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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.’ on Max, A Docuseries History of the Pioneering Record Label And Its Stirring Sound
By Johnny Loftus • 133 SharesIn the Max docuseries Stax: Soulsville U.S.A., you’ll thrill to some great old songs as you learn about the label’s important role in the history of America and popular... -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘In Limbo’ on Hulu, An Australian Sitcom With A Message About Loss And Loving What You Have
By Johnny Loftus •2 Guys, A Girl, And One Guy’s A Ghost: In Limbo is an Aussie sitcom with a very bold premise! -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Let It Be’ on Disney+, A Restored, Sometimes Rocking Version Of The Long Unavailable Beatles Documentary
By Johnny Loftus •Only randomly available for decades, Let It Be streams on Disney+ with a restored look at the Beatles in the months before they broke up for good. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ Season 3 on Prime Video, Where The Curmudgeonly ‘Top Gear’ Presenter Raises New Gripes Down On His Farm
By Johnny Loftus •Jeremy Clarkson’s back for more agricultural whimsy in the third season of Clarkson’s Farm. Can he make the land hum like a well-tuned Lambo? -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Stop Making Sense’ on Max, A24's 40th Anniversary Restoration Of Jonathan Demme’s Landmark Talking Heads Concert Film
By Johnny Loftus •Talking Heads’ momentous 1983 concert film Stop Making Sense is reborn in a 40th anniversary remaster that looks and sounds better than ever. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Behind The Music: Bell Biv DeVoe’ on Paramount+, Catching Up With The '90s New Jack Swingers in 2024
By Johnny Loftus •Miss her, kiss her, love her, wrong move you're dead – that girl might be “Poison,” but in Behind the Music: Bell Biv Devoe, her era’s remembered fondly. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Action’ on Peacock, A Docuseries Taking A Look At The Stunt Performers And New Techniques At Work In Today’s Biggest Action Movies
By Johnny Loftus •Before you see The Gos play a stuntman in The Fall Guy, see Action, a docuseries about the work of actual stunt people. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story’ on Hulu, A Docuseries Checking In On The New Jersey Rockers As They Celebrate 40 Years As A Band
By Johnny Loftus •Shot through the heart! But who’s to blame? Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story lets the band sort that out after 40 years as a thing. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘TLC Forever’ on Netflix, A Doc Chronicling The Groundbreaking Trio’s Rise To Fame And What Came After
By Johnny Loftus •TLC Forever takes a look back at what made one of the best-selling girl groups of all time great. Add “Waterfalls” and “Scrubs” to your next playlist. They’re still... -
‘Shōgun’ Series Finale Recap: “A Dream Of A Dream”
By Johnny Loftus •“I don’t control the wind. I only study it.” -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Proof Is Out There: Military Mysteries’ on History, Analyzing and Debriefing Stories From Curious Corners Of Wartime Lore
By Johnny Loftus •New series The Proof Is Out There: Military Mysteries would fit right into a past era of grazing cable programming on a lazy Saturday afternoon. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Hip-Hop And The White House’ on Hulu, A Doc That Explores How And Where Rap And Politics Have Met Throughout History
By Johnny Loftus •From the moment it began, there was political power in rap. The new doc Hip-Hop and the White House puts a spotlight on where that conversation sparked. -
‘Shōgun’ Episode 9 Recap: “Crimson Sky”
By Johnny Loftus •“Accepting death isn’t surrender. Flowers are only flowers because they fall.” -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Immediate Family’ on Hulu, A Music Doc That Celebrates The Session Musicians Who Brought A Generation Of Jams To Life
By Johnny Loftus •Among other things, the music doc Immediate Family will put a face and name with the epic guitar sample that drives “Bootylicious” by Destiny’s Child. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel’ on Netflix, A Short Doc About One Of Hollywood's Leading Composers
By Johnny Loftus •Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel travels inside the mind and creative studio of one of the most significant film composers of the last thirty years. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Blood Free’ on Hulu, A Korean Drama With Miracle Meat, Corporate Intrigue, And Dangerous Secrets
By Johnny Loftus •In the Korean drama Blood Free, a company’s fake meat tech is under attack, along with its CEO. Who can she trust? And can we trust her? -
‘Shōgun’ Episode 8 Recap: “Abyss of Life”
By Johnny Loftus •The ornate and beautiful tea ceremony sequence that centers this episode is another finely-rendered example of how the series values patience. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Fable’ on Hulu, A Bloody, Sneaky Funny Anime Adaptation Of A Popular Manga Title
By Johnny Loftus •The Fable adapts a famous manga title about a legendary assassin into a bloody anime that is also really funny. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem’ on Netflix, A Doc That Presents 4Chan As The Patient Zero Of Today’s Diet Of Disinformation
By Johnny Loftus •The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem links our anxious social media existence backward, all the way to 2003 and the rise of 4Chan. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Cult Justice’ on Hulu, A True Crime Series Focusing On Cult Leaders, How They Were Caught, And The Voices Of Their Victims
By Johnny Loftus •Hasn’t true crime covered all of the cults already? Nope! Docuseries Cult Justice is here to illustrate even more evil, and how it was countered.