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The collision of old and new money is on glitzy display in HBO's 'Gilded Age'

1:32pm January 21, 2022

by David Bianculli

Set in New York City the early 1880s, this ten-part costume drama is basically an American Downtown Abbey, complete with rich and poor, power brokers and household workers.

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Percy (Taliesin Jaffe), Pike (Ashley Johnson), Grog (Travis Willingham), Vex (Laura Bailey), Keyleth (Marisha Ray) Scanlan (Sam Riegel) and Vax (Liam O'Brien) have +2 swords, will travel.

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With 'The Legend of Vox Machina,' a Dungeons & Dragons web series rolls the dice

12:02pm January 21, 2022

by Glen Weldon

Just the Vox, ma'am: This animated fantasy series loses some of what makes the web series it's based on so richly rewarding, but those coming in fresh will get caught up in its characters and story.

Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as Marty and Wendy Byrde in Netflix's Ozark.

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Five questions that need answers in the final 'Ozark' season

4:42pm January 20, 2022

by Linda Holmes

Netflix's popular crime series is about to drop the first half of its last season. We look at five questions that hang over these seven episodes, and the seven more that will follow.

Carrie Coon plays Bertha Russell in HBO's The Gilded Age.

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'The Gilded Age' gives old New York money the HBO treatment

9:30am January 20, 2022

by Linda Holmes

The new series The Gilded Age, from the creator of Downton Abbey, takes a big, talented cast to 1882 New York for a story about money and class.

Vogue editor and fashion icon André Leon Tally attends The CW: It's A Reality at Simyone Lounge on February 23, 2010 in New York City.

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A treasure of the fashion world, André Leon Talley was impossible to ignore

2:31pm January 19, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

André Leon Talley was a towering figure in fashion who spoke up about Black representation and the fashion industry's toll on Black people. He passed away on Jan. 18, 2022.

Joss Whedon was once hailed as a feminist. Then came the stories about his behavior

5:51pm January 18, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with reporter Lila Shapiro about the allegations against writer-director Joss Whedon.

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"One of the jobs as an actor is we cannot judge our characters," Brian Cox says of the ruthless business tycoon he plays on Succession.

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'Succession' actor Brian Cox can't defend Logan Roy, but he can relate to him

1:05pm January 18, 2022

by Terry Gross

Cox says the ruthless business tycoon he plays HBO's Succession is one of the most extraordinary roles he's ever taken: "He is a misanthrope [who] is very disappointed with the human experiment."

Sophie (Hilary Duff) and Valentina (Francia Raisa) star in How I Met Your Father, premiering Jan. 18 on Hulu.

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'How I Met Your Father' tries to learn from a 'Mother' of mistakes

12:30pm January 18, 2022

by Linda Holmes

Years after the How I Met Your Mother finale left us with bad feelings, How I Met Your Father is premiering on Hulu. The concept is similar, but the chemistry and quirkiness may be hard to duplicate.

Christina Ricci as Misty, Juliette Lewis as Natalie, Tawny Cypress as Taissa and Melanie Lynskey as Shauna in Yellowjackets.

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Your 'Yellowjackets' finale questions, answered

11:02pm January 16, 2022

by Linda Holmes

In the season finale of Showtime's Yellowjackets, some of the mysteries of what really happened to the team in 1996 got some resolution. Some didn't. We're here to sort it out.

CNN's new four-part documentary series, Reframed: Marilyn Monroe, revisits the life and career of the film legend (shown here in 1954). The first two parts of the series air Jan. 16.

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'Reframed' revisits Marilyn Monroe's life and legacy, from an all-women point of view

1:28pm January 14, 2022

by David Bianculli

During her career and after her death, Monroe was objectified and scrutinized — mostly by male writers, biographers and historians. CNN's new docuseries tells her story from a fresh perspective.

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