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After last night’s season finale of Breaking Bad, AMC aired a preview of its next drama series, the conspiracy thriller Rubicon, starring James Badge Dale, which begins in August. (Actually, though I didn’t catch the airing since I saw Breaking Bad on a screener, I believe AMC aired the full pilot. Update: They did, and you can watch …
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The first Game of Thrones teaser is out. It’s short; it …
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Spoilers for the season finale of Breaking Bad coming up:
The story of Breaking Bad has been the story of Walter White crossing thresholds. It’s been a journey with him down a descending corridor leading further into his …
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Spoilers for last night’s episode of Treme coming up:
“Unlike plot-driven entertainments, there is no closure in real life. Not really.” —Creighton Bernette
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Spoilers for tonight’s Friday Night Lights coming up:
Last week gave us some devastatingly emotional scenes in Friday Night Lights‘ “The Son,” a high-water mark for the season to this point, if not for the whole series. The followup, “Stay,” gave us a set of stories that were about aftermath: the aftermath of Matt’s father’s death, …
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The second season of HBO’s True Blood ended on a cliffhanger, as vampire Bill asked mortal-or-mostly-mortal (I think) Sookie (a.k.a. “Suh-key”) for her hand in marriage, then disappeared after she asked for a minute alone to think. The first three episodes of True Blood’s season 3 …
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In the print issue of TIME on newsstands today, I have a piece on the amazing third season of Breaking Bad, which wraps up Sunday night. [Update: Oh, it’s customary to link to the story, isn’t it? Ahem.] I’ve been a broken record about this at the blog, but it’s really something that a show like this—which debuted as quite a good …
Why won’t these film franchises just go away already?
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Last night, in the what-I’m-told-was-exciting final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs (um, spoiler alert, I guess), the Chicago Blackhawks won in overtime to capture the title for the first time in half a century. But the exciting finish was not quite enough to take the night’s ratings …
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When the story broke about Washington journalist Helen Thomas getting into trouble for saying Israeli Jews should “go home” to countries like Germany and Poland, I thought about Mike Wallace. My first year at the University of Michigan, there was a controversy over his being asked to …
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The good thing I can say about Bravo’s new art-competition reality show, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, is that it surpassed my expectations. I expected it to be lousy, however, so take that for what it’s worth.
My big concern about the show is that the various genres of visual art—painting, photography, performance, &c.—were …
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Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But, premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so …
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It’s NBA finals time, which means that last night, of course, I was watching Glee. Because I am that confident in my masculinity. Far and away the biggest show on TV last night, though, was the hoopsketball match, so I leave it to the sports fans here to assess: how has the primetime coverage on ABC stacked up?
Tonight, game 6 of the …
