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Should You Throw In With Throwing Shade?
What Is This Thing? Throwing Shade is a half-hour commentary/sketch show based/riffing on current events from the perspectives of its hosts: Bryan Safi (who is gay) and Erin Gibson (who is a...
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Should You Brave Frontier?
What Is This Thing? Frontier is set in Canada in the 1700s -- wait, come back! -- as various nations and companies fought to dominate the fur trade, i.e. beavers. Game Of Thrones's Khal Drogo (and...
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Should You Let Archie's New Hotness Take You To The Riverdale?
What Is This Thing? Riverdale is the brand-new Greg Berlanti-produced teen drama, but more importantly, it is the first live-action TV series adapted from the venerable Archie Comics franchise. Archie...
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Should You Go Rogue With Training Day?
What Is This Thing? It's yet another CBS procedural crime drama in the vein of every other show airing on CBS, only this time there's only a wavy, paper-thin line separating the evildoers and the...
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Will You Be Powerless To Resist Powerless?
What Is This Thing? Life in Charm City can be perilous, what with fights constantly breaking out between superheroes and supervillains in which ordinary citizens can end up literally caught in the...
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Should You Get On The Santa Clarita Diet?
What Is This Thing? Sheila and Joel have a nice life -- tidy house, only moderately sassy teenaged daughter, a nice living as a realtor team. Then Sheila becomes a zombie and things aren't so great...
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Should You Be On The Lookout For APB?
What Is This Thing? APB posits the question: What would happen if a blowhard billionaire decides that the real thing holding police back is not an outmoded us-vs.-them approach to policing, or even a...
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Should You Subscribe To So Cosmo?
What is this thing? The lives and loves of the staff at Cosmopolitan magazine, including former EIC, current Hearst "Chief Content Officer," and top-notch Project Runway All-Stars mentor Joanna Coles;...
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Should You Let Detroiters Motor Into Your TV Schedule?
What Is This Thing? Hank Cramblin was a legend in the world of advertising, with a successful agency in Detroit. Then he went insane. Now his son Tim and Tim's friend Sam Duvet are trying to build...
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Will Legion's Fans Be...Legion?
What is this thing? Legion, a new Marvel show based on a comic book of the same name. When is it on? Wednesdays at 10 PM on FX, starting February 8. Why now? Well, super(anti-?)hero shows have never...
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Are You Certain You Should Watch Doubt?
What Is This Thing? There's this law firm run by Isaiah Roth, a lawyer who made his name defending the Black Panthers and who still has a reputation for defending the downtrodden. He also loves a...
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Is Peter Berg's Docuseries QB1: Beyond The Lights A Touchdown?
What is this thing? Kind of a real-life Friday Night Lights (not least because it's exec-produced by Peter Berg), QB1 follows the fates of three high-school seniors, quarterbacks all and all committed...
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Is The Good Fight Worth Fighting For?
What Is This Thing? A spinoff of the late, lamented (and then a question mark?) The Good Wife, centered on -- or, at least, kicked off by -- Diane Lockhart, whose retirement plans get scuttled when...
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Does Crashing Deserve An Indefinite Stay On Your Couch?
What Is This Thing? Pete Holmes, that comedian from all the podcasts (that narrows it down enough, right?), plays himself as a struggling, painfully earnest comedian who's a long way from his first...
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Should You Be True To Big Little Lies?
What Is This Thing? The perfect lives of the families in the tony coastal town of Monterey, California, are (SURPRISE) not all that perfect after all, as tensions between parents of a local school's...
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Should You Take A Spin With Sun Records?
What is this thing? Sun Records is an eight-part hour-long drama on CMT -- yes, that's right, Country Music Television -- telling the history of Memphis's legendary Sun Records, the upstart label that...
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Is My Brother, My Brother And Me Ready To Face Life Beyond The Podcast?
What Is This Thing? It's important to know that the McElroy brothers are not experts, and their advice should never be followed. They are, however, three brothers from West Virginia who started up a...
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Should You Reopen The Cold Case Files Reboot?
What is this thing? It's pretty much right there in the title -- the show will delve into some of the 120,000 unsolved cold cases in the U.S., with help from modern forensics and social media, to try...
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Should You Hunt For National Treasure?
What is this thing? Paul Finchley, half of a Martin-and-Lewis or Fry-and-Laurie comedy team well into the Thalberg-trophy phase of its career (well...of the other half's career, any road; National...
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Should You Put Your Real Life On Hold For The Arrangement?
What Is This Thing? Sometime actress/most-of-the-time waitress Megan Morrison gets the break of her life when she gets a callback for a co-starring film role opposite A-list movie superstar Kyle West....
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Does Making History Make The Grade?
What Is This Thing? Dan -- a hapless-loser facilities manager at a small Boston college -- discovers time travel and spends his weekends going to the past. He falls in love with Paul Revere's...
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Will Time After Time Have You Returning Again And Again?
What Is This Thing? Hoping to get over a bad case of writer's block while penning his first novel, H.G. Wells invents a time machine in 1893 London. Before he's able to use the machine himself, it is...
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Is Ryan Murphy's Feud Good Enough To Make Sure Ya Are In That Chair Every Week?
What Is This Thing? FX embarks on its third active anthology series from producer Ryan Murphy, with the rough theme being "two real-life people who hated each other." First up: the legendary Old...
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Should You Team Up With The Partner?
What is this thing? The Profit meets The Apprentice. Not that anyone involved with the former will appreciate the reference to the latter, but it really is as simple as that. When is it on? Tuesdays...
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Will You Get A Kick Out Of Kicking And Screaming?
What Is This Thing? Sadly, Kicking And Screaming is a spinoff of neither the 1996 Noah Baumbach film, nor of the 2005 soccer-dad comedy starring Will Ferrell. Instead, it pairs a dozen outdoorsy...
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Can You Beat The Rap With Hip Hop Squares?
What is this thing? Hollywood Squares, as produced by Ice Cube. When is it on? "Usually"? ...Hee. HHS debuts Monday, March 13 at 10 PM, and VH1's devoted an entire "Hip Hop Squares Week" to hammering...
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Does Iron Fist Pack A Punch?
What Is This Thing? Danny Rand, scion of mega-corporation Rand Enterprises, returns to New York City fifteen years after surviving a plane crash in the Himalayas that killed both of his parents. The...
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Should You Aim Your DVR At Shots Fired?
What Is This Thing? A North Carolina town is thrown into turmoil after a cop shoots an unarmed man, but this isn't your usual humdrum police shooting! In this case, the cop is black and the victim is...
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Should You Get Into Bed With Harlots?
What Is This Thing? Margaret Wells (Samantha Morton), a mid-level madam in 18th-century London, tries to claw her way into the fancy echelons of the sex industry, and bring her daughters Charlotte and...
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Can Prison Break Escape From Its Former Ending?
What is this thing? Michael Scofield, erstwhile escapee from multiple prisons, was last seen eight years ago in Prison Break: The Final Break, opting to blow himself up in a prison rather than succumb...
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Does Brockmire Hit One Out Of The Park?
What Is This Thing? In 2007, legendary baseball announcer Jim Brockmire gets fired following a drunken, profanity-laden, on-air meltdown when he learns his wife has been cheating on him. After...
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Should You Buzz In For Talk Show The Game Show?
What Is This Thing? What if guests on talk shows could earn points for hitting all the traditional tropes that define panel interviews? It would be Talk Show The Game Show. When Is It On? Wednesdays...
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Will The Toy Box Be The Tickle Me Elmo Of TV Shows?
What Is This Thing? It's Shark Tank but for toys. Also, with kids instead of Mark Cuban. When Is It On? Fridays at 8 PM ET on ABC, starting April 7. Why Was It Made Now? Shark Tank has done well and...
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Will Guerrilla Convince You To Join The Revolution?
What Is This Thing? Guerrilla tells the story of a mixed race couple who become revolutionaries in 1970s England. Marcus (Babou Cessay) and his girlfriend Jas (Freida Pinto) are committed civil rights...
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Does Great News Live Up To Its Name?
What Is This Thing? Katie, a producer for the nightly news program Breakdown, discovers that her struggle to be taken seriously as a journalist just got a lot more complicated when her mother joins...
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Should You Hearken To The Handmaid's Tale?
What Is This Thing? After a theocratic coup falsely represented as an ISIS attack reduces America to just two states (the rest known as Gilead, governed by a fundamentalist Christian junta), Offred...
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Will You Have A Burning Desire To Watch Fire Island?
What Is This Thing? The Real Housegays of Slut Island. (I mean "slut" in only the most empowering, sex-positive, non-shaming way, of course.) Fire Island (the place) is a narrow island near New York...
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Dear White People Has A Lot To Say
What Is This Thing? At the fictional -- but mostly white and very wealthy -- Winchester University, several African-American students tackle a slew of social and personal problems as they negotiate a...
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Will American Gods Answer Your Prayers?
What Is This Thing? Why, it's an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel about the old-world gods that came to America with each new wave of immigrants! Now, however, the vintage deities are losing...
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Can You Drink Enough To Love Southern Charm Savannah?
What Is This Thing? Southern Charm Savannah is another show, in the grand tradition begun by the original Southern Charm, in which rich white people with shiny hair drink, gossip, have "jobs," get...
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Will You Make Bosom Friends With Anne With An E?
What Is This Thing? In late 19th-century rural Prince Edward Island, brother-and-sister farmers Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert gamble on adopting a pre-teen boy to help out on their farm. Both are...
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Will You Love I Love Dick?
What Is This Thing? Chris Kraus (Kathryn Hahn), an unsuccessful independent filmmaker, accompanies her husband Sylvere (Griffin Dunne) to an art colony in Marfa, TX. There, she develops a sexual...
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Should You RSVP 'Yes' For Invite Only Cabo?
What is this thing? "The series follows celebrity hair stylist Larry Sims as he invites a handful of his closest friends, some who have never met, on what seems like a once-in-a-lifetime getaway." In...
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Is Downward Dog A Good Boy?
What Is This Thing? Nan, a low-level ad exec for an Abercrombie & Fitch-esque clothing giant, spends her days coming up with catchy campaigns and her nights with her dog, Martin. But that's really...
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Will The Keepers Keep You Awake At Night?
What Is This Thing? The Keepers is a seven-part Netflix documentary series about the 1969 disappearance and murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, a nun and English teacher at Baltimore's Archbishop Keough...
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Will You Make A Love Connection?
What Is This Thing? It's Love Connection, updated with Andy Cohen and a set that looks like the shared bedroom of the Queen of Hearts and Caesar Flickerman from The Hunger Games. When is it on?...
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Will You Fall In Love With Still Star-Crossed Or Take Poison To Avoid It?
What Is This Thing? A sequel to Romeo And Juliet centered on Juliet's cousin Rosaline (who, you may recall, is the girl Romeo's in love with as the play begins, though it's unclear if that has...
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Should You Let World Of Dance Hoof Its Way Into Your Heart?
What Is This Thing? World Of Dance is a ten-episode summer dance competition that head judge Jennifer Lopez compares to "the Olympics of dance." From the looks of it and the fact that it's on NBC,...
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Does I'm Dying Up Here Stand Up To Peak TV Scrutiny?
What Is This Thing? Based on William Knoedelseder's 2010 non-fiction book on the heyday of the Los Angeles comedy scene, this Jim Carrey-produced, ten-episode dramedy is about mostly neurotic...
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Does Daytime Divas Dish Soapy Summer Fun?
What Is This Thing? Live TV viewers of RuPaul's Drag Race have asked that question many a time, as the commercial for Daytime Divas -- which features star Vanessa Williams strutting across a set while...
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