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Tuned In+Television | 83 days ago

A Second Look At: Terra Nova

By James Poniewozik

"Vs." showed that Terra Nova has the ingredients to be a thought-provoking adult show. But it also suggested why the series may never get to that point, and may not really want to.

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Tuned In+Tuned In | 139 days ago

A Second Look At: 2 Broke Girls

By James Poniewozik

When I previewed the pilot of 2 Broke Girls, I noted that it was essentially two sitcoms that seemed to be fighting for space. One was an odd-couple insult comedy, surprisingly crude for network primetime and crowded with ethnic stereotypes, not-especially-funny zingers and wacky situations (a horse in the backyard!). The other was an appealing–if [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 255 days ago

Checking in on Treme: Present at the Re-Creation

By James Poniewozik

General second-season spoilers for Treme below: I haven’t been blogging about Treme much this second season, partly because I’m cutting back on weekly reviews at Tuned In, but partly because the show offers both too much and too little to talk about. On the one hand, the show still takes its time, and—with exceptions like [...]

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Tuned In+320 days ago

A Second Look At: Bob's Burgers

By James Poniewozik

When it first debuted, I thought that Bob’s Burgers was worth keeping an eye on, despite a slow start, because of some appealing writing and the general past level of creator Loren Bouchard’s work. I’m ready to upgrade it now: this show is going on my Season Pass list, and if you haven’t checked it [...]

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Tuned In+460 days ago

A Second Look At: Detroit 1-8-7

By James Poniewozik

The night Detroit 1-8-7 premiered on ABC, I had a Twittter window open on my laptop, specifically following tweets about the show, which seemed to be running heavily from Michigan natives. There had been a lot of advance concern about how the cop series would portray Detroit, whether it would exploit the city’s rough image [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 573 days ago

A Second Look At: Louie

By James Poniewozik

Louis C.K.’s new FX comedy, Louie, debuted while I was on vacation at the end of the June, so I wrote about it in a pre-holiday blog post the week before. If it got lost in the shuffle, let me remedy that by saying: Louie continues to be one of the best new series of [...]

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Tuned In+908 days ago

A Second Look At: True Blood

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last Sunday’s True Blood coming up after the jump:

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A Second Look At: Better Off Ted

By James Poniewozik

  If you don’t already know, ABC is airing the remaining new episodes of Better Off Ted on Tuesdays this summer. And what better time to remind you of that than the morning after it aired?  When Ted premiered earlier this season, I liked it but was left a little cold. I was a huge [...]

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Tuned In+1329 days ago

A Second Look At: Swingtown

By James Poniewozik

Swingtown’s plot gets, er, twistier. / Eric McCandless/CBS When CBS’s Swingtown started a few weeks ago, it was one of a handful of summer debuts I was actually looking forward to. Three weeks into its run, I think it’s a very good show. It’s also a bad show. And I’m not sure which side of [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1342 days ago

A Second First Look At: In Plain Sight

By James Poniewozik

McCormack as witness-protector Shannon. / USA Network Photo: Lewis Jacobs USA network never sent me an advance screener of In Plain Sight, its new summer drama about U.S. marshal Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack), who’s assigned to guard people in the witness-protection program. So like a Henry Hill hiding in the suburbs at the end of [...]

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Tuned In+1460 days ago

A Second Look At: Breaking Bad

By James Poniewozik

Walt and Jesse clean up in the meth business. / AMC: Lewis Jacobs SPOILER ALERT: This post contains plot details about upcoming episodes of the series. When I reviewed Breaking Bad on the basis of the first three episodes, I had one main reservation: that the dark and comic elements of the show were having [...]