‘The Beast in Me’ Review: Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys Try Hard, but Netflix’s Cat-and-Mouse Thriller Is an Exercise in Prestige TV Monotony

‘The Beast in Me’ Review: Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys Try Hard, but Netflix’s Cat-and-Mouse Thriller Is an Exercise in Prestige TV Monotony

If the past 30 years of TV had a face, one could argue that it belongs to Claire Danes and that it is almost certainly crying. Claire Danes Crying Face, crumpled creases of concern atop a quivery chin, has been deployed in the service of romantic desolation, professional desperation and several permutations of grief, loneliness…

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Boss Explains Painful Season 22 Premiere Casualty: “I Cried on That Phone Call”

‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Boss Explains Painful Season 22 Premiere Casualty: “I Cried on That Phone Call”

[This story contains spoilers from the season 22 premiere of Grey’s Anatomy, “Only the Strong Survive.”] Grey’s Anatomy ended its 21st season with one of its biggest hospital explosions in recent memory when the operating floor of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital went up in flames after a highly flammable acetylene tank was brought into the hospital….

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#‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ Review: Sonequa Martin-Green and Ed Harris in an Intimate but Erratic Veteran Drama

#‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ Review: Sonequa Martin-Green and Ed Harris in an Intimate but Erratic Veteran Drama

Everyone in Kyle Hausmann-Stokes’ compassionate feature My Dead Friend Zoe has suffered a loss. Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green), a nervous Afghanistan war veteran, is reeling from the death of her closest friend in combat. Dr. Cole (Morgan Freeman), the supervisor of the court-mandated therapy sessions Merit must attend, grieves absences in his own life. And Merit’s…

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#‘No Hard Feelings’ Team Responds to Controversy Around Premise of Parents Hiring Someone to “Date” Their Son

#‘No Hard Feelings’ Team Responds to Controversy Around Premise of Parents Hiring Someone to “Date” Their Son

In Sony’s new comedy No Hard Feelings, Jennifer Lawrence’s 32-year-old character is hired by a couple of helicopter parents to “date” their 19-year-old son, played by Andrew Barth Feldman. Yes, in both the ad the parents post on Craigslist and an awkward in-person meeting between Lawrence’s Maddie and the mother and father played by Laura…

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