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If you love Ted Lasso, Bill Lawrence's new Apple TV+ comedy Shrinking is for you. Created by Lawrence, Brett Goldstein, and Jason Segel, the delightful series centers on a grieving therapist (Segel) who takes on the role of a “psychological vigilante" when he begins advising his patients with the unfiltered truth, which results in unforeseen...
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A Charlie Brown Christmas is a seminal holiday classic. Charles Schulz's beloved 1965 special follows good ol' Charlie Brown as he discovers the true meaning of Christmas. A touching story that somehow mixes festive music ("Linus and Lucy" still slaps) with seasonal depression, A Charlie Brown Christmas is a pleasant reminder about the soothing...
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Led by Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway is a slow-burn tearjerker about a young soldier returning home from Afghanistan after suffering a brain injury. The Apple TV+ drama follows Lawrence’s Lynsey as she moves back into her mother’s home for recovery. Desperate to regain normalcy, Lynsey borrows a truck and quickly lands a...
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Many celebrity documentaries offer interesting insights, but none, in my opinion, compare to Selena Gomez's new film My Mind And Me. Now streaming on Apple TV+, the incredibly raw, heartfelt story of her success is paralleled with the personal battles she endured along the way. Beginning with her time on Disney, Gomez speaks candidly about the...
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Apple TV+'s new dark comedic thriller, Bad Sisters, fills me with borderline unhealthy levels of FOMO. The mini-series, set in an around Dublin, opens with news that a man named John Paul (Claes Bang) is dead. (I don't have FOMO over this part. Just bear with me.) We learn he's the late husband of Grace (Anne-Marie Duff), and that Grace's sisters, ...
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Cooper Raiff has blossomed into a virtuosic writer/director. The multi-hyphenate's debut film Shithouse was one of my favorite movies of 2020 and his newest offering, Cha Cha Real Smooth, is an earnest exploration of post-college aimlessness. Starring Dakota Johnson, Vanessa Burghardt, Evan Assante, Leslie Mann, Brad Garrett, Raúl Castillo, and...
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Once upon a time...Alison Brie played a ghost trying to solve her own murder, and Issa Rae played a women who is literally disappearing. If Black Mirror and GLOW had a love child, it's Apple TV+'s newest anthology series, Roar. Each episode features a dark fairytale-esque story about different women's experiences navigating society. It's...
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Apple TV+ is on a roll. Between The Afterparty and Severance, the streaming service has delivered two of the most entertaining shows of 2022. Dan Erickson's fascinating, destabilizing thriller centers on the enigmatic Lumon Industries, a mysterious company whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories...
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Don't you dare sleep on Apple TV+. Sure, we all know about Ted Lasso, but the streamer is also home to a host of critically-acclaimed comedies, including Mythic Quest, Schmigadoon!, and The Afterparty. Created by Christopher Miller, the eight-episode Rashomon-style whodunit centers on a murder mystery at a high school reunion. Each uniquely...
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