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Westworld: HBO’s Star-Packed Series Updates Crichton’s 1973 Chiller

September 30, 2016 Lori Acken

Westworld premieres Sunday, Oct. 2 at 9/8CT on HBO What if — for a day or a week — the world was yours to control? Someone giving you grief? Waste them without consequence. That lovely lady right there at the bar? Yours for the taking, no questions asked. The drinks flow freely, you win every game and nobody cares if you’re a workaday schlub fending off a midlife meltdown. But what if you were the irritant, that pretty woman, another someone in your unfettered path? And what if, one day, you realized that your moment-by-moment existence is no more than a construct […]

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Conviction: Hayley Atwell Plays a Bad Girl Doing Good

September 30, 2016 Lori Acken

Conviction ABC Premieres: Oct. 3 Airs: Mondays at 10pm Who’s In It? Hayley Atwell, Eddie Cahill, Emily Kinney, Merrin Dungey, Shawn Ashmore, Manny Montana ABC bolsters its stable of engrossing dramas featuring brilliant but flawed heroines and their spunky teams of helpers with this addictive charmer, that also serves as a solid whodunit. Captain America’s Atwell plays Hayes Morrison, a reckless, rapier-wit former first daughter who has become a brilliant lawyer and professor despite her taste for trouble. When Hayes’ latest adventures (see also: cocaine and a dab of ill-advised seduction) land her in the pokey yet again — at the […]

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Empire Season 3 Episode 2 Recap: Stage Fright

September 28, 2016 StayTuned Staff

Is it Cookie’s birthday or is Lucious really trying to buy her? He’s gone mad if he thinks he can buy her a few things and call it even. On last week’s episode of Empire, Cookie told him she was done with him and she meant it. Yikes! I see things aren’t any better at Lucious’ house. Anika needs help taking care of Bella, so she tries hiring a nanny. Nope. That’s not going to fly in Lucious’ house. Leah tries to help by telling Anika she would be willing to take care of Bella. Once again…nope. Anika yells at […]

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Secrets and Lies Season 2: Who’s in Det. Cornell’s crosshairs this time?

September 24, 2016 Lori Acken

Secrets and Lies Sunday, Sept. 25 ABC, 9/8CT It’s been a long wait for Juliette Lewis’ Detective Andrea Cornell to return to the job, but she’s finally back on the job, with a killer new case and another troubled-but-handsome prime suspect. When the wife of Eric Warner (The Following‘s Michael Ealy ), heir to a lucrative private equity firm, is found dead at the very party announcing Eric’s rise to the top, Cornell must unravel the secrets of the Warner family and their intimates, and find out just how close to home Kate Warner’s (Jordana Brewster) killer might be. Meet […]

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Empire Season 3 Episode 1 Recap: A Lyon Cub is Born

September 21, 2016 StayTuned Staff

It’s Wednesday night, and you know what that means…Empire is back for Season 3! Which also means…someone is getting pushed off a balcony! NO! I wasn’t ready for this. It was Rhonda that fell off the balcony! I’m sorry, but I was kind of hoping it would have been Anika. Andre can’t live with this! As if that wasn’t enough, Anika’s water breaks as Andre starts choking her because he saw Rhonda get pushed off the balcony. Hakeem is too worried about getting left at the altar that he pops up at Tiana’s house, looking for some sugar. Boy, put […]

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Designated Survivor: Kiefer Sutherland gets presidential in ABC’s new thriller

September 15, 2016 Lori Acken

Designated Survivor ABC Premieres: Sept. 21 Airs: Wednesdays at 10pm Who’s In It? Kiefer Sutherland, Natascha McElhone, Kal Penn, Maggie Q, Virginia Madsen, Italia Ricci, Adan Canto, Kevin McNally We didn’t think the glasses that Kiefer Sutherland’s Tom Kirkman sports in Wednesday’s premiere episode of the highly anticipated ABC conspiracy thriller Designated Survivor are merely a fashion statement. Coke-bottle-lensed and nerdy not-quite-chic, they render Sutherland — so imposing as 24’s Jack Bauer — one degree shy of LBJ. You know, that other accidental president? Which is what Kirkman — newly demoted HUD secretary and the country’s “designated survivor” (yes, it’s a […]