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The Morning After: Smash Ends Its Season, With a Bombshell and a Whimper

Quick spoilers for the season finale of Smash below:

…and so Smash concludes its first season as it began, wildly applauding for itself.

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The Morning After: Is Veep Better Off Now Than It Was Two Episodes Ago?

HBO

At this point, you’ve seen as many episode of Veep as I had before I reviewed it. Does it have your vote?

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The Morning After: American Idol Vs. The Voice

Michael Becker / FOX

Why has NBC’s singing show fallen back in the ratings? Idol, as familiar and even staid as it might be now, is designed to get more compelling as the competition goes along—whereas The Voice, if anything, is designed to get less so.

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The Morning After: You Can’t Go Home Again

David Giesbrecht/CBS

Quick thoughts on the season finale of The Good Wife below: One concern I’d had as season 3 of The Good Wife went on was that the show might be attempting to hit the reset button, returning to the circumstances of the series’ beginnings, from having Cary return to the firm to giving Peter another [...]

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The Morning After: In Dreamatoriums Begin Responsibilities

Neil Jacobs/NBC

I loved last night’s Community, but I’m really posting here not to review it but to poll Tuned Inland as to what you thought of it. Community’s very-high-concept episodes (e.g., the various pop-culture parodies) tend to polarize viewers, as do the episodes that are lower on jokes and higher on character study (e.g., “Mixology Certification”). [...]

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The Morning After: Life’s a B—-

ABC

Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 is bad. I don’t mean that as a statement of quality, but as a statement of character, or at least of attitude. And as a compliment. The new ABC sitcom, about June  (Dreama Walker), a naif new to Manhattan who ends up with a sociopathic roommate (Krysten Ritter), [...]

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The Morning After: Back to Square One?

CBS

I’m back from vacation, which you may have surmised from the fact that, well, I’m posting things on this blog. As usual, that means a lot of catching up, so I’ll turn over this Morning After post to invite your thoughts on an increasingly crowded Sunday night of programming. (Including, besides Mad Men, Game of [...]

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The Morning After: Handyman Special

Vivian Zink/NBC

Bent, which debuted last night on NBC, is the network’s latest effort at the growing hangout-comedy genre.

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The Morning After: Without a Paddle

ABC

ABC was good enough to send me all eight episodes of The River before I reviewed it. So while I was able to give a sense of how insane the show became–enjoyably, to me, but your nautical mileage may have varied–spoiler sensitivity meant I was not able to detail in how many ways it was [...]

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The Morning After: My Secret Burger Addiction

FOX

Bob’s Burgers, which just returned for its second season on Fox earlier this month, may be on the verge of becoming my favorite secret-favorite TV show.

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The Morning After: Ashley Judd’s European Vacation

ABC

I felt that I couldn’t fairly review Missing, ABC’s new Ashley Judd spy-mom-searches-for-her-son drama, because I didn’t watch all the episodes sent out for review. Fairness also requires, though, that I say I didn’t watch them because I had so little interest after watching the first episode, which aired last night.

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The Morning After: I Fought the Law

Prashant Gupta / FX

Justified’s season three is still coming together, but “Watching the Detectives” was a hugely entertaining and revealing hour.

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The Morning After: A Wedding. And a Funeral?

Chris Haston/NBC

I owe Parenthood an apology, not that it does anyone any good at this point.

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The Morning After: Happy Leap Day! Edition

NBC

30 Rock and Parks and Recreation offer two very different takes on a holiday we didn’t know we needed until now.

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The Morning After: I’ll Be There for You

ABC/PETER "HOPPER" STONE

An unexpected thought occurred to me after watching last night’s Modern Family: Is it the 2012 equivalent to Friends?

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The Morning After: Second Act

Patrick Harbron/NBC

I was not as smitten with Smash as many of my fellow TV critics, but “Callbacks” did make a couple of choices that I liked very well.

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The Morning After: 30 Rock at 60 Minutes

Ali Goldstein/NBC

“Hey Baby, What’s Wrong?” had that padding-it-out feeling, as if the writers were students trying to meet a ten-page term paper requirement by fiddling with the margins and the font size.

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The Morning After: How the Mighty Have Fallen

Michael Becker / FOX

I mentioned earlier on this blog that I’ve decided to save hours and sanity by skipping the American Idol auditions this season. I make an exception, at least partially, for the Hollywood round, which is one of my favorite parts of Idol even if Idol’s TV audience doesn’t seem to share that opinion. But last [...]

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The Morning After: Hey, Dollface!

ABC/FRANCISCO ROMAN

One fun thing about seeing episodes of shows in advance is going on Twitter and watching people’s reactions blow up at a certain scene you know will freak them out. In the case of the two-hour premiere of The River, that would be: the dolls. (Spoiler alert: I just mentioned the dolls.) The feed of [...]

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The Morning After: NBC, Finally Something to Sing About?

Lewis Jacobs/NBC

After a post-Super Bowl promo, NBC got a huge number of new fans to tune in for the second season of The Voice. To my surprise, I’m one of them.