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JPTV: What I'm Mourning Tonight

The Morte de Television continues tonight, as NBC airs the final two pre-strike episodes of Chuck. I would say that I’m watching them, but I’ll probably TiVo them instead, and ration them out a few minutes at a time, like a nuclear-war survivor parceling out his remaining stash of tinned beans. Rolling it over my tongue, eyes closed, …

Raiders of the Looted Artifacts

They got a rude awakening Thursday morning at four museums in southern California — federal agents on their doorsteps with search warrants. The agents who swarmed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and the Mingei International Museum in San Diego were looking for …

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Terminator: The Extremely Long Title Chronicles

I finally caught up with the third episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and I may be forced to revise my unimpressed initial review of the show. I’m still completely underwhelmed with Thomas Dekker as John and find the writing–especially Sarah’s voiceovers–too self-serious for its own good. But I’m getting drawn in to …

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The Moment of Trite

Oh, Moment of Truth, how could you disappoint me so? From the get-go, Fox’s lie-detector game show sounded like the ultimate concept in trash TV: essentially, an amped-up, primetime version of The Jerry Springer Show or Dr. Phil disguised as a $500,000 competition. By asking contestants uncomfortable questions in front of their loved …

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The Morning After: In or Out?

Rami with Tim Gunn, who has “This worries me” written all over his face. / Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke

SPOILER ALERT: There are no spoilers in this post.

You may be wondering why you don’t get many Project Runway writeups here at Tuned in. If you’re not, well, I just went and wondered for you anyway. I watch the show religiously, but I …