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TV Weekend: To the Moon! (Etc.)

Yes, I have a picture of a Titan booster rocket on my blog, and yes, I am happy to see you. / NASA Discovery’s next big docu-showcase, When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, is another example of the technological limitations of contemporary TV criticism. The multi-night history of the space program, beginning Sunday night, [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: Second Thoughts

It’s been a week since the Lost finale, which makes this an opportune morning to relaunch the summer Lost Discussion Group. I don’t have a topic for you, but I have a good reason for that: I forgot. But I’m going to spin that as a good thing, because maybe the best way to kick [...]

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I Love L.A.

The city of Los Angeles is suing Tuned In’s soon-to-be-former corporate sibling, Time Warner Cable, for shoddy customer service. Mind you, I’m not a lawyer and can’t judge the validity of the suit one way or another. But I have to enjoy the idea of anyone creating headaches for a cable-company customer-service department, rather than [...]

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The Morning After: Got That Swing?

Ex-Deadwooder Parker goes from 1876 to 1976. / Cliff Lipson/CBS I feel like I may have been the only TV critic who really liked Swingtown, or close to it anyway. A running theme in several of the reviews was comparing it to fellow TV period piece Mad Men, unfavorably. (Alessandra Stanley’s review in the New [...]