Dispatches From Elsewhere Review: Jason Segel Returns to TV With a Quirky, Unpredictable Series

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Kelly Clarkson goes nostalgic.

Joshua Jackson showed some PDA with his pregnant wife, Jodie Turner-Smith, days before her due date.

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Janice’s episode brings into focus a theme that’s been building throughout the show: people brought into the Jejune and Elsewhere world are all battling some type of loneliness. With Peter, it’s loneliness borne of personality — he’s a wallflower who doesn’t know how to live vivaciously.

Janice’s episode brings into focus a theme that’s been building throughout the show: people brought into the Jejune and Elsewhere world are all battling some type of loneliness. With Peter, it’s loneliness borne of personality — he’s a wallflower who doesn’t know how to live vivaciously.

Janice’s episode brings into focus a theme that’s been building throughout the show: people brought into the Jejune and Elsewhere world are all battling some type of loneliness. With Peter, it’s loneliness borne of personality — he’s a wallflower who doesn’t know how to live vivaciously.

Janice’s episode brings into focus a theme that’s been building throughout the show: people brought into the Jejune and Elsewhere world are all battling some type of loneliness. With Peter, it’s loneliness borne of personality — he’s a wallflower who doesn’t know how to live vivaciously.

In the first episode of Dispatches from Elsewhere we met Peter, Jason Segel’s main character who gets pulled into an apparent war between two mysterious entities that claim to offer something beyond ordinary life: the Jejune Institute and the Elsewhere Society.

In the first episode of Dispatches from Elsewhere we met Peter, Jason Segel’s main character who gets pulled into an apparent war between two mysterious entities that claim to offer something beyond ordinary life: the Jejune Institute and the Elsewhere Society.

Anthony Mackie poses with Nia Long at the premiere of their new movie, The Banker, held at the National Civil Rights Museum on Monday night (March 2) in Memphis, Tenn.

All sorts of things bring people together — from shared interests and beliefs to work, culture, and religion. On the trippy new AMC drama Dispatches From Elsewhere, four strangers connect — perhaps by chance, perhaps not so coincidentally at all — when they discover a puzzle hidden in plain sight. But having a common goal doesn't necessarily make small talk any easier.

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Oscar-nominated actor Richard E. Grant says he was attracted to his new role on AMC’s “Dispatches from Elsewhere” because he didn’t understand it.

When researching a new project, it's good to really throw yourself into it. Just ask Jason Segel.

Jason Segel wants to bring some magic into your life!

When researching a new project, it's good to really throw yourself into it. Just ask Jason Segel.

In Thursday's Last Man Standing ("I'm With Cupid") Mike (Tim Allen) gets so bothered with Joe (Jay Leno) and Vanessa's (Nancy Travis) friendship, he's driven to do some diabolical deeds. Mike, as we know, isn't somebody we'd label as laid back and easygoing, so when Joe and his wife start hanging out without him — having wine and talking about art and stuff — Mike ain't feeling it. Vanessa even starts inviting Joe over for dinner, pushing Mike to the point of taking action.

From its very first moments, when a silent Richard E. Grant stares intently into the camera, waiting for the audience's undivided attention, his patience as placid as the burnt orange backdrop behind him, the new drama Dispatches From Elsewhere screams: This is different.

It was an impromptu throwback moment for Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith on Monday as they were shopping in Home Depot.