Before you read this post, steal your Mom’s Hummer and race home to watch last night’s episode of Big Love.
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The Morning After: Royal Debut
Last night was the two-hour debut of NBC’s Kings. For my review of the series–sometimes powerful and poetic, sometimes plodding and preposterous–see here; but since I suspect the show drew a lot of Tuned Inlander curiosity, I’m curious to hear what you thought. Long may it reign, or off with its head?
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BSG Watch: Lead Them to Their End
Spoilers for Friday’s episode of Battlestar Galactica coming up after the break:
Homer Page: Lost and Found
I’ve taken an interest lately in The Photographs of Homer Page, the catalogue of a show that just opened at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. It amounts to a rediscovery, almost a disinterment, of a photographer who was prominent enough in the late 1940s to get featured treatment a few times by the Museum of Modern Art. But …
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Office and 30 Rock Watch: Who's the Boss?
Two-for-one spoilers for The Office and 30 Rock coming up after the jump:
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The Morning After: Clooney Tunes
I have to be honest about this: I simply can’t fake interest in the Important Television Milestone that is the passing of ER. I was simply never much of a fan. It debuted in 1994, before I was a TV critic, and while I watched it early on to see what all the fuss was about, in the mid-’90s I was much more interested in The X-Files, My …
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Stewart/Cramer: Who's This Song About?
So did Stewart get Cramer? Did he get him good? Did he stick it to him? As I posted yesterday, there’s a big temptation to frame last night’s head-to-head between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer as a battle between two guys. But as Stewart told Cramer, to his credit, “This song isn’t about you.” (Indeed, Cramer’s thin-skinned personal …
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Dead Tree Alert: Kings Review
A proclamation! We have reviewed Kings! Heralds—sound the royal fanfare!
Is it better for a TV show to be consistent or surprising? Is it worse for it to be ridiculous or boring? NBC’s unorthodox new drama Kings (Sunday, 8 p.m. E.T.) comes down solidly on the latter side of those questions. Some viewers will say it’s
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Ricky Gervais and Elmo: Who's Funnier? Who's Softer?
Someone has probably already sent you this link, but it’s late in the day and it’s still funny:
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Corporate Press Release Theater: NBC's Summer O' Scripts
NBC, which upended broadcast network tradition by clearing the 10 p.m. E.T. hour of scripted series and giving it to Jay Leno, has now upended (recent) broadcast network tradition by scheduling three new scripted series in the summer: The Philanthropist, The Listener and Merlin (yes, about that Merlin). (As planned, it will also launch …
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Dead Tree Alert: CNBC Sticks Up for the Big Guy
My CNBC column is posted at time.com. (The Huffington Post knew it was up before I did.) I only wish it had come out a week earlier, but those are the perils of a biweekly column, and Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer have done me the courtesy of keeping the network in the headlines for me.
I’ve been reiterating several of the points in my …
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Is South Park the Most Moral Show On TV?
OK, that may be a bit of an odd question to ask after a season-premiere episode that included a filthy-mouthed Mickey Mouse, references to girls “gineys tickling,” and the line “You like taking the Jonas Brothers’ hot foam in your faces, girls?” But besides being funnier than anything (unless there was a standout I’m forgetting) from the …
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Feudalism
In the grand spirit of further milking a public controversy to draw traffic to my blog, I was going to make the argument today that all the attention to the throwdown between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer was misplaced.
I would have said that it’s a classic example of how the media are more comfortable focusing on personalities than on …