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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: Looking BackI’m with Madison all the way.
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: If You Love Me, Prove It“Pablo & Jessica” feels loose in ways that few episodes do.
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: Out on a LedgeYet again, Fear the Walking Dead won’t play fair with expectations.
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: Tired of SurvivingIs anybody on this show capable of talking like a human?
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: Follow the Crimson RoadThe show still doesn’t have a firm grasp on its characters, but “Grotesque” is a step in the right direction.
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    Outcast Season Finale Recap: Who Do You Love?It’s tough to trust a show that keeps stringing its audience along.
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    Outcast Recap: Devil’s AdvocateWatching Outcast is like riding the world’s most underwhelming roller coaster.
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    Outcast Recap: Sympathy for the Devil“What Lurks Within” is a deceptively slow episode.
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    Outcast Recap: Satanic PanicAfter a few bumpy episodes, “The Damage Done” shows new signs of promise.
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    Outcast Recap: Who Still Uses VHS Tapes?“From the Shadows It Watches” is a major tumble backward.
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    Outcast Recap: A Cesspool of Pride“The Road Before Us” is about what people do when their best is not enough.
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    Outcast Recap: Keeping the Romance Alive“A Wrath Unseen” is Outcast’s best episode yet.
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    Outcast Recap: God Is Messing With UsThe weakest installment of an otherwise promising new series.
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    Outcast Recap: The Banality of EvilIt’s tough to take this show’s heavy-handed psychologizing seriously.
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    Outcast Series Premiere Recap: Kicking and ScreamingThis show feels like Robert Kirkman’s comic, for better and worse.
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: Burning It All Down“Shiva” is a lumpy mid-season finale, but it ultimately satisfies.
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: Don’t Feed the ZombiesThe first dud in an otherwise compelling season.
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: The Laws of NatureHelicopter mom to the rescue!
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: A Touch of Class WarfareThomas is an true alpha predator.
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: The Survivor’s DilemmaCrabs in his guts! That zombie had crabs in his guts!
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: Meet the SurvivalistsThis show is at its best when it poses questions without easy answers.
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    Fear the Walking Dead Season Premiere Recap: Everybody Into the Water!Fear the Walking Dead is too frustrating to be great, but too eccentric to be dismissed.
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    Gotham Recap: Strong EmotionsHow many times are we supposed to forgive James Gordon?
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    Gotham Recap: Tazed in the FaceIf you watch Gotham for anything but its performances, it will almost certainly break your heart.
  25. getting technical
    How The Hunger Games Director Francis Lawrence Tackled These 6 ShotsFrom the fog attack in Catching Fire to that emotionally charged hug in Mockingjay Part 2.
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    Gotham Recap: Some Fun, At Last!If you wade through the predictable twists, you’ll find two genuinely bonkers fight scenes at the end of this episode.
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    Gotham Recap: There Is No Rock BottomHow many characters are going to die before Jim Gordon learns to control his temper?
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    Gotham Recap: Scream Bloody MurderThe episode’s plotting is overly reliant on canned decisions and cheap cop-outs.
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    Gotham Recap: No Emotionally Stable PeopleGotham really needs to slow down and let characters enjoy each other’s company.
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    Gotham Recap: Who Let James Gordon Be a Cop?Everything Gotham has gotten wrong in the past season and a quarter, crammed into an hour-long installment.
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    Gotham Recap: And Then That One Guy Blew Up“Scarification” is the first episode of Gotham’s second season that is, for better and worse, a must-see. 
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    Gotham Recap: There Goes the Cavalry!Don’t like what you see on the show? Just wait, it’ll change in a moment!
  33. nycc 2015
    Paul Reubens Will Play Penguin’s Dad in GothamAnd five other highlights from the show’s NYCC panel.
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    5 Things to Expect in Supergirl’s First SeasonThe writers’ room is 50 percent female.
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    Gotham Recap: Melrose Bat-PlaceThe people of Gotham City may be dumb, but they can’t be that dumb. Can they?
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    Fear the Walking Dead Finale Recap: The Agony of Not KnowingThis show is at its best when it ambles from one moment to the next.
  37. the cannon canon
    Cannon Films: A 10-Part Appreciation of TrashWhat other studio was crazy enough to deem Chuck Norris its leading man, and bet big on a Stallone arm-wrestling flick?
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    Gotham Recap: Placeholder DramaA bunch of stuff happens tonight on Gotham, but none of it makes sense.
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: Torture Is Fine by Me“I don’t like doing knock-knock raids on civilians; it’s bad for morale.”
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    Gotham Recap: Oh No, Barbara’s Evil NowWelcome back to Gotham, where everything looks different, but nothing has changed.
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: Rooting for EvilAlmost every one of Fear the Walking Dead’s protagonists seems incapable of holding competing thoughts in their heads.
  42. influences
    Dr. Who, Beer, and Other Rick & Morty Influences“Would our moms get this? Would they be entertained by this?
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    Fear the Walking Dead Recap: Zombies Ate My NeighborsHow much mileage can you get out of a single reanimated corpse?
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    FTWD Recap: Well-Meaning MadnessPeople aren’t making sense.
  45. chat room
    Roger Corman on Sharktopus and Easy Rider Regret“There’s no law that says every scene in a trailer has to be in the picture.”
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    Fear the Walking Dead Pilot Recap: Optimism Before the End of the WorldBetter in theory than in execution.
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    Sense8 Recap: Empathy Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry Was this season admirable folly or ballsy success?
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    Sense8 Episodes 7–9 Recap: We Need to Talk About LitoLito’s story is the most disappointing part of these episodes.
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    Sense8 Episodes 4–6 Recap: Let’s Have an Orgy! Sense8 is not yet like Lost (in a good way).
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    Sense8 Recap: What’s Going On Here?These recaps are written in FAQ style because after watching a batch of three episodes, you’ll probably have a lot of questions.
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