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Scott Meslow is the author of From Hollywood With Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy and a senior editor at The Week magazine. He has written profiles, reviews, and other culture criticism for publications including GQ, The Verge, and The Atlantic.

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    The Umbrella Academy Series-Finale Recap: Fighting With My FamilyThe series’ ending is satisfying enough, but watching these characters go out like this is a tough pill to swallow.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Time Enough at LastThe shortened season doesn’t have enough time for all of these subplots.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: In Search of Lost TimeThe Umbrellas have already prevented the end of the world three times throughout the series. What’s one more?
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Where Is My Mind?It looks like we’ll have to wait a bit longer to find out what the Jennifer Incident is and how Ben died.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Just a Small-Town GirlThe team is back together, and the season kicks into gear just in time for some major revelations.
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    The Umbrella Academy Season-Premiere Recap: A Whole New WorldSo, we’re just going to forget how last season ended, I guess.
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    Time for a Sugar RushYou have literally 24 hours to catch up before the series’ audacious twist gets ruined for you.
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    The Fall of the House of Usher Series-Finale Recap: That’s So VernaWe finally get the gory details of Roderick’s devil’s bargain.
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    The Fall of the House of Usher Recap: Half the Man I Used to BeFreddie fulfills his destiny: being the most cowardly Usher and having the nastiest death.
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    The Fall of the House of Usher Recap: The Mirror Has Two FacesHouse of Usher is dialing its eat-the-rich ethos all the way up.
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    The Fall of the House of Usher Recap: My Heart Will Go OnEven Roderick can’t deny what’s going on at this point.
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    The Fall of the House of Usher Recap: That Darn Cat!Verna is racking up her body count, but what exactly is she up to?
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    The Fall of the House of Usher Recap: Monkey’s PawVerna is embedding herself with the Usher children and (presumably) setting them up for future downfalls.
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    The Fall of the House of Usher Recap: Set Fire to the RainAin’t no party like a doomed sex party because a doomed sex party don’t stop. (Until everyone is dead.)
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    The Fall of the House of Usher Series-Premiere Recap: Keeping Up With the UshersIn his latest reimagining of a horror classic for Netflix, Mike Flanagan wastes no time playing Edgar Allan Poe’s greatest hits.
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    Say Goodbye to Your WitcherHenry Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia has wandered off into the mist, presumably to return with Liam Hemsworth’s face.
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    The Witcher Season-Finale Recap: To Be ContinuedHenry Cavill may be done on The Witcher, but Geralt of Rivia isn’t going anywhere.
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    The Witcher Recap: The Last UnicornAs Henry Cavill’s Geralt nears his end, Ciri is becoming the main character now.
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    The Witcher Midseason-Premiere Recap: Fire & BloodWe’ve never seen a fight go this badly for Geralt.
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    The Witcher Midseason-Finale Recap: Having a BallThe reveals in the midseason finale would be more fun if they weren’t blatantly obvious.
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    The Witcher Recap: Having a BallIs The Witcher building up to its very own Red Wedding?
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    The Witcher Recap: Are You My Mother?Like any parent of a gifted teenager trying to get into an elite academy, Yennefer will do anything to land Ciri a spot at her alma mater.
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    The Witcher Recap: Castle FreakA reminder that The Witcher can confidently shift back into Hercules: The Legendary Journeys–style storytelling whenever it likes.
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    The Witcher Season-Premiere Recap: On the Road AgainThe Witcher keeps insisting on making its world bigger, but it never seems to get any deeper.
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    The Last of Us’s Most Interesting Game Departures ExplainedCo-creator Neil Druckmann unpacks the rationale behind the TV show’s deviations from the original video game.
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    What Non-Gamers Should Know About The Last of UsShould you binge-play the landmark 2013 video game before diving into HBO’s adaptation? It depends on how you feel about spoilers.
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    The Witcher: Blood Origin Finale Recap: You Say You Want a RevolutionWhile this miniseries wasn’t exactly a riveting page-turner, it opens plenty of possibilities for the next story in the Witcher-verse.
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    The Witcher: Blood Origin Recap: I Live, I Die, I Live AgainSpending time with these characters goofing off is what Blood Origin needed all along.
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    The Witcher: Blood Origin Recap: The Empire Strikes BackBlood Origin is trying to speed-run through two different shows at once.
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    The Witcher: Blood Origin Series-Premiere Recap: The Elves on the ShelvesAn underwhelming premiere of The Witcher’s prequel series at least introduces Michelle Yeoh’s character.
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    Tales of the Walking Dead Season-Finale Recap: Bump in the NightTales of the Walking Dead saved its best episode for last.
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    Tales of the Walking Dead Recap: The Monsters Are Due in MadawaskaTales of the Walking Dead opens with a killer, pulpy Tales From the Crypt premise, then squanders it.
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    Tales of the Walking Dead Recap: Weird ScienceA scientist wants to study the world’s new apex predator: Homo mortuus.
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    Tales of the Walking Dead Recap: Troubled WaterA major Walking Dead villain gets a backstory in this not-especially standalone entry in the zombie anthology series.
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    Tales of the Walking Dead Recap: Live, Die, RepeatZombies are one thing, but a time loop?
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    Tales of the Walking Dead Series-Premiere RecapIt’s a zom-rom-com meet-cute for the ages!
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    The Umbrella Academy Season-Finale Recap: If I Could Turn Back TimeWe’ve been hurtling toward the Hotel Oblivion all season — was it worth it?
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Daddy IssuesWhat is Reginald up to???
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: My Big Fat Apocalypse WeddingIf you had just one day left to live, how would you spend it?
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Broken HomeThe Umbrellas and Sparrows ping-pong off each other in the best episode of the season.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Who Are You?Allison continues down her darkened path.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Out of ControlDo the Umbrellas’ interpersonal dramas really matter in the face of the apocalypse?
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: And Behind Door No. 1 …The dramatic escalation in the Umbrellas-versus-Sparrows skirmish means everyone needs to make some hard choices, fast.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Rival SchoolsOne of the mysteries lingering in the background of the season finally comes to the forefront.
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    The Umbrella Academy Recap: Love, ViktorEach of the Umbrellas is decompressing after Dallas by taking a little time to figure out who they really are.
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    The Umbrella Academy Season-Premiere Recap: Apocalypse SoonThe Umbrella Academy returns to an alternate future where Hargreeves adopted a different gaggle of superpowered kids.
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    The Best and Worst of Love, Death & Robots Volume 3Netflix’s experimental animated series is back, serving up its signature blend of sci-fi, horror, and comedy.
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    ‘She Was So Committed to the Dark Side That I Was a Little Bit Worried’How My Best Friend’s Wedding messed with Julia Roberts’s image and changed rom-coms for good.
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    The Witcher Season-Finale Recap: The Devil Made Me Do ItA jam-packed finale manages to have a little of everything, including one good twist.
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    The Witcher Recap: Must Be the Season of the WitchThe true villain of the season makes their big move.
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