The Weekly Review: October 13 – 19

 

 

Wednesday is telling you who to vote for.

 

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Hollywood’s dearth of original ideas, glut of reboots and sequels, and speculation that superhero and comic-book movies might be on the way out, and video-game movies the new, big thing —

Hell, no! Why not go back to the treasure trove of screenplay ideas that has always served Hollywood so well: books?

 

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I watched some, not all, of season one of the Netflix drama The Diplomat and thought it was … OK.

It ain’t Borgen, and it ain’t House of Cards. It wasn’t bad, but it also wasn’t particularly memorable.

But I suppose season two is “must watch” because the protagonist is a female politician. Very “woke,” right?

 

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