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FNL and MLK

It’s appropriate that this MLK Day should fall during the final run of The Wire, one of TV drama’s best treatments of race. That said, I don’t have a Wire Watch for you yet–I’ll try to get one up later today or maybe tomorrow (today being a low-traffic day, since it’s a holiday for many [...]

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The Morning After: We Footballed!

Is there still a writers’ strike on? The newspaper says there is, and yet last night we had a choice among a new episode of The Wire, the pilot of Breaking Bad and the finale of The Amazing Race. Oh, yeah, and some game. After celebrating Mrs. Tuned In’s day-before-her-birthday, I sat down for one [...]