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Mikhail's TV Digest #19 Sums Up a Slow Period
October 2024 Posts
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October 2024

Why is this Michael Keaton thriller Censored on Amazon?
The Confusing Case of 'Pacific Heights'
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Substack Now Has a Semi-Hidden ‘Film & TV’ Category
How to find it and other Missing Category Tabs
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A Guide to The Matrix Retrospective
A Special Navigation Menu for the ongoing project
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September 2024

Mikhail's TV Digest #18 PLUS Alien 3 and Hobbit 2 Climax Similarities
August-September Posts, Also Some Revisio-News, and a Scheduling Update
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Alien Super 8 Digest Version has ironic alternate ending
A rare version of the film would play better today than when it was released
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August 2024

Will Paramount's "School Spirits" S2 capitalize on the Netflix Effect?
What multi-platforming could achieve for streaming originals
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'Erased' TV Originals Return to Streaming, Nobody Cares
Media silence about 'Gordita' and 'Amy Schumer' on Hulu.
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The Best 'Rebel Moon' is a 5-hour remix of the Snyder and Netflix Cuts
A proposal for a new cut in-between the PG-13 and R-rated editions
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July 2024

Mikhail's TV Digest #17: Two Months of Bi-Weekly Posts and Site News
June-July, Scheduling, FTNC Updates + Deadpool and X-Men
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How ‘Glass’ Retcons ‘Unbreakable’ to Fit the Lore of ‘Split’
On the evolution of superpowers in M. Night Shyamalan's trilogy
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