James Poniewozik

James Poniewozik writes TIME magazine's Tuned In column, about pop culture and society. Tuned In, the blog version, is about the stuff we used to call "TV," whether it's in your living room, on your computer or - once the networks figure out the technology and line up the advertisers - in your dreams themselves.

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BSG: Also Sprach Kara Thrace-stra

WARNING: If you haven’t watched last night’s Battlestar Galactica and don’t want it spoiled, go the frak away.

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It’s a strange experience watching sci-fi shows on advance screener DVDs. Because so many scenes contain effects that are added in postproduction at the last minute, the episodes are often

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Who Says TV Has to Be Good?

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Ulrich on Jericho

Any given season, there are at least a couple series that I watch, loyally and attentively, even though they are not, in any aesthetically defensible sense of the word, good. This year, that award has to go to Jericho, CBS’s postapocalyptic drama set in Kansas after a multiple nuke attack cripples the U.S. The

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Lostwatch: Big Mister Sunshine

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched Lost yet, avert your eyes before you get struck by a meteor. Or an asteroid. I don’t know the difference.


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Last night, Lost got back to the core of what the show is all about. Not the characters, or the mystery, or the numbers, or the relationships, or any of that. I’m talking about …

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Heroes Gets Super


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Finally caught up with this week’s Heroes, which was easily the best of the year. Of course, I might just be saying that because it was essentially an episode of Lost (one present-day story, built around a flashback).

But we don’t want to go down that road again, do we? Taken on its own terms, the episode was …

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JPTV Jr.: It's Not Kids' TV. It's Kids' HBO.