+TV Recap Dancing with the Stars: Season 13, Episode 5 | 115 days ago

Dancing with the Stars Recap, Week Three: The Episode Where Everyone Cries

By Melissa Locker
ABC via Getty Images

Welcome back to TIME’s Dancing with the Stars recap. Today’s theme: There Will Be Tears.

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Tuned In+News Media | 115 days ago

Are You Ready for Some Hitler? ESPN Benches Hank Williams Jr. After Obama Comparison

By James Poniewozik

As country singer and Monday Night Football jinglemaster Hank Williams Jr. learned yesterday, Godwin’s Law is real, and there are penalties for violating it. Appearing on Fox News’ Fox and Friends to talk politics, the conservative Williams, in a rambling interview, criticized Speaker of the House John Boehner for playing golf with President Obama, saying [...]

+TV Recap House: Season 8, Episode 1 | 115 days ago

House Watch: The Return of TV's Most Important Medical Drama

By John Cloud
Fox

With its eighth-season premiere on Monday night, House M.D. graduated into an elite status of TV dramas that survive beyond seven years. Among the others are Law & Order, E.R. and C.S.I. — all of them procedurals.

+Music | 116 days ago

Music Monday: The Quiet Melodies of Feist’s ‘Metals’

By Claire Suddath
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Four years ago, Leslie Feist—who performs under her last name—released The Reminder. Its hit single “1234″ (remember the whimsical music video that accompanied it?) became so pervasive that the snippet used in Apple’s iPod Nano commercial might still be stuck in your head.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 116 days ago

The Morning After: Return Flight?

By James Poniewozik

Busy, busy, busy! As I mentioned in my Homeland post the other day, Sunday is quite the crowded viewing/blogging night for me right now, what with Breaking Bad wrapping up, Boardwalk Empire back in the regular rotation, and The Good Wife, Homeland and The Amazing Race, among other shows, competing for DVR space and time. [...]

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Tuned In+TV Recap Boardwalk Empire: Season 2, Episode 2 | 116 days ago

Boardwalk Empire Watch: Jail Baiting

By James Poniewozik
HBO

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, put down that copy of Tom Sawyer—or David Copperfield, or whatever—and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire. Two men begin this episode of Boardwalk Empire, “Ourselves Alone,” in jail. One is quickly set free on bail and eventually returns to his luxurious home for a sumptuous dinner. The other [...]

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Tuned In+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 4, Episode 12 | 116 days ago

Breaking Bad Watch: Up On a Roof

By James Poniewozik
AMC

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, gather up the family and some of your closest armed guards and watch last night’s Breaking Bad. When I take notes on any show I’m reviewing, I like to include little side comments–often in capital letters to distinguish them–as a kind of running commentary of my reaction to [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 117 days ago

Arrested Development to Definitely Possibly Happen Again

By James Poniewozik

As surely as there is always money in the banana stand, there is always eternal optimism—encouraged by remarks by Arrested Development principals every half year or so—that the cast members of the show will reunite again and make the much-rumored Arrested Development movie. Sunday at the New Yorker Festival in New York City, accompanied by [...]

+Box Office Report | 117 days ago

Box Office: Surprise! Dolphins and Jesus Beat Cancer and Dead Kids

By Richard Corliss
Everett

Parents drove their kids to see family films this weekend, turning the other new movies into roadkill. Audiences had no sixth sense for the Shyamalanish Dream House and 50/50 couldn’t bring moviegoers to its bedside.