Noel Murray

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Noel Murray

Dina learns the truth. Ellie learns a hard lesson about the unintended consequences of vengeance. In an interview with Collider last week, "The Last of Us" co-showrunner Craig Mazin estimated that it will take four seasons for him and the video game's co-creator Neil Druckmann to adapt the two "Last of Us" games properly. I found this comment a bit surprising. Mazin and Druckmann covered most of the first "Last of Us" game in an action-packed Season 1.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Noel Murray

Sometimes I wonder if the Poker Face casting department is a little too good. Like, I love Sherry Cola, but I don’t know that the show needed a comic actor with her considerable skills to deliver, say, five or six lines in this season’s “Last Looks.” And in this week’s “Hometown Hero,” Ego Ngwodim is more or less wasted as a minor league baseball radio broadcaster who’s addicted to canned cheese. Gil Birmingham also barely leaves much of an impression as the team’s manager, Skip Dooley.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Noel Murray

20 hours agoIn March 2024, I wrote a column about President Biden’s State of the Union speech with a confident headline that made perfect sense to me at the time: “Chill out, my fellow Americans. Your president isn’t cognitively impaired.” Boy was I wrong. For months, critics and supporters had been raising …

1 month ago | avclub.com | Noel Murray

Now we get the circle back, learning that Charlie ditched the Bowling Green plan and stayed in Florida, where she volunteers at a gator sanctuary and befriends a band of animal liberationists, led by the charismatic Hutch (Shiloh Fernandez). These guerrillas are at the FlopaCopas the night of Joe’s poisoning, posing as cater-waiters, intending to make a big public splash by freeing Daisy.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Noel Murray

The Atlantic ran an article last week about the life and work of Carl Hiaasen, the best-selling crime novelist whose books are filled with quintessential Florida Men and Florida Women: crooks, con artists, daredevils, and wastrels, all chasing an easy payday and an early happy hour. The article’s author Amy Weiss-Meyer argues that the whole of the USA right now is under siege by these same kinds of headline-grabbing weirdos, who have turned this country into a cartoon version of itself.