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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.
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    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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    BoJack Horseman Recap: They Tried to Make Me Exit Rehab, I Said No, No, NoWhile BoJack manufactures reasons to stay ensconced in the warm hug of the rehab clinic, his friends deal with dramatic problems on the outside.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: But Is There a Mrs. Peanutbutter?The truth was always going to come out eventually — and just as inevitably, it was going to come out at the worst possible time.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: Mergers and AcquisitionsWhile Diane takes a break from L.A., GirlCroosh gets folded into a massive, incoherent-sounding media company.
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    BoJack Horseman Recap: Why Princess Carolyn Still Can’t Have It AllPrincess Carolyn got what she wanted, which means it’s time for her to realize she doesn’t know what she wants.
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    BoJack Horseman Season-Premiere Recap: Rinse and RepeatThe final season kicks off with some new and hopeful signs that BoJack’s patterns of self-destruction may finally be breaking.
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    Rosa Salazar Has No Answers About Undone and Likes It That Way“You always want to be in the fluctuating space of that question. The desire for answers. And the silence that follows.”
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    The Dogs in The Last of Us Part II Are Going to Kill YouAs are many other things, based on this unnerving first look at the highly anticipated sequel.
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    Undone Finale Recap: Does That Make Me Crazy?The season draws to a close with plenty of answers and at least one big question hanging over the series.
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    Undone Recap: Alma at the WeddingThe battle between the demands of Alma’s day-to-day life and those of her dead father come to a head, inevitably, at Becca’s wedding.
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    Undone Recap: Would You Light My Candle?An episode spent outside of Alma’s very unique headspace shows us how she looks to the rest of the world — and frankly, it’s not always great.
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    Undone Recap: Coming CleanAlma’s ability can now break down the barriers between her and other people as easily as it can break down the barriers of reality and time.
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    Undone Recap: Jedi Mind TricksJacob’s advice for how Alma should navigate her superpower, while practical, is also terrible advice for living a fulfilling human life.
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    Undone Recap: Snap Back to RealityWhile Alma’s current-day life passes uneasily, her relationship with her mysterious father is coming into sharper focus.
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    Undone Recap: Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out OfAn absolute dazzler of an episode embraces the full potential of rotoscope animation while deepening the series’ central mystery.
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    Undone Series-Premiere Recap: WreckedRaphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy’s terrific new series keeps its cards close to the vest in a deceptively realist first episode.
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    The Hardest Effect I Ever Pulled Off42 filmmakers, cinematographers, and effects artists on making the impossible happen.
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