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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 421 days ago

Fringe Watch: Meeting in the Ladies' Room

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last night’s episode of Fringe coming up:* While it may not have been the high point that the emotional “Peter” from earlier this year was, “Entrada” was a pretty excellent action-focused episode, in which the dimensional swap between Fauxlivia and Realivia came to a head. In the process, it demonstrated that Fringe‘s writers [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 422 days ago

The Morning After: Back for Seconds

By James Poniewozik

Last night saw the debut of Top Chef: All-Stars, a season featuring the bring-’em-back device of many an aging reality show, which had me very dubious. But judging by the first installment, I’ll quite enjoy this trip through Judges’ Table history. For starters, Anthony Bourdain, who should be on every TV show, has been elevated [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 422 days ago

WikiLeaks and the Canadian-TV Menace

By James Poniewozik

I am starting to develop the theory that the WikiLeaks document dump will produce a rush of applications for State Department jobs. Security concerns aside, the juicy revelations have the effect of making career-diplomat work seem awesome: who knew that the U.S. had a cadre of professionals writing wry, snarky cables from the four corners [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 422 days ago

Terriers Watch: Should They Stay Or Should They Go?

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for the season finale of Terriers coming up: I am going to do my best not to write about Terriers, the series, in the past tense. Despite its ratings, I believe there’s still that chance that FX will realize it had—has! has!—a series too charming, well-written, and simply good to take off the air. [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | 423 days ago

Today in Firing: Walking Dead Writers, CBS Early Show Hosts

By James Poniewozik

You tend to associate the sudden mass firings of staff members with TV series that are not, shall we say, doing well. So it was surprising to see reports that, after The Walking Dead became AMC’s biggest hit and one of the biggest cable hits of the year overnight, producer Frank Darabont was firing the [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 423 days ago

Glee Watch: Sharing the Spotlight

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up: There is something about the prospect of a singing competition that concentrates the often-distractable mind of Glee. Where the episodes in between can lurch from brilliance to incoherence, the series’ first two climactic competition episodes, “Sectionals” and “Journey,” worked because they remembered that the characters’ conflicts have stakes [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 423 days ago

Sons of Anarchy Watch: The Long Con

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last night’s season finale of Sons of Anarchy coming up: “NS,” the final episode of season 3 of Sons of Anarchy, concluded with an elaborate switcheroo: a deftly handled, elaborate long con that upended expectations and reversed our perception of events startlingly. And I’m not talking about that con, the one that resolved [...]