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JPTV: What I'm Mourning Tonight

The Morte de Television continues tonight, as NBC airs the final two pre-strike episodes of Chuck. I would say that I’m watching them, but I’ll probably TiVo them instead, and ration them out a few minutes at a time, like a nuclear-war survivor parceling out his remaining stash of tinned beans. Rolling it over my [...]

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Terminator: The Extremely Long Title Chronicles

I finally caught up with the third episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and I may be forced to revise my unimpressed initial review of the show. I’m still completely underwhelmed with Thomas Dekker as John and find the writing–especially Sarah’s voiceovers–too self-serious for its own good. But I’m getting drawn in to this [...]

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The Moment of Trite

Oh, Moment of Truth, how could you disappoint me so? From the get-go, Fox’s lie-detector game show sounded like the ultimate concept in trash TV: essentially, an amped-up, primetime version of The Jerry Springer Show or Dr. Phil disguised as a $500,000 competition. By asking contestants uncomfortable questions in front of their loved ones, it [...]

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The Morning After: In or Out?

Rami with Tim Gunn, who has “This worries me” written all over his face. / Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke SPOILER ALERT: There are no spoilers in this post. You may be wondering why you don’t get many Project Runway writeups here at Tuned in. If you’re not, well, I just went and wondered for you [...]