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Who Is Kira in American Horror Story Season 13? Madelaine Petsch’s Character Explained
American Horror Story has always enjoyed introducing new characters beside familiar faces, and Season 13 is taking that idea considerably further. The new installment brings back characters from Murder House, Coven, Hotel, Cult and other chapters while building its central story around newcomer Ben DeSoto. Standing close to Ben at the beginning of that story…
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Who Is Ben DeSoto in American Horror Story Season 13? Joey Pollari’s Character Explained
American Horror Story: 13 may be bringing back an unusually large collection of familiar faces, but the new season is not being built entirely around nostalgia. While Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts and several other franchise veterans are revisiting characters from earlier installments, the person positioned at the center of the new…
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Who Is Nick Schaeffer in NCIS: New York? Scott Caan’s Character and Sam Hanna’s New Partner Explained
“NCIS: New York” may bring LL COOL J’s Sam Hanna back to familiar franchise territory, but CBS has surrounded him with an entirely new group of agents for his latest chapter. The most important newcomer is Nick Schaeffer, played by Scott Caan, who quickly becomes much more than the local agent assigned to help Sam…
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Who Is Schmitty in It’s Always Sunny? Jason Sudeikis’ Character Explained
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 18 reaches unusually far back into the show’s history when Mac, Dennis and Charlie become obsessed with a man they have not properly hung out with in years. Season 18 Episode 8, “Mac and Dennis Tear Their ACLs,” reveals that Peter “Schmitty” Schmidt has been sending increasingly elaborate Christmas…
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Who Is Jack in Line of Fire? Charlie Barnett’s Mysterious Character Explained
NBC’s Line of Fire initially presents the Hollingsworths as a complicated but recognizable family whose members happen to work across the Secret Service, FBI, U.S. Marshals and Department of Justice. The premiere then reveals that someone important has been missing from that family portrait. Jack Hollingsworth, played by Charlie Barnett, is Mike’s son from another…
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Who Is Pappy McPoyle in It’s Always Sunny? Guillermo del Toro’s Character Explained
Guillermo del Toro’s bizarre appearance in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 18 Episode 5 is not a random celebrity cameo created for the Renaissance Faire. He is reprising the role of Pappy McPoyle, the eccentric patriarch of the enormous McPoyle clan who first appeared more than a decade earlier. Pappy has been connected to…
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My Sad Dead Cast and Character Guide
My Sad Dead is less an ensemble of strangers than one complicated family surrounded by a neighborhood that keeps intruding on its grief. Pablo Larrain and Mariana Enriquez merge characters from several of Enriquez’s stories into the same bloodline, placing Ema at the center as a recently retired doctor whose ability to see the dead…
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Lioness Season 4 Cast: Who Could Return? Characters and Photos
Lioness Season 3 leaves almost every major character with unfinished business. Joe McNamara has survived the operation against her but returns to an empty home, Cruz Manuelos is pulled back toward a conflict rooted in her first Lioness mission, and the finale brings Aaliyah Amrohi back into the larger story. Paramount+ has not officially renewed…
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Who Is Ava in The Gilded Age Season 4? Adrienne Warren’s Character Explained
The Gilded Age Season 4 is bringing several new faces into its already sprawling New York society, but Adrienne Warren’s arrival is particularly interesting because her character is tied directly to Peggy Scott. Warren will play Ava, a previously unseen member of Peggy’s family who enters the story as Peggy’s relationship with Dr. William Kirkland…
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Stolen Heartbeats Cast and Character Guide: Who Plays Anabel, Rafael, Carlos and Lucía?
Netflix’s Stolen Heartbeats depends heavily on relationships because its short episodes leave little room for slow character introductions. Anabel’s medical crisis quickly connects a nurse who hears unexplained voices, a married doctor, a betrayed half-sister and a family hiding dangerous financial secrets. The organ-trafficking plot becomes increasingly complicated, but the emotional structure stays easy to…
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East of Eden Cast and Character Guide
Netflix’s East of Eden is built around a family story that refuses to remain within one generation. Zoe Kazan’s adaptation begins with Cathy Ames and brothers Adam and Charles Trask, then carries the consequences of their choices forward into the lives of Adam’s sons Cal and Aron. Florence Pugh, Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist drive…
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Is Line of Fire Based on a True Story? The Real-Life Inspirations Behind the Characters
NBC’s Line of Fire may be fictional, but the world surrounding the Hollingsworth family comes from more real-life experience than viewers might initially expect. Creator Joshua Safran drew the central idea from a family he knew whose members worked for the Secret Service, while executive producer Jenna Bush Hager brought firsthand knowledge of what it…