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Palace Shocker! Recap: The Royals Episode 7 “Your Sovereignty of Reason”

April 27, 2015 Kellie Freeze

In The Royals, Episode 7, the paps get pesty, Ophelia gets breasty, King Simon gets testy and we get visited by the best…y. Liam and Ophelia are wrapped up in post-coital bliss (beneath a headboard with majorly chipping paint. I hope for the sake of their future children that it’s not lead-based paint. Over in the queen’s apartment, Someone else is getting properly man-handled too; HRH is getting her golden bod (Literally!) rubbed by three strong pairs of handsome hands. Ophelia and Liam’s sexy-time doesn’t last long, Ophelia’s topless flaunt in Morocco was caught by the lens of a pesky […]

HAPPYish Episode 1 Recap

April 27, 2015 StayTuned Staff

HAPPYish premiered tonight on Showtime. I’m not going to lie: it exhausted me to watch it, but I’m going to keep watching, nonetheless. It’s a bit eye-rolling to watch an angsty, artsy interpretation of a wealthy, white male having an existential crisis, but I’ll try my best to keep my recap positive because, even though the pilot episode wore me down, something about it interested me. I think it was the murderous elf. More on that later, though. As the show opens, we see Mt. Rushmore, and hear a voiceover from Thom Payne, the show’s main character, which is pretty […]

Nurse Jackie recap Season 7, Episode 3 – Akalitus looks to fire someone

April 26, 2015 Barb Oates

Nurse Jackie recap Season 7, Episode 3 “Godfathering” (original airdate April 26, 2015) Even sleeping next to Eddie, Jackie needs her personal space. She awakes to stay on task – she needs to be at church with her patient Vivian, who she’s determined to get back on her feet (despite the fact that she’s using Vivian’s drugs for a secondary source of income, selling them to her former dealer). At All Saints a man is brought in on a gurney, having just fallen from a building. There’s a lot of blood. Jackie (Edie Falco) swoops in interrupting Zoey (Merritt Weaver), […]

Jack Randall exposed …Recap: Outlander Episode 12 “Lallybroch”

April 25, 2015 Barb Oates

Outlander “Lallybroch” Episode 12 (original airdate April 25, 2015) Let’s start by saying there were plenty of visually stunning scenes in Episode 12 of Outlander — some beautiful (the cinematography of Scotland in this episode is breathtaking), some horrifying (the floggings) and some just downright nasty (Randall schlopping out his ballocks, OMG). The episode opens with lavish panoramics of the Scottish hills and seaside —simply beautiful. As the aerial views zoom closer to land we see Claire and Jamie on horse making their way to what we presume to be Lallybroch, Jamie’s ancestral home. Claire and Jamie playfully chat. Probably […]

American Crime Episode 8 recap

April 24, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

In American Crime Episode 8, a rally for Carter (Elvis Nolasco) turned chaotic, and Barb (Felicity Huffman) perhaps began the steps toward some sort of self-awareness. As the episode opened, Carter was being interviewed by a TV reporter about the upcoming rally/march that his sister Aliyah (Regina King) was organizing for him, to be held the next day. The reporter tried to lead Carter with some ratings-driven, controversial questions, implying that Aliyah is bringing in “outside agitators” to start violence. Carter gets up and leaves the interview, telling the reporter, “This isn’t working for me.” That sentiment from the reporter […]

“Grey’s Anatomy” fans demand the head of Shonda Rhimes

April 24, 2015 Ryan Berenz

So last night’s Grey’s Anatomy, “How to Save a Life,” sent fans of Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) throwing themselves over a cliff en masse. I bore witness to my wife’s own personal “he’s-going-to-die-no-he-isn’t-yes-he-is-GET-THE-CT-SCAN!-OMG-HE’S-DEAD!” emotional wringer. The Internet, being the Internet, became a gathering place for all stages of grief at once. But, really, knowing that Dempsey wanted out, it shouldn’t have come as that much of a surprise … could it? Our own Andrea Verschage received this text message from her sister at 5:44am: Here are some of the best Twitter reactions: Man, you guys really liked the […]

Preview: Lifetime’s ‘Cleveland Abduction’ premieres May 2

April 23, 2015 Lori Acken

Cleveland Abduction premieres May 2 at 8/7CT on Lifetime. What It’s Based On: The shocking discovery that former school bus driver Ariel Castro held three women hostage in his suburban Cleveland home for more than a decade, fathering a child with one. Lifetime of a Lesson: Truth is stranger (and scarier) than fiction. This stunning survivor story is told from the perspective of 21-year-old single mom Michelle Knight (Taryn Manning), who was abducted by Ariel Castro (Breaking Bad‘s Raymond Cruz) in 2002. Castro later added naive teens Amanda Berry (Samantha Droke) and Gina DeJesus (Katie Sarife) to his house of horrors. […]

The Casual Vacancy: J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter follow-up becomes an HBO mini

April 23, 2015 Lori Acken

When J.K. Rowling brought her beloved Harry Potter book series to a close in 2007, fans wondered where her unique literary mind might wander next. Publishing the Potter spinoff The Tales of Beedle the Bard a year later, Rowling then turned her attention to a strictly grownup audience with 2012’s best-selling The Casual Vacancy. Now the prolific author has teamed up with the BBC and HBO to adapt the brooding tale of small town discord into a three-part, two-night event of the same name. The Casual Vacancy is set in a fictional and picturesque English hamlet called Pagford, where, behind […]

Video: Kris Kristofferson covers “I Won’t Back Down” for “Texas Rising” soundtrack

April 23, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

History’s upcoming miniseries Texas Rising — premiering on Memorial Day — will also include a soundtrack album featuring new music from legendary performers such as George Strait (who performs the title song “Take Me to Texas”; new tracks from Jose Feliciano; and a new cover of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” performed by series costar Kris Kristofferson (pictured below as Andrew Jackson with costar Olivier Martinez as Santa Anna). Today, History released a music video for Kristofferson’s rendition of “I Won’t Back Down,” a fitting tune considering that the series details what followed the battle at the Alamo for the fight for […]

Five high-tech lessons to be learned from CSI Cyber

April 22, 2015 Eric Kohanik

Times have changed. And so has crime. “The bank robbery of yesterday was going into a bank, breaking in, taking a lot of money,” says Anthony E. Zuiker, one of the creators, writers and executive producers of the various incarnations of CBS’s CSI crime shows. According to Zuiker, the bank robbery of tomorrow will be a cyber crime – one that involves “taking three cents out of your account” – and millions of others. The growing danger of cyber crime is the inspiration behind CSI: Cyber. The rookie drama series casts Patricia Arquette as Special Agent Avery Ryan, the head […]