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‘TV’s Top 5’: ‘Hacks’ Creators on Bringing Jean Smart’s Stand-Up Dream to Life
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Ewan McGregor in Netflix’s ‘Halston’: TV Review
Ewan McGregor plays 1970s and 1980s design superstar Halston in a Netflix miniseries treatment courtesy of Ryan Murphy.
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FX’s ‘Pride’: TV Review
The six-part docuseries chronicles the LGBTQ+ rights movement from the 1950s on, turning each episode over to a different filmmaker with a different artistic approach.
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Critic’s Notebook: Elon Musk’s ‘SNL’ Debut Is More Forgettable Than Controversial
After weeks of controversy over whether he should have been hosting 'Saturday Night Live' at all, Elon Musk (and his mother) took the stage, along with musical guest Miley Cyrus
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‘TV’s Top 5’: ‘Hacks’ Creators on Bringing Jean Smart’s Stand-Up Dream to Life
Welcome to Episode 120 of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter‘s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the…
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Ewan McGregor in Netflix’s ‘Halston’: TV Review
Ewan McGregor plays 1970s and 1980s design superstar Halston in a Netflix miniseries treatment courtesy of Ryan Murphy.
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FX’s ‘Pride’: TV Review
The six-part docuseries chronicles the LGBTQ+ rights movement from the 1950s on, turning each episode over to a different filmmaker with a different artistic approach.
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Critic’s Notebook: Elon Musk’s ‘SNL’ Debut Is More Forgettable Than Controversial
After weeks of controversy over whether he should have been hosting 'Saturday Night Live' at all, Elon Musk (and his mother) took the stage, along with musical guest Miley Cyrus
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‘The Crime of the Century’: TV Review
Prolific documentarian Alex Gibney turns his attentions to the opioid crisis in a four-hour HBO documentary.
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‘Jupiter’s Legacy’: TV Review
Josh Duhamel and Leslie Bibb star in the Netflix adaptation of Mark Millar's comic book series about a dysfunctional superhero family.
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‘The Underground Railroad’: TV Review
Barry Jenkins tackles Colson Whitehead's heralded novel about a slave's literal and spiritual journey toward freedom in this 10-part Amazon limited series.
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‘Dirty Tricks’: Film Review | Hot Docs 2021
Director Daniel Sivan examines a cheating scandal that rocked the world of elite competitive bridge, exposing that the world of elite competitive bridge exists.
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‘TV’s Top 5’: ‘Pose’ Creator on the End of His Barrier-Breaking Hit
Steven Canals joins hosts Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg for a wide-ranging discussion about the FX ballroom drama during this week's podcast, which also includes a May TV preview.
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 4: TV Review
Elisabeth Moss' June faces big changes, while the acclaimed actress goes behind the camera for the first time, in another intense season of Hulu's Emmy-winning Margaret Atwood adaptation.
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Critic’s Notebook: Oscar Producers’ Big Gambles Yield Wildly Mixed Results
The production team led by Steven Soderbergh had a new location in Union Station and made big changes to the telecast, several of which failed to pay off — in one case, spectacularly so.
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‘TV’s Top 5’: ‘Shadow and Bone’ Creator on Bringing Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse to Netflix
Showrunner Eric Heisserer joins hosts Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg to discuss his journey to the streamer's YA fantasy realm in this week's podcast, which also features a discussion about the…
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