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How 'Severance' perfected its creepy, beautiful visual language

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When we first meet Helly R., the indefatigable heroine of "Severance," she's splayed on a conference table in a windowless room carpeted in putrid shades of green. She awakens, for the first time, as an "innie" -- someone who's elected to sever their brain so that they can perform their work duties as a person separate from who they are out of the office -- an extreme means of achieving work-life balance.

'House of the Dragon' plays a less-addictive game for an earlier throne

4 years 1 month ago
HBO has followed the majesty of "Game of Thrones" with what might be called "games of throne" in "House of the Dragon," a series whose epic visual grandeur belies a smaller and less addictive power struggle, more narrowly focused on the Targaryen line. It's not bad, and there are dragons aplenty, but it doesn't produce the sort of characters that defined and elevated its predecessor to prestige-TV royalty.

Sister acts: 'Echoes' and 'Bad Sisters' ride sibling mysteries into the stream

4 years 1 month ago
In a perfect sign of the peak-TV times, a single Friday brings a pair of mystery series devoted to sisters and their unique bonds, including one with (sort-of) evil twins. "Echoes" starts with promise upon which it doesn't deliver, while "Bad Sisters" -- too long, but satisfying at the end -- plays like the never-made third season of "Big Little Lies," where the really "bad" person is the abusive husband who winds up dead.
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