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    ‘She Was So Committed to the Dark Side That I Was a Little Bit Worried’How My Best Friend’s Wedding messed with Julia Roberts’s image and changed rom-coms for good.
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    The Witcher Season-Finale Recap: The Devil Made Me Do ItA jam-packed finale manages to have a little of everything, including one good twist.
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    The Witcher Recap: Must Be the Season of the WitchThe true villain of the season makes their big move.
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    The Witcher Recap: Reunited and It Feels So GoodGeralt, Yennefer, and Ciri briefly form their long-awaited group chat.
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    The Witcher Recap: The Time of ContemptCiri is on her way to becoming a witcher, but she seems fated for much more.
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    The Witcher Recap: Make New Friends But Keep the OldThe triumphant (and spicy) return of Jaskier!
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    The Witcher Recap: Don’t Tell Me What I Can’t DoCiri and Yennefer are hell-bent on saving themselves.
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    The Witcher Recap: Daddy Day KaerGeralt and Ciri make it “home,” but now what?
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    The Witcher Season-Premiere Recap: Tale As Old As TimeGeralt and Ciri have finally teamed up just in time for The Witcher’s all-time best monster fight.
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    Alex Hassell on the Immense Discomfort of Re-creating Cowboy Bebop’s Iconic Duel“There was the tightness of my trousers and then your legs start to cramp and it’s like, ‘Have we got it?’”
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    Cowboy Bebop Recap: See You Space CowboyAt long last, Spike’s past and present have collided.
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    Cowboy Bebop Recap: Married to the MobWe were always going to get a flashback episode eventually, right?
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    Cowboy Bebop Recap: The Tears of a ClownOne of the more memorable villains in the original anime is no less unnerving in live-action.
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    Cowboy Bebop Recap: Are You My Mother?In which Faye is crowned our scam queen.
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    Cowboy Bebop Recap: Do Cowboys Dream of Electric Sheep?It’s time to dig into what makes Spike Spiegel tick.
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    Cowboy Bebop Recap: The Long Good-byeA classic noir episode with Jet Black is a fun exercise in style, but the whodunit plot is at times frustratingly obvious.
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    Cowboy Bebop Recap: Branching OutFaye is back!
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    Cowboy Bebop Recap: Hounds of LoveA goofy MacGuffin and lucrative bounty on Mars make for a fun episode.
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    Cowboy Bebop Recap: Everybody Comes to Ana’sThe prickly chemistry between Spike and Jet is one of Cowboy Bebop’s core strengths.
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    Cowboy Bebop Series-Premiere Recap: Three, Two, One, Let’s JamCowboy Bebop’s premiere is telling you what to expect from the Netflix series: blood, banter, and big bangs.
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    Netflix’s Expanded Witcher Universe Is Upon UsBoth a stand-alone story and a teaser for what’s ahead, the new Nightmare of the Wolf is a proof of concept for the Witcher franchise’s next phase.
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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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