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Empire Season 3, Episode 7: “What We May Be” Original Air Date: November 30, 2016 Grade: A Hmmm. This may be one of …
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‘How To Get Away With Murder’ Review – “Who’s Dead?”
How To Get Away With Murder Season 3, Episode 9 Original Air Date: November 17, 2016 Grade: A This article contains spoilers …
Read More »‘Empire’ Review: “Chimes at Midnight”
Season 3, Episode 6: “Chimes at Midnight” Original Air Date: November 16, 2016 Grade: B I know why they didn’t entitle this …
Read More »‘How To Get Away With Murder’ Review – “No More Blood”
How to Get Away With Murder is one week away from revealing the who is under the sheet as Frank returns and Wes goes on trial.
Read More »‘Empire’ Review – “One Before Another”
Empire Season 3, Episode 5 – One Before Another Original Air Date: November 9, 2016 Grade: B It’s been a much needed long …
Read More »‘Atlanta’ Review – “The Club”
Donald Glover's 'Atlanta' is beginning to understand its strengths as a television show when Earn, Paperboi, and Darius head to "The Club."
Read More »‘Empire’ Review – “Cupid Kills”
"Cupid Kills" succeeds where other episodes have failed by focusing less on the star power of special guests and playing to the strengths of Cookie, Jamal, and Andre.
Read More »‘How To Get Away With Murder’ Review – “Always Bet Black”
Season 3, Episode 3 Original Air Date: October 6, 2016 Grade: B Spoilers through How to Get Away With Murder season …
Read More »The Issue With ‘Luke Cage’
Minor spoilers for Marvel’s Luke Cage on Netflix. For all of the greatness and pomp and circumstance surrounding the arrival …
Read More »#BlackGirlMagic Reigns In ‘Luke Cage’
Minor spoilers for Marvel’s Luke Cage on Netflix. There are a lot of complaints to make about the Marvel Cinematic …
Read More »‘Empire’ Review – “What Remains Is Bestial”
I've never seen a show quickly go from being brave and innovative to downright tragic, leaving me questioning if "Empire" is torturous more to me or to the characters.
Read More »‘Atlanta’ Review – “Value”
'Value' focuses strictly on Earn's ex-girlfriend/baby mother/"sometimes" roommate, Van, a teacher, that as much as she would like everyone around her to believe has it together, is just as much of a mess as Earn is.
Read More »How “Luke Cage” Reignites Harlem
For every superhero, it's always about location. Superman has Metropolis, Daredevil has Hell's Kitchen and Luke Cage has Harlem.
Read More »Harlem and The Music of ‘Luke Cage’
Cheo Hodari Coker understands that without hip-hop, there is no Harlem and without Harlem, there is no Luke Cage.
Read More »‘Luke Cage’ & The Need for Black Superheroes
Looking at how Cage walks around with a hoodie, emblazoned not with a standard superhero badge but the holes from bullets that ricochet off him, stands taller than any impenetrable armor can.
Read More »‘How To Get Away With Murder’ Review – “There Are Worse Things Than Murder”
How to Get Away With Murder Season 3, Episode 2: “There Are Worse Things Than Murder” Original Air Date: September 29, …
Read More »‘Empire’ Review: “Sin That Amends”
"Sin That Amends" throws us right back into the cyclone which is the Lyon family and their drama.
Read More »‘Atlanta’ Review: “Nobody Beats The Biebs”
In "Nobody Beats The Biebs," Earn and Paper Boi find themselves at a celebrity basketball tournament, with Paper Boi struggling to battle against the public perception of a Black Justin Bieber-character and the asshole that is actually the Black Justin Bieber.
Read More »‘How To Get Away With Murder’ Review: “We’re Good People Now”
How to Get Away With Murder jumps forward in time as Annalise and the Keating 5 aim to turn over a new leaf with the start of the new semester.
Read More »‘Empire’ Review: “Light In Darkness”
After a hell of a cliffhanger, everyone's favorite hip-hopera, Empire has returned to give us all constant heart-attacks once again.
Read More »‘Scandal’ Review – Yes
SCANDAL Season 5, Episode 2 – “Yes” Air Date: September 25, 2015 GRADE: B+ Who knew one word could shake up everything you …
Read More »‘Empire’ Review: Without A Country
EMPIRE Season 2, Episode 2 – “Without A Country” Air Date: September 30, 2015 GRADE: B+ Let’s start by acknowledging the greatness …
Read More »‘Scandal’ Review: Heavy Is The Head
SCANDAL Season 5, Episode 1 – “Heavy Is The Head” Air Date: September 25, 2015 GRADE: C+ Over the course of …
Read More »Empire: “The Devils Are Here” Review
EMPIRE Season 2, Episode 1 – “The Devils Are Here” Air Date: September 23, 2015 GRADE: B+ Beyond the record-shattering numbers and …
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