Donald Glover will help bring to life one of the most obscure — and probably the funkiest — villains Spider-Man has ever faced in a new movie centered around the Hypno-Hustler. Glover is set to star in, and produce, the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with Eddie Murphy’s son, …
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A review of the Atlanta series finale, “It Was All a Dream,” coming up just as soon as I tell you how many seasons of Homeboys in Outer Space there were… The thing about Atlanta is that the series is so fluid, and so unpredictable in terms of subject and …
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Atlanta, one of the great shows of this or any other era, came to a close last night with a series finale titled “It Was All a Dream” — a fitting name for a series that so often has blurred the line between dreams and waking life. The show’s ability …
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A review of this week’s Atlanta, “Andrew Wyeth, Alfred’s World,” coming up just as soon as I blame DeSoto for this bullshit… After a one-week detour into extremely goofy territory, Atlanta returns to the main cast — and, for that matter, to the woods — for “Andrew Wyeth, Alfred’s World.” …
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A review of this week’s Atlanta, “The Goof Who Sat By the Door,” coming up just as soon as I draw a pair of gloves dapping over 5,000 times… BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Late in the first season of Atlanta, we got “B.A.N.,” an episode that — excuse me, I have something in …
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A review of this week’s Atlanta, “Snipe Hunt,” coming up just as soon as I prank my daughter… Early in “Snipe Hunt,” as Earn and Van are setting up the campsite where the two of them and Lottie will celebrate Lottie’s birthday, Van realizes that Earn bought a tent that’s …
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A review of this week’s Atlanta, “Crank Dat Killer,” coming up just as soon as I have a safe farm… It feels strange to describe an episode like this, built around an active shooter situation, as a relatively light one for Atlanta, yet dammit if “Crank Dat Killer” doesn’t feel …
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When Peacock announced plans to fulfill Community’s “Six seasons and a movie” promise last month, a few key cast members were absent from the reunion plans, notably Donald Glover and Yvette Nicole Brown. While fans of the cult series assumed that artist also known as Childish Gambino was likely too …
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A review of this week’s Atlanta, “Work Ethic!” coming up just as soon as I develop a tolerance to grits… The last time Atlanta put Donald Glover into heavy prosthetic makeup, it was to play the unnerving title character of the incredible “Teddy Perkins” episode. That one was a commentary …
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A review of this week’s Atlanta, “Light Skinned-ed,” coming up just as soon as I take the Shmurda Exit… Earn’s parents, Riley (Isaiah Whitlock Jr.) and Gloria (Myra Lucretia Taylor), appear briefly in the series premiere, mainly to establish that Earn is on bad terms with them due to his …
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