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It’s hard to beat HBO’s track record for landing the plane, so to speak. The network that popularized the narrative-driven format of what we now call “prestige TV” proved that audiences were ready to consider television series as whole works, rather than a collection of episodes. Thus, it’s no surprise they’ve produced several of the…

There was a lot of great television released in 2020, but one show defied expectations and made a larger cultural impact still felt to this day. That show is “The Queen’s Gambit,” Netflix’s adaptation of Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel about an orphaned chess prodigy named Beth Harmon, played by the ever-alluring Anya Taylor-Joy. Her performance…

There was a lot of great television released in 2020, but one show defied expectations and made a larger cultural impact still felt to this day. That show is “The Queen’s Gambit,” Netflix’s adaptation of Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel about an orphaned chess prodigy named Beth Harmon, played by the ever-alluring Anya Taylor-Joy. Her performance…

Netflix has given the world a lot of good things. The streamer famously saved “Breaking Bad” from an early cancellation due to its huge rise in viewership the moment it debuted on the platform. Meanwhile, shows like “Lucifer” and “Manifest” outright came back from the dead thanks to Netflix giving them new seasons.

There’s a new mysterious limited series burning up the Netflix Top 10 that everyone will be talking about this fall. Just in time for Halloween, the streaming service delivers some much-needed spooks courtesy of the thriller Below, which centers on a small coastal town being terrorized by a massive sea creature with origins that date…

Season 3 of country music star and actress Reba McEntire’s hit NBC sitcom “Happy’s Place” is right around the corner, so fans will soon be returning to the beloved hangout with Bobbie (McEntire), Isabella (Belissa Escobedo), and the rest of the staff as the two co-leads keep building their sisterly bond. One of the reasons it’s…

When it comes to fandom, no series knows it better than Brooklyn Nine-Nine; after all, it was saved by the passionate fans who convinced NBC to pick up the former Fox comedy. So, it makes perfect sense that the series creator Dan Goor and cast would celebrate the show’s impact with a special reunion panel…

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Only four years passed between the end of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and the beginning of “The Legend of Korra.” The gap to the third series in the franchise, “Avatar: Seven Havens,” has been three times as long, but the wait is finally over. In that 12-year interim, the realm of American animation has exploded,…