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Netflix loves itself a heist drama — and its latest one, greenlit on Wednesday, hails from executive producer Courtney A. Kemp (overlord of the Power universe) and series creator Tani Marole.
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 5 Mar. 2025
Elsewhere, June’s former overlord and foe, Serena Joy Watford (Yvonne Strahovski), tries to make sense of her role in this new landscape, and perhaps even bring reform to Gilead.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
Kitana, as well as Martyn Ford (House of David, Those About to Die) as Outworld overlord Shao Kahn.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Kidding, but that does seem like something the corporate overlords might say.
—Abby Monteil, Them, 15 Jan. 2025
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But filmmaker Feras Fayyad, who endured torture in Assad’s prisons, never gave up the certainty that one day the dictator would be ousted.—
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As soon as the dictator was out, Samer Jalbout was on the move.—
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The assailants are domestic extremists whose aim is to further an agenda of tyrants and oligarchs.—
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It was used, with the blood of brave Ukrainians, to defend their country from a tyrant’s aggression.—
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The Mobutu regime finally fell to rebels in 1997, and the despot who had looted over $5 billion in wealth from his land was forced into exile to Morocco.—
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When Trump announced recently that the program would be killed, there were celebratory announcements from petty despots around the world—in Belarus, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador.—
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But even there the story of a princess — daughter of an emperor — allows one to draw comparison to contemporary times.—
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In the end, he may be listed along with Roman emperors who ran amok like Nero and Caligula.—
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The people of Israel welcome Jesus as king while his disciples anticipate his crowning.—
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In the early 1980s, Chamberlain gained a reputation as the king of the miniseries for his starring roles in Shogun, The Thorn Birds and Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story.—
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She's been linked to everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio to a Saudi prince, and was even married to Donald Trump Jr. for 13 years.—
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The prince is disappointed in his offspring — the family has gone to seed.—
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By contrast, given Russia's dominant role in the CU, joining that group would transform Yanukovych into a satrap of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whom Yanukovych regards as the avatar of Russian arrogance.—
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The quick collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satraps unsettled both nations.—
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Witkoff went from Qatar to Israel on Saturday and insisted on having a meeting with the prime minister on the afternoon of the Jewish sabbath—a violation of Israeli protocol rudely designed to remind Netanyahu who was the vassal and who was the suzerain.—
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Citizens of countries historically exploited by the West face higher financial and bureaucratic hurdles to access facilities and resources concentrated in their former suzerain.—
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“Overlord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlord. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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