Margaret Lyons

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Margaret Lyons

The Spanish comedy "Her Majesty," on Amazon Prime Video (in Spanish, with subtitles), is set within the fictional, scandal-plagued royal family of Spain. It centers on Princess Pilar (Anna Castillo), who probably should have outgrown her party-girl ways by now. She can be surly and resentful, and she isn't as comfortable in the public eye as she'll need to be. But she's no dummy: She knows she'll be queen one day. She just didn't think she would have to step in like this.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Margaret Lyons

"Probably when I was canvassing for Obama, like '06," he says. Later, while enjoying some humiliation play in her neighbor's apartment, Molly picks up a photo. "Is this your dad?" she spits. "How did such an attractive man produce such a [expletive] like you?""That's not my dad," he says. "That's Bill DeBlasio."Cancer is what ends Molly's life, but being sexually abused as a 7-year-old by her mother's boyfriend is what poisoned it. She's haunted by the abuse.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Margaret Lyons

Image Right on the heels of "Common Side Effects" comes another animated pharmacological thriller, this time the Japanese anime series "Lazarus," which premieres, dubbed, on Saturday at midnight, on Adult Swim. The show is set in 2055, and a miracle pain killer that claims to free people from all suffering has become ubiquitous. Years after the mysterious Dr. Skinner released this drug, Hapna, he re-emerges with a second bombshell: After three years in your system, Hapna will kill you.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Margaret Lyons

This anime series on Adult Swim is filled with fantastic fight sequences but also deeper musings about the nature of existence and divinity. Right on the heels of “Common Side Effects” comes another animated pharmacological thriller, this time the Japanese anime series “Lazarus,” which premieres, …

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Margaret Lyons

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