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3 days ago | 
screenrant.com | Ben Sherlock
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Warning! Spoilers ahead for Rick and Morty season 8, episode 5. Rick and Morty season 8, episode 5’s sci-fi satire of capitalist greed devolves into a hilarious spacebound spoof of a classic comedy from the ‘60s in its third act. Rick and Morty season 8, episode 5, “Cryo Mort a Rickver,” is an incisive commentary on the class divide.
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3 days ago | 
screenrant.com | Ben Sherlock
Published 10 minutes ago Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Quentin Tarantino has been hailed as one of the greatest dialogue writers working in Hollywood, but there’s a different dialogue writer that Tarantino himself looks up to.
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4 days ago | 
screenrant.com | Ben Sherlock
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account 12 years ago, Breaking Bad aired the best episode of its run, and quite possibly the best episode of television ever produced. Breaking Bad was still two episodes away from its series finale when it aired season 5, episode 14, “Ozymandias,” but that episode delivered all the shocking payoffs to five seasons’ worth of build-up.
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4 days ago | 
screenrant.com | Ben Sherlock
From Lost’s Ben Linus to The X-Files’ Cigarette Smoking Man, science fiction shows have been responsible for some of the most iconic villains in TV history. Television is a great medium to develop rivalries between heroes and villains, because the writers have many episodes over many years to build a complicated relationship between the characters. Justified spent its six seasons chronicling the battle between Raylan Givens and Boyd Crowder.
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4 days ago | 
screenrant.com | Ben Sherlock
From The Sopranos to Breaking Bad to the very first police procedural, Dragnet, some crime TV shows are so great that they ended up revolutionizing the genre. Crime shows have always been a staple of the television landscape. For as long as dramas have been produced for the small screen, audiences have been watching detectives solve mysteries.
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5 days ago | 
screenrant.com | Ben Sherlock
Published 10 minutes ago Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Peggy Olson always had a special connection with Roger Sterling in Mad Men, and one key detail of her character explains why he took such a shine to her. At the beginning of Mad Men’s seven-season run, Peggy is hired to be Don Draper’s secretary.
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5 days ago | 
screenrant.com | Ben Sherlock
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Ray Romano’s smash-hit sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond ended its run after season 9. Along with Friends and Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1990s. Millions of people tuned in every week to see the wacky Long Island misadventures of the Barone clan.
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6 days ago | 
screenrant.com | Ben Sherlock
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account HBO delivered one of the most disappointing series finales in TV history with Game of Thrones’ notoriously underwhelming ending, but it also aired the greatest finale of all time way back in 2005 with Six Feet Under’s ending. Game of Thrones ended its run with season 8, episode 6, “The Iron Throne,” in 2019.
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1 week ago | 
screenrant.com | Ben Sherlock
From The Office to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, there are some hugely influential sitcoms that changed the genre so drastically that they’re still being emulated by TV comedies today. There are few genres as rigid as the sitcom. Every sitcom has an ensemble cast of eccentric but lovable characters. Every week, they get into some wacky misadventures that are divided between an A-plot and a B-plot, which sometimes get intertwined (thanks to a narrative tactic pioneered by Seinfeld).
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screenrant.com | Ben Sherlock
Even after all these decades, the scariest episodes of The Twilight Zone are still terrifying today. The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling wanted to write TV shows about real-world atrocities like the murder of Emmett Till, but he struggled to get those scripts produced, because in the ‘50s and ‘60s, advertisers were very wary of the kind of content their clients’ ads were associated with.
