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'Al Davis vs. the NFL' fumbles away a great story with a bad 'deep fake' call

5 years 8 months ago
The legal feud between Raiders owner Al Davis and the National Football League is the kind of juicy stuff that ought to be hard to screw up, but ESPN manages to do just that with "Al Davis vs. the NFL," a "30 for 30" documentary that fumbles away a juicy premise with one exceptionally bad call: Using "deep fake" replicas of Davis and NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, both long deceased, to tell the story.

'Firefly Lane' gives Katherine Heigl the right kind of soapy TV home

5 years 8 months ago
After post-"Grey's Anatomy" dramatic vehicles on NBC and CBS, Katherine Heigl finds a show that should stick with "Firefly Lane," a soapy concoction about friendship across decades, which cleverly flits among three separate time frames. Sarah Chalke ("Scrubs") plays Heigl's bosom pal, in a nicely unpretentious Netflix series that lends itself to a good binge.

'Fake Famous' spotlights the darker side of how 'influencers' get made

5 years 8 months ago
"Fake Famous" offers a novel window into the world of influencers, conducting an experiment to see if three young wannabes can be transformed into marketing dynamos. While their tales don't unfold entirely as planned, the HBO documentary exposes how ripe for manipulation this whole culture is, and the powerful incentives to game the system.
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