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Mythic Quest S4

After a long wait, the gaming world builders of Apple’s workplace comedy are back, and they’re getting personal. AI and life after COVID are impacting their jobs. Poppy has a new boyfriend, putting the strain on her creative partnership with Ian. And Dana’s rising star is causing some strife. Rob McElhenney, Charlotte Nicdao, and Danny

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James Marsden as president and STerling K Brown as secret service agent

Paradise

Set in a serene world filled with many of the world’s most influential people, Sterling K. Brown plays a Secret Service agent to the president (James Marsden) who ends up accused of murder in this much-anticipated political thriller from This is Us creator Dan Fogelman. From the A.V. Club’s Saloni Gajjar: “Fogelman and the writers

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Paul Schrader and Richard Gere in Oh Canada movie

Oh, Canada

Richard Gere stars as a declining documentary filmmaker determined to tell his own unvarnished life story to his former student (Michael Imperioli), with his wife and collaborator (Uma Thurman) bearing full witness. As his secrets are revealed and his 60s youth reenacted (by Jacob Elordi), it become the story of “a man cleansed of the

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Whisky on the Rocks swedish history comedy

Whiskey on the Rocks

For those who like their history with a grain of satire and Swedes, Hulu’s first Swedish series (with English subtitles) is inspired by the events of the 11-day standoff in 1981 between the USSR and Sweden, when a Soviet ‘Whiskey’-class submarine ran aground on rocks deep inside Swedish territorial waters and Ronald Reagan went head-to-head

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Apple spy drama Prime Target thriller

Prime Target

Ridley Scott is behind Apple’s new eight-episode spy thriller about a mathematician on the verge of a major breakthrough that would kill encryption — throwing him into the crosshairs of a mysterious enemy, the kind that requires him to go on the run with the protection of an NSA agent. A notch more cerebral than

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Jon Stewart comedy to process the inauguration

The Daily Show

An antidote to some of the hard-to-believe-what-we-are-seeing news coverage, The Daily Show is back and surging in viewers – delivering the nightly laughs many need right now in order to fall asleep. Jon Stewart returns Monday nights, but its worth tuning in for the rotation of rising stars Tues-Thursday nights. 11pm ET on Comedy Central.

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Diane Warren: Relentless

Finally, the songwriter gets her due in this awe-inspiring documentary about the 15-time Oscar nominated Diane Warren, the woman behind the hits songs and 450 musicians including some of biggest legends of the past 50 years — from Aerosmith to Taylor Swift, Beyoncé to Celine Dion, Lady Gaga to Britney Spears. A sneak peak quote

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Family spy comedy Back in Action Cameron

Back in Action

Another slick, round-the-world spy action-comedy, this one aiming for broad, PG-13, Family Movie Night appeal for fans of its all-star cast. Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz take the lead as two married former CIA agents who get pulled back in after their cover is blown.  Andrew Scott, Kyle Chandler, Glenn Close co-star in the fast-paced

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The Couple Next Door

After a conservative young couple move in next door to a pair of swingers — with a husband played by Outlander hunk Sam Heughan — a world of “possiblities” and havoc opens up in this six episode thriller from the UK’s Channel 4.  From The Guardian‘s Lucy Mangan:  “What happens when feelings start getting in

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apocalypse musical The End

The End

Arriving in the midst of what feels like an apocalypse in Los Angeles, the Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker behind The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, is behind this “Hollywood musical” unlike any other about the last surviving family of an apocalypse living in a high-end converted salt mine with a son who has never seen the

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