In Starz’s new original film The Dresser, Anthony Hopkins delivers his best performance in years as a veteran actor who has to fight off in his deteriorating mind in order to perform as King Lear one last time.
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On the very satisfying season finale of Bates Motel, Norman struggles with his grief following a death in the family as the show begins to move into territory from the original Psycho film.
In the season finale, Damien faces tragedy and finally decides to embrace his role as the Antichrist. But after a meandering season that never managed to justify its existence.
On this week’s game-changing episode of Bates Motel, Norma faces the consequences after years of neglecting Norman’s worsening psychosis, while Alex and Dylan try to convince her of the danger that Norman poses to her and others.
On this week’s episode of Bates Motel, Norman has trouble adjusting to all the changes that have occurred in his mother’s life while he was away.
In the show’s best episode yet, Damien has nowhere else to turn and seeks out an exorcist from the Vatican, hoping that she can put an end to all of the death that has been occurring around him.
On this week’s episode of Bates Motel, Norman and Emma both try to reunite with their mothers, but only one of them manages to succeed.
Damien finally articulated why we should his existential crisis. We must admit that we are now interested in seeing what becomes of Damien, something that would have been previously unimaginable.
Damien learns some crucial information about his true nature and the shadowy group that has been trying to bring about the rise of the Antichrist, while Sister Greta begins to marshall an offensive against him.
On this week’s episode of Bates Motel, Norman and his mother struggle to prevent their family’s secrets from getting out.
As the first season of The Girlfriend Experience concludes, Christine’s two lives collide and she’s forced to choose which life she wants to embrace.
As the season of The Girlfriend Experience progresses, the lines separating Christine’s double life start to blur. She faces adversaries all around her and is forced to work to prevent her secrets from being exposed.
With The Girlfriend Experience, writers and directors Amy Seimetz and Lodge Kerrigan have crafty a wonderfully arresting and confounding show that’s unlike anything else on TV.
On this week’s episode of Bates Motel, characters find themselves confronting issues from their past that they had hoped to put behind them.
Compared to past weeks, this episode had a number of threads that showed potential. Unfortunately, it proceeded to squander those threads by convoluting the narrative, making it unnecessarily difficult to follow in a failed attempt to put us in Damien’s disoriented shoes.
After five episodes of the show (half the length of the season’s ten episode run) it’s become clear in this week’s episode, titled “Seven Curses,” that the least interesting aspect of Damien is Damien himself.
This week’s episode, “Lights of Winter,” revolved around the season’s new pairings while Norman realized he has a problem.
This week’s episode of Damien, “The Number of a Man,” was the show’s best yet, with the first inkling that there may be some potential in its story.
It’s already clear that irrevocable change has come to the residents of White Pine Bay. In this week’s very satisfying episode, “’Til Death Do You Part,” several characters allow themselves to imagine new beginnings they might have never otherwise dreamed.
It’s possible that this week’s episode of Damien, titled “The Deliverer,” was its best yet. It’s also possible that this week’s episode of Damien was its worst yet. It’s hard to tell. But let’s begin at the end and work back from there…
If the first two episodes of Bates Mote’s fourth season are indicative of the quality to come, then this will likely end up being the best season of the show to date.
Against all odds, the second episode of A&E’s DAMIEN, titled “Second Death,” managed to be a worse hour of television than the series premiere. In this week’s episode Damien begins to learn more about his past.
In the fourth season premiere, titled “A Danger to Himself and Others,” Norma is finally forced into realizing the severity of Norman’s psychological issues and the role she’s played in allowing their exacerbation.
Damien shows the potential pitfalls of adaptation due to its inability to make a case for why anyone who isn’t familiar with The Omen’s lore should care about its proceedings.
