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'Game of Thrones' Q&A: Natalie Dormer on Playing 'the Kate Middleton of Westeros' | ARTICLE
Step aside, Lannisters: There's a new player in town. Last night's season premiere made it clear that Lady Margaery Tyrell, the gorgeous new fiancée of King Joffrey (and the widow of his closeted rebel uncle, Renly),...
April 1, 2013 11:55 AM ET -
'Game of Thrones' Premiere Recap: One Giant Leap | ARTICLE
Well, that was fun, wasn't it? Granted, this is kind of an odd thing to say about a television program that featured graphic onscreen nipple mutilation and a house of 200 corpses. But as Game of Thrones literally...
March 31, 2013 10:05 PM ET -
'Game of Thrones' Cheat Sheet: What You Need to Know for Season Three | ARTICLE
If the plot of Game of Thrones were a Facebook relationship status, it'd be, "It's complicated." HBO's epic fantasy, based on the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels by George R.R. Martin, is...
March 27, 2013 12:10 PM ET -
Q&A: 'Game of Thrones' Insider Bryan Cogman on the Biggest Season Yet | ARTICLE
Game of Thrones fans, meet your man on the inside. Bryan Cogman's as diehard a devotee of A Song of Ice and Fire, the sprawling series of epic fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin upon which...
March 20, 2013 11:45 AM ET -
'Downton Abbey' Season Finale Recap: 'I Just Can't See a Happy Ending' | ARTICLE
So. That happened. Lots of other things happened, too, by the way. They kind of had to, seeing as how this movie-length episode (which originally aired in the U.K. not as the finale but as a traditional Christmas...
February 17, 2013 10:45 PM ET -
'Downton Abbey' Recap: You're Out | ARTICLE
All you really need to know about this week's double-sized episode of Downton Abbey you can learn from Cousin Rose – or, as I like to call her, "Cousin Oliver: Downton Edition." Less a character than...
February 10, 2013 11:05 PM ET -
'Downton Abbey' Recap: 'The World Isn't Going Your Way' | ARTICLE
The costumes were the black color of mourning. The outdoor light was cold and gray. The Crawley women's pale faces were made up to look sickly, even ghostly, rather than porcelain-radiant. Even in raw visual terms, the...
February 3, 2013 10:05 PM ET -
'Downton Abbey' Recap: 'Like Too Many Women Before Her' | ARTICLE
The thing about comfort food is that when someone serves you a piping hot plate of it week after week, you never suspect that one day they're going to grab it and smash it into your face. Downton...
January 27, 2013 10:05 PM ET -
'Downton Abbey' Recap: 'We All Live in a Harsh World' | ARTICLE
Never forget: Before his burning-down-the-house act in tonight's episode of Downton Abbey, fiery Irish rebel Tom Branson's great act of protest was supposed to be dumping kitchen slop on a general's head. Downton's long painted Branson as...
January 20, 2013 10:05 PM ET -
'Downton Abbey' Recap: Always the Kitchen Maid, Never the Bride | ARTICLE
For once, Lady Edith Crawley is the center of attention. Literally: In the opening scene the camera revolves around her in a great sweeping circle, a big goofy grin plastered on her face as she watches her...
January 13, 2013 10:05 PM ET -
'Downton Abbey' Premiere Recap: Your Kiss Is On My List | ARTICLE
If you want to know why I love Downton Abbey – and let's be honest here: I love Downton Abbey – its third season premiere has you covered with a single kiss. The staging was impeccably considered. Dark-suited,...
January 6, 2013 11:05 PM ET -
'Downton Abbey' Season Three Cheat Sheet | ARTICLE
Ready to reenter the world of the classiest soap opera in television history? When Downton Abbey begins its third season here in the States on PBS this Sunday – it's already aired in the U.K., leaving the...
January 4, 2013 11:00 AM ET -
'Homeland' Finale Recap: Fool Me Once | ARTICLE
Where do you even begin? Alphabetically by character, I suppose. Because yeah, for every one thing that worked in "The Choice," Homeland's woeful second season finale, there were three things that didn't. Yeah, my jaw dropped from the...
December 17, 2012 7:30 AM ET -
13 Things You Need to Know About 'The Hobbit' | ARTICLE
It's the prequel to one trilogy and the start of another, but The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey can feel like damn near that many movies all by itself. You're watching an adaptation of a book by J.R.R....
December 13, 2012 12:00 PM ET -
'Homeland' Recap: Tunnel Vision | ARTICLE
What's the matter with Homeland? It's not just the wonky plotting of the past few episodes, tonight's being no exception. I mean, tearing at the logical inconsistencies of hugely successful and acclaimed action-adventure films is a critical...
December 10, 2012 8:15 AM ET -
'Homeland' Recap: Heart of Darkness | ARTICLE
Maybe it's time to give up on the Homeland that was and enjoy the Homeland that is. If the show is this determined to abandon its roots as a character study that examines the shifting allegiances and...
December 3, 2012 9:45 AM ET -
'Homeland' Recap: Hold Your Fire | ARTICLE
Sometimes the best bombs are the ones that don't go off. After weeks spent trying to shock us – and succeeding only to the extent that yeah, clumsiness from this show is pretty shocking – Homeland was...
November 25, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
'Homeland' Recap: Dark Shadows | ARTICLE
Episodes of Homeland shoot themselves in the foot with their final scenes so regularly you could set your watch to them by now. Even so, I've got to hand it to them: The end of this episode...
November 19, 2012 9:15 AM ET -
'Homeland' Recap: Kiss and Tell | ARTICLE
Last week's episode shot Homeland's credibility and quality full of holes, but it turns out the desire to find out how the show will plug them up again is damn near irresistible. Much to my surprise, following...
November 11, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
'Homeland' Recap: Blown Away | ARTICLE
Watching Peter Quinn struggle to stay alive, shot in the gut and bleeding to death on the floor of a Gettysburg tailor-shop-cum-bomb-factory that had just seen CIA/FBI taskforce gunned down in cold blood by al Qaeda stormtroopers,...
November 4, 2012 11:05 PM ET
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