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Lucy Moderatz (Sandra Bullock) spends her days behind a glass window in a Chicago Transit Authority booth and her…
Caroline Siede
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Contributor, The A.V. Club. Caroline Siede is a pop culture critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. Her interests include superhero movies, feminist theory, and Jane Austen novels.
Dec 2 2019
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“The Wrath Of Rama Khan” feels like a solid midseason finale to a season we didn’t watch. Sure, the battle for…
Nov 22 2019
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If you’d told the average moviegoer back in 2010 that by the end of the decade people would be clamoring for the…
Nov 21 2019
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One of the strangest things about The Crown’s third season is the way Helena Bonham Carter’s Margaret receded into…
Nov 21 2019
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About two-thirds of the way through “Imbroglio,” there’s a scene where Anne drives along singing to David Bowie’s …
Nov 20 2019
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For an episode that opens with a Nazi sympathizer coughing up blood into a toilet, “Dangling Man” turns out to be a…
Nov 20 2019
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“Moondust” seems like an episode specifically designed to send me into a Crown-related existential crisis. On the…
Nov 19 2019
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“So Long, Marianne” is the perfect case study for the ways in which This Is Us’ love of twists too often distracts…
Nov 19 2019
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It’s wild to think about what it would be like for the royal family to watch The Crown, a show that digs into lives…
Nov 19 2019
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Given Peter Morgan’s clear interest in stories about men and all-male environments, it’s curious that he’s spent so…
Nov 18 2019
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Reading back over my reviews of the first two seasons of The Crown, I’m not sure I was ever quite able to…
Nov 18 2019
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The Crown’s boldest choice is its commitment to being a firmly episodic series. It’s a huge strength, one that makes…
Nov 18 2019
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As the lead-up to its midseason finale, Supergirl delivers an episode so overstuffed that the reveal of Leviathan…
Nov 17 2019
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Princess Margaret-centric episodes tend to bring out the best and worst of what The Crown can do. They’re fun,…
Nov 17 2019
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If any other TV show ever decides to recast its entire ensemble between seasons, the showrunners would do well to…
Nov 12 2019
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On paper, “Sorry” is exactly the kind of present day Big Three-focused episode I usually dread. So imagine my…
Nov 11 2019
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Producing 22 episodes of genre TV a season is no easy feat. And that makes me wonder why the Supergirl writers are ma…
Nov 6 2019
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The power of live theater comes from an audience and a group of performers investing in a collective imagined world…
Nov 5 2019
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“The Dinner And The Date” delivers exactly what I wish last week’s episode had: An hour of This Is Us that zeroes in…
Nov 4 2019
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With remakes of The Lion King, Beauty And The Beast, and Aladdin topping the box office despite their rather dubious…