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Emmy Review: Supporting Actor in a Drama

By Abe Friedtanzer

There were a staggering 455 men on this particular ballot, the most in any category this year (and ever). It’s a wonder that five shows are still represented by eight nominees. The question is whether actors whose costars are nominated – like the boys from Succession or Critics Choice winner Billy Crudup – can distinguish themselves like Peter Dinklage managed to do last year with his fourth trophy for Game of Thrones. Or will having no internal competition propel someone else to the win?

I’ll try to avoid major plot details in my analysis – but if you’d like more spoiler-filled descriptions, click on the episode titles. Let’s consider each nominee…

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Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020)

by Cláudio Alves

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— Chadwick Boseman (@chadwickboseman) August 29, 2020

Death comes to us all. It doesn't choose and it doesn't spare or take pity on anyone. Even if the temporariness is a necessity of life, loss can take us all by surprise. It also hurts, so much. Often, we don't even need to know a person to grieve their departure, to feel that the world became smaller without them, that there's now a void where a bright star used to shine. Chadwick Boseman was such a star... 

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How Had I Never Seen... "Candyman"?

by Cláudio Alves

The Nia DaCosta-directed, Jordan Peele-produced, Candyman is scheduled to arrive in American theaters later this year. In the meantime, the original Candyman, a 1992 horror classic freely adapted from Clive Barker's The Forbidden, is newly streaming on Netflix. With all that in mind, this seemed like a great time to finally watch that acclaimed nightmare of 90s cinema, a picture I've long heard about and have considered one of my great blind spots as a fan of horror movies.

Despite astronomically high expectations, Candyman did not disappoint…

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