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‘Big Brother’ Week Seven Recap: The Crying Game

The Olympics are on right now which makes it incredibly hard to watch lots of television, especially when CBS preempts the Big Brother Thursday night live show for a garbage pre-season New York Trashcan Men football game. But the thing I love most about the Olympics are this: storylines, competition, and victory. All reasons why I love Big Brother. What a coincidence. It’s like having a mini-Olympic games every week of every summer.

By Matt Ringler

Amazon Pilot Reviews: Out-of-Sync ‘Z’ Doesn’t Do the Fitzgeralds Any Favors

“I want to go someplace shiny and new, that’s not obsessed with the past,” exclaims Zelda Sayre (Christina Ricci) in Amazon’s new pilot Z. Considering this is Amazon’s first dabble into a period piece, the line could be read as ironic--after all, the last time we saw a reasonable facsimile of Zelda on-screen it was Alison Pill in Midnight in Paris, a movie whose protagonist eschewed the shiny and new and was himself obsession with the past--but delivered with the wild-eyed zeal of Ms. Ricci’s character, it’s more of a declaration of destiny.

By Drew Grant

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