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Like You'd Expect an Endorsement from a Blog Called Tuned In

Just to show I’m a good sport, I thought I’d mention it’s TV Turnoff Week again. The good folks at TV Turnoff Network are inexhaustible, but I’m not, so here’s my case against TV Turnoff Week from last year, served up for you again like the Stamberg-family cranberry relish recipe NPR brings out every Thanksgiving. [...]

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Sopranoswatch: Damn You, Daddy, Sir

HBO Father’s Day came early on The Sopranos last night, and, typically, it was celebrated not with cards and neckties but with fisticuffs and Oedipal showdowns, actual and remembered. There was Tony, recalling his father’s salad days with Uncle Junior and Paulie Walnuts, and his current conflicted feelings toward “Uncle Paulie”; Uncle Junior’s mental-facility protege [...]