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Programming Note

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | May 6, 2011 | +
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30 ROCK -- "Respawn" Episode 523 -- Pictured: Tina Fey as Liz Lemon -- Photo by: Ali Goldstein/NBC

I’m traveling through Monday night, so posting will be light here. I’ll have a Game of Thrones Watch ready to robo-post after Sunday’s episode airs, and a post on last night’s Parks and Recreation, which I’ve seen in advance. But it will be a while before I catch up on Thursday-night and weekend TV, so here’s a chance for you to weigh in on any of last night’s shows that I didn’t see ahead of time—including 30 Rock‘s season finale and the first Steve Carell-less episode of The Office.

Let us know what you thought, and I’ll see you next week.

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  • Bemused

    Weren’t you going to do FNL posts when it aired on NBC? what happened with that?

  • nycgeoff

    Re: FNL, I’ve always appreciated the show for its real characters, but it seems like this season the characters are even more real, if that’s possible.

    Two examples stand out: Vince not trusting his father, and making it really hard for him to earn back his place in the family. Compare that with the relatively easy treatment Matt’s mother had from Matt.

    Epic, as well, seems much more of an actual high-schooler-in-trouble than anyone we’ve seen before (there’s no real FNL character to compare her with: Tyra?)

    And I have high (pun intended) hopes for Buddy Jr. No way does he just become a good-kid-through-shoulder-pads story.

  • nycgeoff

    And the Fringe finale: Great ending, but I wanted the first 41 minutes to last 3 (it was pretty simple to figure out what they were going to do before the episode even started) and the final 3 minutes stretched out to 41.

  • sandwichtalk

    I’ll be interested to hear your take on NBC’s thursday night last week, which I thought was as strong a showing from most of the shows, especially Community, as we’ve seen in a while- with the exception, of course, of the Office, which started rough and got worse throughout.

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