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Glee Watch: Drop Dead (Drunk) Diva

By James Poniewozik

SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up after the jump:

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Sesame Street Does Mad Men

By James Poniewozik

Yesterday we examined how Sesame Street, gearing up for its 40th anniversary, is preparing to conscript your children into Michelle Obama’s Khmer-Rouge-like farming collectives. Today, the show attempts to introduce children to Cheeveresque drama of white-collar angst, through its version of Mad Men: This was brought to you by the letter P, for Pop Culture [...]

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The Morning After: Family Bonding

By James Poniewozik

After a series comes out with a very funny pilot, the test of the subsequent episodes is not only whether they can be as funny as the first, but whether the show has another gear: whether the characters are one-joke specials or if they have more dimensions to them. So far, with its second episode, [...]

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The Real Estate of Mad Men

By James Poniewozik

Fans of Mad Men are familiar with how meticulously it reproduces period details, but it’s still amazing, and a little weird at times, to see just how meticulous it is. Yesterday while Googling some information on the Ossining Reservoir, I came across the blog of J. Philip Faranda, an Ossining, N.Y., real estate agent, who [...]