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The first installment of this Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House, was packed with plenty of good, ghostly scares - but it lagged in the middle, and whiffed the ending. Pop Culture Happy Hour Creepy Kids, A Dark Mansion And '80s Fashion: 'The Haunting Of Bly Manor' It's a comedy of sorts where even Batman is a bit of a doofus, featuring Harley leading a team of misfit baddies who struggle for recognition as Gotham City's leading villains, redefining adult-oriented superhero stories in the process. Originally created for the streaming service DC Universe, it now lives on HBO Max, where Big Bang Theory alum Kaley Cuoco voices the Joker's former girlfriend as an unpredictable, profanity-slinging romantic who resists the ex who exploited her. Given the sheer tonnage of live action superhero shows on TV, it's notable that the most gonzo, subversive, hilarious, action packed, explicit and entertaining take on the DC comics universe is actually this animated series. McNamara went on to co-write 2018's The Favourite, and if you've seen that film, you know what to expect here - yes, bustles and corsets, wigs and snuffboxes, but also crisp ripostes, lacerating insults and dialogue that sizzles with withering wit. The Great was created by Tony McNamara, based on his 2008 play. Fanning is terrific as an idealistic (and self-satisfied) would-be social reformer, while Hoult's Peter is a nightmare - a sociopathic boor poured into a pair of tight leather pants.
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Pop Culture Happy Hour Huzzah! We're Russian To Finish 'The Great'īilled as "An Occasionally True Story," this series about young Catherine (Elle Fanning) and her ill-fated marriage to Emperor Peter of Russia (Nicholas Hoult) is stuffed with gleefully ahistorical elements that'll send students of Russian history into aneurysms. Glen Weldon, Aisha Harris, Eric Deggans The fact that it's all set against the very real, and immensely worrying, potential downfall of the show's beating heart - Rhea Seehorn's astonishing performance as Jimmy's girlfriend Kim - invests us that much deeply in the show's dangerous and duplicitous world. We finally saw the series' two disparate plot threads - Jimmy's and Mike's (Jonathan Banks) - come together, a richly satisfying consummation for those viewers who've complained about the series' pacing, and who've longed for those two characters to share the screen. In its penultimate season, the transformation of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) into Saul Goodman - a criminal lawyer who's actually a criminal lawyer - is just about complete. The story it's telling is so very much its own - by turns gritty and funny, melancholic and viciously violent. This outstanding AMC series long ago rendered pointless any comparisons to Breaking Bad, of which it is technically a prequel.
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In alphabetical order, here's our best of 2020 - and we know it's a long list, so you can use these alphabetical links to skip around: B, C, D, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, Q, T, W. It's a powerful example of how much quality entertainment was available this year, even after coronavirus lockdowns shut down productions and upended release schedules.
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That's why our list crosses a lot of boundaries, including projects technically released as feature films. So when our team of four critics sat down to figure out what we liked most onscreen this year, we each had a lot of stuff on our lists no one else did. It blurred lines between genres, platforms and story forms, while also encouraging us to develop our own, deep rabbit holes of favorite media. It has been a momentous year for everything we consider TV.Ī pandemic, civil rights reckoning, streaming war and presidential election shook up the industry in a dozen different ways. All four critics agreed that Michaela Coel's series I May Destroy You was "one of the most exciting of 2020."