Season 4 premiere of ‘The Good Place’ was good
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On Thursday night, the bittersweet final first episode aired on NBC and signaled that this farewell season will indeed be a fun one.
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Picks of the Week: Social horror films, poetry of ballet, music biopics
This has been an exciting week for music releases and Thursday is the perfect time to catch up with it all. Lizzo released her newest single, “Tempo,” featuring Missy Elliot on Mar. 20.
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Why today’s media should take lessons from ‘The Good Place’
Shows that try to mirror the real world often glamorize or demonize it, but “The Good Place” just reflects it. Nobody is perfectly good or irrevocably bad. That’s what makes it so difficult to coexist, but it’s also what makes it so important to try to be a good person.
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Maybe we are in ‘The Good Place’ after all: Season 2 review
If you’re not watching “The Good Place” already, stop reading this and go watch it immediately. It’s streaming on Hulu. Go.
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The Daily Californian Arts Awards: Television of 2017
Whether on our laptops or in our living rooms, television has always been a space of escape, in which our ideologies are reflected back to us.
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Why ‘A Bad Moms Christmas’ reminds me of how inaccurately Hollywood views women
This movie perpetuates humiliating and discriminatory stereotypes of mothers for the sake of easy jokes. Every scene is like wading through a pool of debris of poor decisions by the writers. Lucas and Moore pick the low-hanging fruit that they know will get a laugh from audiences who believe these stereotypes to be true.
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‘A Bad Moms Christmas’ singlehandedly cancels Christmas with sheer awfulness
The underlying systemic issues along with all the content problems make “A Bad Moms Christmas” a Christmas catastrophe that even Santa himself couldn’t save.
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‘CHIPS’ is buddy-cop comedy gone stale
But it’s this frustratingly juvenile tone and repeated employment of a low-brow, penis-joke brand of comedy that make “CHIPS” such a formulaic, exhausting experience.
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‘Bad Moms’ celebrates imperfection
From the writers of “The Hangover” comes “Bad Moms” — a ridiculously funny, lively tale of overworked moms who reach their breaking point, thus going on wild, self-indulgent escapades to relieve themselves of the stresses of day-to-day responsibilities. In a spectrum of summer blockbuster comedies, this film is a smart
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Disney’s animated film ‘Frozen’ shatters the ice ceiling
Jennifer Lee, screenwriter for “Wreck-It Ralph,” has become the first woman in more than 76 years and 50 animated films to direct a Disney animated feature. Her appointment was met with great fanfare, and she hasn’t disappointed — “Frozen” is Disney’s best film since “The Princess and the Frog.” Disney’s
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