing, The Nevers,…
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Watch This Week – 4/5/21
This week: Family Reunion, The Wedding Coach, This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist, Home Economics, Rebel, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, GLAAD Media Awards, Thunder Force, THEM, The Nevers, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
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Watch This Week – 3/22/21
This week: Who Killed Sara?, Nailed It!: Double Trouble, Invincible, The Irregulars, Solar Opposites, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
