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With a Spectacular Finale, Watchmen Accomplished the Near Impossible
Somehow, against all odds, Watchmen worked.Well, it more than just “worked.” To use Laurie Blake’s favorite word, Watchmen was pretty f—king perfect.The HBO drama from Damon Lindelof based on the acclaimed comic book miniseries of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons took the source material and expanded it with a world full […]
Continue readingThe Second Act of Jean Smart: How She Went From Sweet on Designing Women to Salty on Watchmen
For the last 40 or so years, Jean Smart has been many different people.She was the naïve and sweet Charlene on Designing Women; the serial killer Aileen Wuornos; Frasier Crane’s old high school crush Lana Gardner; Melanie Bird, a psychiatrist to a powerful mutant on Legion; Fargo’s Floyd Gerhart, the head of a crime family; […]
Continue readingDesigning Women and the Latest TV Reboots, Remakes and Revivals in the Works
Everything old will become new again if the TV industry has its way.The trend of TV reboots, remakes and revivals is not going away anytime soon thanks to the success of revivals like Will & Grace, Roseanne (before the implosion), and reboots like Queer Eye and Hawaii Five-0.The latest show to possibly return from the […]
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