The Mirror and the Light opens with that profoundly disturbing execution, Foy a pale rictus of fear and vulnerability as she is led to the block, where she is blindfolded and positioned before the executioner’s sword.
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Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2025
No longer the beloved Renaissance prince of his youth, Henry was, by his mid-40s, an increasingly infirm and mercurial monarch who had few qualms about sending his closest companions—among them the aforementioned Thomas More—to the executioner’s block.
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Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
Now, while media and fans are all crunching the numbers and trying to predict who will die and who their murderer is in Season 3, several people involved with the series are effectively telling audiences to brace themselves for something big in the finale, which will run 90 minutes.
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Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
There tends to be a bit of pitch-black comedy wrapped up in its deaths (see: Tanya toppling to her death after escaping her would-be murderers in season 2).
In The Accountant 2, premiering April 25 in theaters, Affleck and Bernthal reunite as brothers Christian and Braxton, who come together to help track down a mysterious assassin.
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Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
16 Apr. 2025
The beret-lover with the $20,000 necklace (Lauren McKnight) was the second assassin.
Several other leading figures of the period ended their days on the executioner’s block, including the unhappy Comte de Chalais, whose headsman bungled the job and ended up frantically chopping away at his screaming victim with a small hatchet.
Rachel’s mother Patty Morin drew an implicit parallel between her daughter’s killer and Abrego Garcia at her White House appearance, even though the latter has never been charged with a crime.
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Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
17 Apr. 2025
Moat did attract a sick fandom, but that sort of ugly love does not stay a killer’s hand.
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