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A sea lion in a viral video was probably just messing around with its food. Researchers say sea lions don't care enough about humans to want to slap one of us with an octopus.

The third-season premiere of NBC's The Good Place added a couple of characters, posed some new questions, and pondered a fast-food miracle.

Murphy Brown is back, and although it's good to see the unapologetically loudmouthed lead character again, it's not clear that the show is equipped to deal with 2018.

In what may be his final screen performance, Robert Redford amiably cakewalks through David Lowery's old-school, old-fashioned cops-and-robbers yarn.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead's bracingly mercurial performance drives this film about a New York stand-up who moves to Los Angeles for her career — and to sort out her private life.

Reinaldo Marcus Green's exquisite drama examines, from three perspectives, the aftermath of the slaying of an unarmed black man; the film offers "neither unalloyed despair nor implausible hope."

Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for a sexual assault in 2004. His conviction marks the rise of the #MeToo movement as well as the downfall of an African-American icon.

This year's crop of broadcast network pilots brings us a medical show that suggests that if a man comes into a public hospital with the right kind of moxie and the right musical cues, he can fix it.

Not everything works with Netflix's offbeat comedy-drama weaving the story of a mad scientist with the dreams of two of his subjects. But lead Emma Stone and director Cary Fukunaga are in top form.

Now that enough people have seen the second season of Netflix's comedy/drama/true crime parody, your weekend will be full of people comparing it unfavorably to season one. Here's why they're wrong.