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Tuned In+Television | 52 days ago

Terra Nova Watch: Party Like It’s 2149

By James Poniewozik

The finale was a roundup of all the reasons this serial could have been great but fell short. But a dinosaur ate some dudes. So there's that.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 266 days ago

Office Watch: You're Not the Boss of Me

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last night’s season finale of The Office below: There are three ways to look at “Search Committee”: (1) as an episode in itself, (2) as a way of judging the overall success of season seven of The Office and (3) as a table-setter for the extended life of Dunder-Mifflin without Michael Scott. I [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1001 days ago

The Morning After: How's It Hangin', Cliff?

By James Poniewozik

While extolling the virtues of online give-and-take with readers, I neglected to mention the most important benefit of it: getting someone else to do your work for you! In this case, hashing over the cliffhanger-y season finale of Grey’s Anatomy. (No spoilers here, but assume there will be in the comments and proceed accordingly.) Assuming [...]

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Tuned In+Movies | 1009 days ago

Elsewhere on Time.com: J.J. Abrams on Trek, Zach Braff on Scrubs

By James Poniewozik

  Because there’s a lot of pop culture out there and I’m only one man—one lazy, lazy man—time.com has you covered:    * As the (visceral, fun and thrilling) Star Trek prequel/reimagining opens, J.J. Abrams offers up a video 10 Questions interview.  * Time.com critic Mary Pols reviews the new flick: “a brisk, joyous romp.” (Nerd [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1044 days ago

The Morning After: Wrapping Up

By James Poniewozik

  Last night gave us the series finale of ABC’s remake of Life on Mars, which impressed me when it debuted but which—especially after Lost began and my Lostwatch duties resumed—I could never get myself to follow closely. Now it’s gone. Yes, I am part of the problem and not part of the solution. Also [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1345 days ago

The Morning After: Chef d'Oeuvre

By James Poniewozik

Top Chef’s final four. / Bravo Photo: Virginia Sherwood It was a late election night for me Tuesday, so while you were watching the Top Chef [Update: episode before the] finale, this delicate flower was watching the inside of his eyelids. Which means I will spend the day desperately (and probably unsuccessfully) trying to avoid [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1358 days ago

The Morning After: Wrapping Up

By James Poniewozik

L-Lo suits up for prime time. / KAREN NEAL/ABC It’s May, and that means time to let a bunch of season finales accumulate unwatched on my TiVo. To the pile last night we added the two-hour finale of Grey’s Anatomy and the Lohan-ized episode of Ugly Betty. I once enjoyed Ugly Betty a lot, but [...]

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Tuned In+1360 days ago

Reaping Rewards

By James Poniewozik

SPOILER ALERT: Brief spoilers about the Reaper season finale follow. With so many shows disrupted and marred by the aftereffects of the writers’ strike, it’s good to see one series that actually considerably improved at the end of this season. I had pretty much given up on Reaper by the time the strike hit, but [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1361 days ago

HIMYM Watch: Crash

By James Poniewozik

Kids: always wear your seat belt! / Eric McCandless/CBS SPOILER ALERT: Before you break the date-time continuum by reading this post, watch last night’s How I Met Your Mother.

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1436 days ago

Project Runway Finale: The Quasi-Live Blog

By James Poniewozik

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t yet watched the Project Runway finale yet, sever your Internet hose immediately–there’s spoilage everywhere out there. Rather than attempt some big essay-review that pretends I have any fashion expertise with which to assess the Runway finale, I decided just to pound it out, liveblog-style. Except that it’s no longer live. [...]