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2018
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At first it seems like the most random murder of the whole TV season: A South London pizza deliverer is shot twice in the chest as he leaves the building where he made the delivery. Collateral, a four-part closed-end Netflix miniseries that becomes available Friday (March 9), weaves a much more complex story...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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SEASON PREMIERE: It’s been three years since Krysten Ritter first appeared as the star of Marvel’s Jessica Jones, playing a particularly damaged super-powered protagonist from the Marvel Comics universe. Her character, in the TV series, doesn’t even have a costumed alter ego or even a costume. Just a drinking problem, an angry attitude, and a tiny private-eye outfit called Alias Investigations. Her closest friend and confidante is her sister, Trish, and her most severe trauma,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
8
 
 
Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) has another dilemma this week: Whether she, or her husband, should rejoin the workforce while the other stays home to watch the kids.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
8
 
 
Cameron Monaghan returns as Jerome, who’s becoming more like the Joker every time he appears. Poison Ivy is becoming more recognizably villainous, too – and on the other side of the law, the future Batman also makes an appearance, sort of, as Ivy gives young Bruce Wayne a venomously propelled dream-world glimpse into his future, as a costumed hero with his own cave.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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8
 
 
Tonight in prime time, TCM presents two of the best movies ever made about lone men standing up against injustice. First up, in this 1952 Western directed by Fred Zinnemann, is High Noon, starring Gary Cooper as Marshal Will Kane, who finds little support from his townspeople when a gunslinger, formerly jailed by Kane, announces his intention to exact revenge by coming to town to kill him. Grace Kelly co-stars.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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Here’s tonight’s other TCM classic about one man standing up against injustice. This time it’s a black man being tried for murder, with Gregory Peck playing Atticus Finch, the lawyer who is determined to give his client fair representation, even in a very small and largely bigoted town. Mary Badham plays Atticus’ daughter, Scout, and Robert Duvall, in this 1962 movie, has a small but meaningful role as Boo. Horton Foote wrote the screenplay adaptation of Harper Lee’
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
8
 
 
Alfred continues to taste some success with his rap single – but that small measure of success brings with it some larger problems, such as making him an obvious target for robbery, even by people in his own neighborhood.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
8
 
 
Broad, hit-and-mostly-miss sitcoms generally are affixed with laugh tracks to underscore their need to feel wanted...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
8
 
 
If you thought the death of her worst adversary and the passage of two and a half years would brighten Jessica Jones’s world by even one milliwatt, you have not been paying attention...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
8
 
 
On TV, at least, being a dirty cop looks like really hard work...