TV Review

Lawmen: Bass Reeves — The Real Western Hero America Forgot, and the Show That Almost Does Him Justice

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  Here is a true story that sounds invented. A man is born into slavery in Arkansas. His owner drags him into the Civil War to fight for the Confederacy, and somewhere in that nightmare he escapes — the legend says he beat the man over a card game and ran. He disappears into Indian … Read more

The Four Seasons Season 2 — What Kerri Kenney-Silver Found in the Space Steve Carell Left Behind

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  he most disciplined thing The Four Seasons Season 2 does is refuse to let Nick haunt it. Steve Carell’s character was, in the first season, the kind of person a group of friends organizes itself around without quite realizing it — the one whose choices set the terms, whose appetites defined the social weather. … Read more