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A former Confederate soldier seeks revenge for his wife’s death, determined to hunt down the men who killed her. Cullen Bohannon follows the trail of the murderers to the town of Hell on Wheels, a lawless, corrupt place inhabited by immigrants, outlaws, emancipated slaves, and lost souls. The town services the Union Pacific Railroad’s West construction of the first transcontinental railroad which is overseen by ‘Doc’ Durant.

AMC has produced another fine show with Hell On Wheels. This gritty post-Civil War Western set in the 1860′s has already been renewed for a second season. It is always good to see a realistic style Western that is done well and Hell On Wheels achieves this. The show covers wide-ranging themes of revenge, immigration, slavery, and the civilization of the West, making this show very watchable. The characters are interesting, and the cast is uniformly strong, with stand-out performances by Anson Mount as Cullen Bohannon, Colm Meaney as Thomas ‘Doc’ Durant, Dominique McElligott as Lily Bell, and Christopher Heyerdahl as The Swede. Common also gives a strong performance as freed slave Elam Ferguson.

Catch the final season one episodes of Hell on Wheels on AMC Sundays at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Check your local TV listings for more information.

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The new HBO film Game Change follows John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, from his selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, to their ultimate defeat in the general election. The film stars Ed Harris as John McCain and Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin. Coming in March, 2012.

Catch a preview of Game Change below.

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From acclaimed director Michael Mann and “Deadwood” creator David Milch, the nine-episode season of LUCK, starring Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman and Oscar nominee Nick Nolte, launches on HBO on January 29 at 9pm.  Luck is a behind-the-track look at the world of horse racing and gambling’s denizens – owners, trainers, jockeys and gamblers.  The pilot is directed by Mann and written by Milch, both of whom also serve as executive producers for the series.  It was filmed at Santa Anita Park and other Los Angeles locations.

Catch a preview of Luck below.

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2011
HBO 9:00-10:00 p.m.
 
 
 
 
 
 

With Nucky’s trial looming, Jimmy looks to make amends. After weighing an offer from Esther Randolph, Margaret makes a decision that will change the course of her future – and Nucky’s.

Catch previews of the Boardwalk Empire’s season finale below.

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The camera opens on a courtroom where a lawyer is questioning a witness about his alibi for the night of a crime. Although the witness is caught in the lie, the lawyer has little time to celebrate because he begins to feel short of breath and collapses to the floor.
When presented with the case, House suspects toxins. He tells Adams to search the home and Chase to run some tests and tells them to choose who they will take with them. At the same time, they both say “Taub.” House is intrigued as to why neither doctor wanted to take Park. But Adams quickly recants and says she’ll take Park and that it’s no big deal.

On the way over, Adams reassures Park that she likes her and that they work well together, even as they start arguing over the patient’s diagnosis. At the house, they can’t find any toxic chemicals, but they do find a hidden room containing a stockpile of guns and ammo to supply a small army.

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We all hate clowns, right? Well the kids at the birthday party in the opening scene of this week’s House agree with the rest of us. At the party, a visibly nervous clown is slowly trying to tie balloon animals and the kids are getting impatient. So much so, in fact, that one of the kids take the initiative and clocks the clown in the groin, after which the clown falls to the ground, starts shaking, and declares that he can’t move his arms or his legs.

Instead of concentrating on the patient, House would rather talk about Taub’s parental problems. It turns out Taub’s ex-wife and her new boyfriend want to move to Portland, taking his daughter with them, which he doesn’t want to happen. But House suggests that even though Taub wants to be a part of his daughter’s life, the baby doesn’t care either way. Taub is, of course, afraid he’ll mess up his kid if he isn’t around. And Chase interjects that all parents screw up all kids, so what does it matter where and when it happens. This leads House to quickly analyze how each member of his team was screwed up by their parents, except Adams, who insists that her parents were completely normal and didn’t mess her up in any way.

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Hollywood loves finding a fad, and this season fairytales are all the rage. From the multiple Snow White film adaptations, to the small screen where two new TV shows are bringing viewers their own spin on nursery tales: Once Upon A Time and Grimm. With both dramas tackling the idea that fairytales are real, to the untrained eye these two may seem identical. However, spend a little time looking at how Once and Grimm execute their fairytale-inspired plots and you will find you could not get two more radically different shows if you tried.

Let’s look at the first difference and the one most intrinsic to both show’s plots: the fairytales themselves. Once Upon A Time takes a literal approach. In the Once world fairytale creatures are real; there is a Snow White, there is a Rumpelstiltskin, there are spells and talking animals and the whole nursery rhyme shebang. Initially ensconced in their own magical kingdom, a wicked witch casts an equally wicked spell transporting Snow White, Prince Charming and the rest of the kingdom to our world. The spell also erases all knowledge of their magical beginnings; now all of the ex-fairytales are cursed to live out their lives sans memories in Storybrooke, a little town in Maine. (Maine specifically does not seem to be part of the curse, though really, it should be.) However, there is hope- Snow White’s daughter, Emma, was sent ahead of the rest due to a prophecy about her being the only one able to save them. Now a grown woman, Emma is persuaded to go to Maine by her son. The son, who she gave up for adoption, was raised in Storybrooke and recently uncovered the curse.

Grimm, on the other hand, gives itself a lot more wiggle room. The fairytale creatures in Grimm are actually a race of monsters called the blutbaden. Apparently back in the day two enterprising monster hunters, the Grimm brothers, catalogued the blutbaden’s profiles published them as fairytales, making it harder for the blutbaden to hide. Thus each type of blutbad, while matching up with a specific fairytale (the big bad wolf, the three bears) have their own twist — the ones that resemble wolves cannot stand the color red, the ones that resemble bears have complex coming of age rituals, etc. The plot then revolves around Portland, Oregon homicide detective Nick who learns he is a Grimm, a descendant of the original monster hunters, and must now take up their mantle.

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In the opening scene of the episode, a small town is honoring Bob, a 30-something local businessman and prominent member of the community, for his service to the town. But we quickly find out that he may not be as virtuous and honorable as he’d like everyone to know when we see him cheating on his wife with the local beauty queen in a seedy hotel room. But while having sex he suddenly becomes disoriented, feels shortness of breath, and then collapses.

House’s team is back together, now that he was able to get the money together to fund his department. Chase and Taub return, and we find out that in the meantime Chase quit medicine and that Taub went back into plastic surgery. On his first day back on the job, Taub has to find a babysitter for his two daughters, born from two women he got pregnant at the same time a little over a year ago. Now he’s with neither woman, but has both kids for a few days and asks Foreman, then Wilson, to help him babysit.

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