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This week's topics include Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale," HBO's "Mare of Easttown," and HBO Max's "Love and Death."

On this week’s episode, Ben, Libby, and Leo go long on three topics: Sunday’s Oscars, the finale of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” and the second episode of “Mare of Easttown.” First, Ben discusses his C+ review of Sunday’s Academy Awards and how successful producers Steven Soderbergh, Jesse Collins, and Stacey Sher were at re-inventing the awards show as a “movie...

On this week’s episode of Millions of Screens, Ben leads a spoiler-free discussion about HBO’s newest limited series, “Mare of Easttown,” which stars Kate Winslet as a hardscrabble detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigating a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart...

On this week’s Millions of Screens, Libby, Ben, and Leo talk through the results of this past weekend’s DGA Awards and where that leaves the various races for the fall’s Emmy ceremony. Additionally, Ben regales Leo and Libby with just what HBO Max’s “The Nevers” is, which is to say not a Victorian superhero team. And finally, Ben and Libby, each from a small town, talk about the HBO documentary “Our Towns” and how accurately it captures life in rural America.

On this week's episode of Millions of Screens, Ben and Libby discuss the current craze of shows deliberately starting in medias res sometimes to the detriment of the narrative itself. Additionally, Libby walks us through the results from the SAG Awards, Ben and Leo somehow agree on Disney+'s 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,' and Executive Editor Ann Donahue joins for a special 'Bridgerton' edition of Corgi Corner.

On this week’s episode of Millions of Screens, Ben, Libby, and Leo go long on the release of ‘Godzilla vs. Kong,’ the latest movie in Warner Bros. MonsterVerse, and ponder how TV contributes to the burgeoning trend of cinematic universes — some of which even extend to TV (like ‘WandaVision’ and ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’). Additionally, Libby previews Sunday’s SAG awards and Ben gets excited about the cast sheet for Disney+’s forthcoming ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ series.

On this week's episode of Millions of Screens, Ben, Libby, and Leo break down the current state of HBO Max roughly 10 months after its rocky launch. With the streamer three months into its cinematic day-and-date experiment and having just released The Snyder Cut, it seems like positive buzz is on the upswing...