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‘Fargo’ remake brings on Billy Bob Thornton as villain ♛
With FX’s new series “Fargo,” a like-minded of🍌fspring of filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 masterpiece of heavꦉy weather, heavier murder and hilariously mannered Midwestern accents, writer/showrunner Noah Hawley had...
When L꧂ong Island lo🤡cals spied on British soldiers
AMC’s new suspense drama “Turn” is about the close-knit band of patriotic spies dubbed the Culper Ring, who effectively changed the course of theꦕ Revolutionary War. But ideally, for these...
'Masters of Sex' teaches women not to fake it
Sex sells and we know it e🌸ntertains, but can it inform at the same time? That’s the hope behind Showtime’s new drama “Masters of Sex,” about the ground-breaking research into.ꦐ..
Playing a shameless ex-con, Jon Voight has the year’s best role ♏on ‘Ray Donovan’
While the title character on Showtime’s hﷺit series “Ray Donovan” struggles with how to be a man of conscience, his father — ex-con Mickey, a hedonist gangster — shows how...
Liev✅ Schreiber: Mr. fix it 🍷
Tony Award-winning actor Liev Schre🔯iber has always thought of New York theater as his comfort zone. But now that he’s spent🐲 a grueling few months starring in a TV series...
Fire and Ice
For the myriad characters caught up in the power struggles dramatized on HBO’s hit series “Game of Thrones,” the challenges are daunting: raising an army, winni💜ng battles, simply surviving from...
Spy who came in fromꩵ the col💙d
On the new Cinemax ori🅰ginal series “Hunted,” globe-trotting spy Sam Hunter has a lot on her plate: deceiving bad men, killing some of them, and after she’s left for dead...
Patriot games
Few TV series last year had the water-cooler impact of Sh🥃owtime’s “Homeland,” a nail-biting, breathless excursion into the politics and paranoia of the nation’s security apparatus that quickly became the...
Comedy's new star
If you ever were to spot Mindy Kaling in a huddle with Tina Fey and Lena Dunham, here is what they’re talking about: sleep deprivation. Kaling, like Fey (“30 Rock”)...ꦕ
Sibling revelry
Fox’s new sitcom “Ben & Kate” is about that rarely explored relationship: the broღther and sister, that lifelong bond that can be by turns frustrating, inconvenient and yet unexpectedly moving....
'Boss' lady
Actress Sanaa Lathan may not be a conjurer, but she could be forgiven for be🌜lieving in the power to make things happen from the comfort of her couch. “I’ve been...
The wheel deal
Sun🎐dance Channel is calling them “Push Girls.” But it would be a mistake to assume the four beautiful🦋, charismatic and outspoken Los Angeles women who star in this new reality...
Winning the 'Game'
Scottish actor Richard Madden has spent most of the second season of HBO’s hit series “Game of Thrones” in leadership mode. His Robb Stark, son of thﷺe slain Lord of...
AMC promises Rosie Larsen's murderer will be found in season 2 of 'The Killing'
Soon after the hourlong crime drama “The Killing” premiered last spring on AMC, it seemed very clear why the sho🅰w had caught on with viewers. The central murder of Seattle...
Straight to hell
ꦜ In the post-Civil War world of AMC’s western series “Hell on Wheels,” t༒he historic building of the first transcontinental railroad is more than just a Herculean feat of engineering; it’s...
Time travel expert
💛 🧜 ‘We all wish for a back door in any situation when we’re up against it,” says Jason O’Mara, the Irish-born actor who stars as a time-travelling cop in “Terra Nova.”...
Let me entertain you
Few fall series have met with the kind of advance hand-wringing that NℱBC’s drama “The Playboy Club” has, from calls for a boycott (from feminist icon Gloria Steinem, a former...
Zooey
Zooey Deschanel is sitting in the lobby bar of the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles, leaning forward on a table with a hand to the side of her head,... 🐈
Phoebe gets ‘Therapy’
In the years since her career-making run as Phoebe on “Friends” ended, Lisa Kudrow had been routinely approached about creating something for the Internet, but always declined. And then cam🅺e...
Rise of Lafayette
Actor Nelsan Ellis, who plays Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s hit vampire se🧜ries “True Blood,” remembers what he’d hear in meetings when he was a Juilliard graduate trying to land roles...