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Recent Examples of MephistophelesBut if Roy is Mephistopheles, Jon is a force of light.—Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025 Inspired by the demon Mephistopheles, Mephisto lords over a dimension in the underworld and is determined to acquire as many souls of the living as possible.—Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024 Adrian started out as a theology student, but the stakes of Mann’s novel are not, at heart, theological—Adrian has a maddening case of syphilis, and that is the secular portal through which Mephistopheles makes his entry.—James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024 The Kit Kat Club’s master of ceremonies is a kind of Mephistopheles, and also—if an actor really nails it—a sinister mirage of ambiguity.—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024 In the Mephistopheles movement, Bernstein augments the infernal atmosphere by having the strings play sul ponticello—a ghastly slithering of the bow near the bridge.—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
The network has also ordered Blue Bloods offshoot Boston Blue, CIA (starring Lucifer’s Tom Ellis) and the Harriet Dyer comedy DMV for next season.
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Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
2 May 2025
Ellis, who headlined Lucifer for its six-season run on Fox and Netflix, recently did a season-long arc on Hulu’s Tell Me Lies and will play a lead opposite Sterling K. Brown on the upcoming Hulu limited series Washington Black.
The Zeros are sworn to Evil and to its incarnate commander, Beelzebub (Fabrice Luchini), who barks his orders from a Versailles-like castle in the sky above the village.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2025
Fraser was bedeviled by Elizabeth Hurley’s Beelzebub in Bedazzled (2000), earned career-best reviews for the Vietnam drama The Quiet American (2002), and landed a role in the Best Picture-winning Crash (2004).
Local truffles are also on sale, not pungent but neither pricey and historically called devil’s mushroom by those who considered them as food for witches.
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Tom Mullen,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
On her journey, Gerda makes friends with people, birds, beasts, and a kind witch, unaware that a hostile, unseen enemy – the Snow Queen and her devil apprentice, Louie – is watching her.
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