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Arrested Development. The show that wasn’t popular until it was off television, and then got picked up with a strange format on Netflix (which was later remastered into regular looking episodes). And now we have the first part of Season 5, and it’s full of the standard shenanigans and banana stands. Forget, but never forgive. …

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On the continuing quest for 1,000 Netflix comes a comedy featuring Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love), Vanessa Bayer (SNL), and Phoebe Robinson (a writer on Portlandia). Harper (Jacobs) is sent to Spain for work, to help “woo” some new clients for the media marketing company she works at. Her two best friends (Bayer and Robinson) buy their own …

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Netflix is on a quest, a quest for 1,000 original TV shows and movies by the end of 2018. And that quest means that they will be releasing over 400 new pieces before the end of the year…which means they will be putting out a lot of bad stuff. This is not one of those. …

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After a riveting (and controversial) Season 1 of 13 Reasons Why, Season 2 starts right off with a PSA from the actors, telling people to go to 13reasonswhy.info if anyone needs help. These same PSAs are put at the end of each episode as the “Play Next Episode” pops up. Now to our story: It’s five months …

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This week were the Upfronts, the annual time when Networks present to advertisers and roll out their Fall lineups, and this is my early look at what I’m likely to watch! The list is fairly small, as the TV world is full of revivals that have 0 interest to me…and I am not sure how I’m …

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Two years after her last Netflix special, Baby Cobra, during which she was very pregnant…and now Ali makes her way back onto the stage for Hard Knock Wife, and not surprisingly, she’s pregnant again. She doesn’t waste any time getting into talking about her kid and being a new Mom, and all the experiences that come with …

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Harlan Coben has been known for years as a great writer, with Tell No One and Missing You, and now he’s taken his works to Netflix, with a brand new Original miniseries called: Safe, presenting a nice compact story in 8-episodes, without the fluff that too many shows have. Besides for Coben’s ability to draw people …

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The fifth installment of the David Letterman Netflix series, and it’s a good one. So far he’s had a President, an actor, an activist, and a musician…and now he goes to a comedian/actress/director Tina Fey, the funniest potential guest…the next and last one for this season will be Radio Shock Jock Howard Stern. Dave starts …

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John Mulaney heads to Radio City Music Hall for his latest standup special “Kid Gorgeous”. I have always have mixed thoughts on John, loving him in Oh, Hello on Broadway, but hating his sitcom on FOX. Well now he is out there on stage, doing what he’s best at: standup. Talking about he has always been …

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Adam Sandler has a contract with Netflix, and as they get released, they get better and better. It started with the terrible The Ridiculous 6, and then turned into typical Sandler movies with The Do-Over and Sandy Wexler. But as they get better we get Sandler teaming up with Chris Rock for a fantastic comedy. Long …

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