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Netflix’s ‘Jessica Jones’ fully embraces the #MeToo era

Superpowered private investigator Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), who’s been spending far too much time drinking and engaging in random sex, lies in bed, dead to the world, until her assistant, Malcolm (Eka Darville), knocks on the door that separates her bedroom from what passes for their office.

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Seth MacFarlane’s ‘The Orville” is neither funny nor sci-fi

When assessing Seth MacFarlane’s projects — “Family Guy,” “American Dad!,” “The Cleveland Show,” the “Ted” movies and “A Million Ways to Die in the West” — it’s important to keep things in perspective. With his success-to-failure ratio, as a baseball player, he’d be headed to the hall of fame. As a surgeon, he’d be headed to prison.

Brace yourself for the HBO-iest night yet

On Sunday, HBO will unveil what just may be its HBO-iest lineup yet. There’s the expensive, nudity-riddled big swing, the return of an acclaimed alumnus, and what I’ve come to call the HBO Endowment for the Arts series.

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