Girls’ second-to-last episode of the season does some uncomfortable emotional digging, in a half-hour that may have had you covering your eyes, or your ears.
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Enlightened Watch: This Beautiful, Upsetting World
Enlightened gives Amy something like a happy ending. But let’s hope it’s not the end.
Super Bowl Snacks: Warm Bodies Devours Stallone’s Head
Teen zombies and the neuro-mancers of ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ leave the tough-guys drama for dead
Zero Dark Thirty Waterboards the Competition
The get-bin-Laden docudrama tops a ‘Haunted House’ spoof and a star-laden ‘Gangster Squad’
What We Should Be Thinking About Pop-Culture Violence, and What We Will Probably Do Instead
It should be possible to criticize excessive, numbing, bludgeoning violence in pop culture without reaching for a dubious argument that it leads to massacres.
The Top 10 TV Episodes of 2012: The Best and the Rest
Because no human can watch everything, this list is necessarily more incomplete, and therefore more fun, than my annual Best Shows list.
TV Tonight: Crossfire Hurricane
The HBO documentary is not a revelation, but it’s an intimate story of the band, with performance sequences that show how five guys came together and made an entity of pure fire and sex.
Elmo, Petraeus, Sex, and What Is Our Damn Business
Whether it involves kids’ entertainment or entirely adult matters, it can be hard to distinguish between genuine outrages and stories that just titillate us or creep us out.
Don’t Watch the News Today
It is quite possible that daytime election coverage is the most excited and useless news that TV outlets bring us in a year, and that’s saying something
‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Is Rex and ‘Flight’ Has Great Liftoff on a Busy Post-Storm Weekend
In the wake of Sandy, a Disney movie about a video-game lug keeps families happy, while the Denzel Washington drama lures adults
Moneypoll! The Pundits Vs. The Election-Data Nerds
The other big contest next Tuesday is between the pundits trying to analyze the election with their guts and a new breed of statistics gurus trying to forecast it with data.
It’s Not TV. It’s Not HBO. It’s Streaming. But Is It Worth It?
Netflix’s streaming service is growing, but not fast enough to please Wall Street. Are original series what it’s going to take to get you to sign up?
Just How Scary Is Sinister?
Scary, but you’ll still sleep… Ethan Hawke plays a true crime writer who gets a little too close to his latest project—the investigation of a gruesome multiple murder
