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My list of the top 10 TV episodes of 2009 is also up here at time.com. See my post about the best 10 shows of the year for my general thoughts about listmaking. After the jump, some particular comments about the episode list, the quick-and-dirty version of the list, and my honorable mentions:
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TIME’s annual collection of 10-Best Lists are up, including my list of the top 10 TV shows of 2009. (Also up is my list of the top 10 TV episodes, which I’ll cover in a separate post.) After the jump, the quick-and-dirty version of the list, some thoughts and explanations, and my honorable mentions:
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I don’t know how the legal investigation into the Letterman extortion/affair case will go. Maybe other shoes will drop. The future is uncertain! But with David Letterman’s ratings having maintained a steady level, and with the host delivering a pretty solid Tiger Woods …
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I won’t re-review last night’s Men of a Certain Age and am not sure if I’m adding it to the regular Watch rotation yet, but thought I’d put up a post for your comments and thoughts. In retrospect, I’m not sure whether I’m more impressed at Ray Romano’s dramatic acting or André Braugher’s comedic acting; actors get more credit for the …
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Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
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“After years of celebrating wealth, celebrity and the vapid excesses of youth, MTV is trying to gloss its escapist entertainment with a veneer of positive social messages.”
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If you watch a lot of TV news, you become well aware of the consumer options for free credit reports, health-care products for the elderly and—if you watch Fox News in particular—gold. A fascinating story up at Politico examines the symbiosis between the conservative talkers peddling disaster and the various companies peddling the …
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I took some ribbing from some female associates when I reviewed The Good Wife earlier this season and said the show turned out to be much, much better than I thought it would be. My low expectations were as much about the fact that it was a courtroom procedural as about its chick-centricity, but fair enough.
In the interest of equal …
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(Warning: vaguely worded spoilers for The Amazing Race follow.)
If I have been remiss in recapping The Amazing Race this season, it is because The Amazing Race has been remiss in making me want to. The show still has a great premise and is capable of drawing me in with a team like Mike and Mel White last year. But I don’t think it …
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Still a while yet before I complete my duty-watching of the “fall finale” of FlashForward. But I thought I should get a Morning After post up for the interested, not least because I’ve technically already run out of morning. Did the episode make you more eager to see FF when it returns? And what do you think of this whole mini-trend of …
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The holidays really do bring people together! Mediaite and conservative media watchdog Newsbusters find themselves united today in one belief: CBS shouldn’t have messed around with Frosty. The two sites knocked the network for some mashup promos that intercut the perennial kids’ …
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I’ll be on The Takeaway Friday morning a smidge after 7:30 a.m. E.T. (More public radio! For I am a man of the people!) Subject: More NBC-Comcast. (Question: do regular actual humans find this merger nearly as interesting as media people do?)
Find a local station or listen online (scroll down for a link). Expect lots of 30 Rock references.
