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Sara Smith

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Fear the Walking Dead: Season 1 (2015) 76% EDIT “Fear the Walking Dead isn't essential TV for anyone but Walking Dead fanatics, but with just six episodes in its first season, it's a fast-paced, character-driven look at the power of information.” – Kansas City Star Oct 29, 2015 Full Review Wolf Hall: Season 1 (2015) 98% EDIT “Cromwell has inhabited most history books as a shadowy figure, but Wolf Hall brings him into the light, quickly sketching the tragedies and triumphs that motivated England's most notorious lawyer to insert himself into royal politics.” – Kansas City Star Oct 19, 2015 Full Review Fargo: Season 2 (2015) 100% EDIT “Season 2 of Fargo tells another gripping Midwestern gangster tale.” – Kansas City Star Oct 12, 2015 Full Review The Bastard Executioner: Season 1 (2015) 45% EDIT “Every aspect of FX's new medieval drama is obscene, from the needlessly degrading sex scenes to the gleeful throat-slitting. Its most heinous offense is burying its promising premise in a pile of corpses before a talented cast can find the story's pulse.” – Kansas City Star Sep 17, 2015 Full Review EDIT “This True Detective installment was so uneven, it can only be embraced as camp.” – Kansas City Star Aug 12, 2015 Full Review Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll: Season 1 (2015) 59% EDIT “The show's salty-sweet themes of loyalty and redemption contrast nicely with the vile comedic speeches Leary has made a career out of delivering.” – Kansas City Star Jul 16, 2015 Full Review Scream: Season 1 (2015) 53% EDIT “The TV version of Scream has so much fun gutting its origin story for inspiration, it almost forgets to be scary.” – Kansas City Star Jun 29, 2015 Full Review True Detective: Season 2 (2015) 47% EDIT “Although it was wise not to try to repeat the double interrogation format of the first season, there are clever nods to those closed-room confessionals, and the show eventually eases into rewarding drive-and-talks between Farrell and McAdams.” – Kansas City Star Jun 22, 2015 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 5 (2015) 93% EDIT “If the first four hours of Season 5 are any indication, it's a more compelling, faster-paced and less frustrating journey than fans were treated to in "A Feast for Crows" and "A Dance With Dragons."” – Kansas City Star Apr 13, 2015 Full Review Mad Men: Season 7, Episode 8 (2015) EDIT “Herein lies the addictive nature of the show - the action pauses for just a moment, the acting thrums with tension, and you feel satisfied that you have been a good student.” – Kansas City Star Apr 6, 2015 Full Review Marvel's Daredevil: Season 1 (2015) 99% EDIT “Daredevil stands alone as an artful, gritty ensemble drama that could elevate the superhero origin story like HBO's "True Detective" did for the crime procedural.” – Kansas City Star Apr 6, 2015 Full Review The Comedians: Season 1 (2015) 58% EDIT “The results are equal parts hilarious and cringe-inducing, which is the desired effect of "The Comedians" itself. So it all works out.” – Kansas City Star Apr 2, 2015 Full Review Younger: Season 1 (2015) 97% EDIT “Younger is from Sex and the City creator Darren Star, which in this case means it's a well-done but not earth-shattering excuse to watch actresses wear clothes on location around New York City.” – Kansas City Star Apr 2, 2015 Full Review Weird Loners: Season 1 (2015) 44% EDIT “The actors don't seem like they're always on the same show, even when they're in the same scene.” – Kansas City Star Apr 2, 2015 Full Review The Americans: Season 3 (2015) 100% EDIT “The moral quicksand that made The Americans so compelling for its first two seasons is deeper than ever.” – Kansas City Star Jan 27, 2015 Full Review Sons of Liberty: Season 1 (2015) 58% EDIT “You'll feel the drama unfold more viscerally if you aren't a history buff.” – Kansas City Star Jan 27, 2015 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 4, Episode 10 (2014) EDIT “Tyrion Lannister, as they say in no-limit poker, is all in.” – Kansas City Star Jan 7, 2015 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 4, Episode 9 (2014) EDIT “As Clint Eastwood said in Unforgiven, "We all got it coming, kid."” – Kansas City Star Jan 7, 2015 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 4, Episode 8 (2014) EDIT “Hello! My name is Oberyn Martell. You killed my sister. Prepare to die.” – Kansas City Star Jan 7, 2015 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 4, Episode 7 (2014) EDIT “Never has Tyrion Lannister looked so small as he does this week, slouched in his filthy dungeon cell, the rush of last week's defiant speech fading.” – Kansas City Star Jan 6, 2015 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 4, Episode 6 (2014) EDIT “We've never seen Tyrion angry before, not really.Peter Dinklage's epic courtroom confession, one of the best in recent television, dances along the edge of overwrought during the "on trial for being a dwarf" moment.” – Kansas City Star Jan 6, 2015 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 4, Episode 5 (2014) EDIT “"Oathkeeper" is the best example yet of the showrunners' most basic challenge: keeping the action moving on all fronts while keeping the story coherent. It succeeds, despite feeling a bit manic.” – Kansas City Star Jan 5, 2015 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 4, Episode 4 (2014) EDIT “The slave masters of Meereen are evil, no doubt, but crucifixion? Emilia Clarke ascending a pyramid as the tortured screams rise from below? This is how megalomaniacs are born. Soon she'll be unable to tolerate anything but the adoration.” – Kansas City Star Jan 5, 2015 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 4, Episode 3 (2014) EDIT “If someone chops off Jaime Lannister's other hand, will he stop raping his sister? Because we could all use a break from that. Don't force us to feel sorry for Cersei.” – Kansas City Star Jan 5, 2015 Full Review The Red Tent: Season 1 (2014) 77% EDIT “The Red Tent is an enjoyable tale of one woman's survival.” – Kansas City Star Dec 10, 2014 Full Review
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