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TV Weekend: Sex and Drugs

Kirk Edwards/Showtime; Cliff Lipson/Showtime This Sunday Monday, Showtime returns Weeds and introduces the David Duchovny comedy Californication. I first heard about Californication and couldn’t wait to see it; then I watched it and kind of didn’t want to review it. I really like Duchovny, not just because of The X-Files; he’s a good comic actor [...]

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Mad Men Watch: For the Love of Pete

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this, put some slipcovers on your couch and watch Mad Men. AMC So: Pete–not a total unsympathetic worm? Who knew? Four episodes in, Mad Men is showing an intriguing ability to change itself up from week to week. The first two episodes handled the plot in the usual serial style, [...]

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TV Poll: Your Favorite Credits Sequence

Mad Men Watch will be a little late today–have a deadline for the stone-tablet version of Time magazine. In the meantime, a little something to keep you unproductive at your own job. In my post on cable shows yesterday, I offhandedly trashed Mad Men’s opening title sequence, but I notice that its viewers on YouTube [...]