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    The Best and Worst of Love, Death & Robots Volume 2The new season of Netflix’s animated anthology series is significantly shorter than the first, but the hit rate is also much higher.
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    The Walking Dead: World Beyond Recap: I’m on a BoatThe gang’s Mississippi-crossing attempt is a reminder that Walking Dead stories tend to thrive when they center on a clear, tangible goal.
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    The Walking Dead: World Beyond Recap: Old SchoolThe gang splits into groups to explore their would-be natural habitat — a high school — before things inevitably go haywire.
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    The Walking Dead: World Beyond Recap: A New HopeA conflict-averse episode centers on the revelation of a long-held secret that doesn’t have any consequences.
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    The Haunting of Bly Manor’s Rahul Kohli Was Startled by Those Hidden Ghosts, Too“I’d do a whole scene and not realize the whole time that there was a little boy over my shoulder wearing a doll’s mask. It terrified me.”
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    The Walking Dead: World Beyond Recap:Burn Baby BurnA consequential episode sets a promising template for what a standard episode of World Beyond is going to look like.
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    The Haunting of Bly Manor Season-Finale Recap: Every Love Story Is a Ghost StoryThe finale rushes through Dani’s climactic last stand so it can take its time unspooling an elaborate epilogue.
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    The Haunting of Bly Manor Recap: Original SinThe most traditionally gothic outing of the season lays out the origin story for the horrors contained in Bly Manor.
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    The Haunting of Bly Manor Recap: GhostedThe star-crossed love affair of Peter Quint and Rebecca Jessel is the saddest and grimmest story yet in this sad, grim story.
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    The Haunting of Bly Manor Recap: Oh, HenryBly Manor expands its scope to focus on Henry, in a story straight out of another work by The Turn of the Screw writer Henry James.
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    The Haunting of Bly Manor Recap: What Dreams May ComeRarely does the horror-movie cliché of a ghost having “unfinished business” land so poignantly.
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    The Haunting of Bly Manor Recap: Runaway BrideWhatever Bly Manor’s ghosts are trying to accomplish, they have at least two accomplices inside the house.
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    The Haunting of Bly Manor Recap: Tainted LoveMaybe Bly Manor will assert, in the end, that true love is more powerful than possession. But it hasn’t yet.
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    The Haunting of Bly Manor Recap: Problem ChildWe zoom in on one of the story’s most mysterious and unsettling characters: 10-year-old Miles Wingrave.
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    The Haunting of Bly Manor Season-Premiere Recap: First Day on the JobWhatever’s waiting for Dani Clayton inside Bly Manor, she’s bringing her own ghosts with her.
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    The Walking Dead: World Beyond Series-Premiere Recap: The GraduatesA clunky, exposition-filled premiere ends with an open road, and a lot of promise ahead.
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    The Umbrella Academy’s Ritu Arya Didn’t Know About That Lila Twist EitherThe breakout new addition thought she was auditioning for a single-episode role, not one of season two’s biggest cliffhangers.
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    The Umbrella Academy Season Two’s Most Ridiculous Soundtrack Choices, RankedSeason two doubles down on the Netflix series’ more-is-more approach to music cues, and sometimes it works — and sometimes it definitely doesn’t.
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    The Umbrella Academy Season-Finale Recap: Back to the FutureIt turns out mucking around with the past can have some real consequences after all.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: The Ghost With the MostJust when it seems like this season may turn into a full-on retread of season one, an unlikely hero emerges.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: How to Dismantle an Atomic BombFive comes up with one last Hail Mary that stretches Umbrella Academy’s conception of time travel straight into Looper territory.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Tick-Tock on the ClockIt’s a (somewhat arbitrary) race against time!
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Be Our GuestThe second Hargreeves family reunion in as many episodes proves that no matter how old you get, you’re never free from what your parents did to you.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: State of the ReunionAt long last, the Umbrella Academy is ready to reassemble.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: I Was Made for Lovin’ YouMaybe this do-over will be what Vanya needed all along.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: The Good FightIt’s starting to feel like it’s going to take a very, very long time to get the Hargreeves all back together again.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Father Knows BestWill all this foreknowledge make the Hargreeves children weaker, or stronger?
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    The Umbrella Academy Season Premiere Recap: Apocalypse SoonWith the Hargreeves siblings scattered to the winds, fate (and Five) are already conspiring to bring them all back together again — and soon.
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    BoJack Horseman Series Finale Recap: Hollywoob EndingThe time has come to say goodbye to a very complicated horseman, and to all the other characters we’ve seen evolve over the course of this series.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: That Sinking FeelingIt was always going to end like this, right?
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: A Horse With No NameA long-lost connection gets in touch to relieve BoJack of the life raft he’s been clinging to: his legacy.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: Seeking a Friend for the End of the SeriesWith pretty much the entire world against him, BoJack takes up with Vance Waggoner for a predictably bleak series of misadventures.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: On the RecordThe time has come for everyone—BoJack, his victims, his closest friends, and the audience itself—to reckon with the reality of BoJack’s past.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: The Truth Will OutWith BoJack’s worst deeds finally coming back to haunt him, Princess Carolyn and Diane perform an audit of their friend’s darkest moments.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: Write What You KnowWe take a Chicago-Style deep dive into Diane Nguyen as she self-flagellates over her memoir.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: School DazeProfessor BoJack acclimates to his new life at Wesleyan just in time for a voice from the past to turn it back upside down.
  37. toss a coin to your witcher
    The Witcher’s Geralt Is a Hero for the Gig EconomyOur favorite freelance witcher spends the entire season underpaid, underappreciated, and underemployed. Who can relate?
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    The Witcher Season One: A Straightforward ChronologyThe series’ convoluted three-timeline structure can get confusing, and fast, so here’s a helpful guide to the season’s biggest moments, in order.
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    Let’s Discuss The Witcher’s Biggest SpoilersThese are the many baffling moments Netflix deemed too significant to share before the series began. Do they live up to the hype?
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    The Witcher Season-Finale Recap: Under SiegeThe final episode of the season is surprisingly light on the witcher himself, but makes up for it in magical spectacle.
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    The Witcher Recap: Life During WartimeThe era of the sword and the axe is nigh, as the series returns to where it started to begin bringing its three timelines together.
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    The Witcher Recap: Imagine DragonsIf The Witcher is going to really dig into this world, it probably needs to start establishing what’s interesting about Geralt’s enemies.
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    The Witcher Recap: I Dream of DjinnOur two most dynamic protagonists — Geralt and Yennefer — meet for the first time in an episode that’s light on plot and heavy on sexual tension.
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    The Witcher Recap: Wedding CrashersA social contract known as the Law of Surprise lives up to its name.
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    The Witcher Recap: The Belle of the BallAs Geralt’s latest gig finds him in the middle of a whodunit, Yennefer takes drastic measures to grab power on her own terms.
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    The Witcher Recap: Do You Believe in Magic?While Geralt is on a fun little adventure with an obnoxious but charming new friend, a parallel plot introduces us to the young sorceress Yennefer.
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    The Witcher Series Premiere Recap: I Put a Spell on YouMeet Geralt of Rivia, a witcher just doing his best to not kill anybody despite everybody wanting him to kill somebody.
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    BoJack Horseman Midseason Finale Recap: Collateral DamageAgainst all odds, BoJack has changed, but the wreckage he’s left in his wake is about to catch up to him.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: Peace Be With YouBoJack’s decision to live a newly generous and relatively selfless life sparks a series of theoretical happy endings.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: Renal RecallA signature Todd mess-around adventure is also an acknowledgment of one of the series’ biggest blind spots.
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