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Aaron Sorkin: The Shyamalan of TV

As a professional snobby, elitist critic, I am not in the habit of saying that the masses are right. But I make an exception when they agree with me, and they seem to have come around to my side on the massively overrated Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the new self-aggrandizement vehicle from The [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Tuesday Night Football

Tonight on NBC, Friday Night Lights, one of the best dramas of the fall, with the potential to be the best, period. See my review in the Sept. 25 print version of Time, or without risk of paper cuts here. I won’t elaborate much on my review except to emphasize that, although the show is [...]