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  • Culture - Film/TV - Weekly Features

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

    1 December 2024

    Mary Buchanan — Excerpt: The only question left for you to consider now is what happens when Mickey shows his shadows—his deeper, fallible, more steeped-in-sin-human qualities—over what audiences have been conditioned to expect.

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    Sahana Ahmed — Excerpt: All the fans of the show — scores of millions worldwide — “stared” at him. He was in a funk, but he had to be funny. 

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