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Spoilers for the season finale of Justified coming up after the jump:
Justified started this season as a show about crimes of the week, but from the beginning, and increasingly as the season went on and improved, it was also about crimes of the past. On a social level, it was about the culture of criminality that troubled this corner …
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SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for the season finale of Glee coming up.
The first season finale of Glee was called “Journey” for a reason. At regionals, New Directions retraced their steps back to their roots, performing “Don’t Stop Believin'” as they did in the show’s pilot, as part of a Journey medley. Likewise, the show Glee itself …
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Idris Elba, whom Tuned Inlanders may remember in particular as Stringer Bell from The Wire, is starring in a new crime thriller for the BBC, Luther, which will air on BBC America later in the year. But this time, he’s one of the good guys. Maybe. And depending how you define “good.”
At least according to the BBC description, John …
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Nike has launched a new ad—at three-plus minutes, a mega-ad—for the World Cup, and it’s a doozy. Directed by Alexander Rodriguez Alejandro González Iñárritu, the hyper, kinetic, hyperkinetic commercial, “Write the Future,” follows several international footballers through the …
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The summer broadcast season is less of a burn-off zone than it used to be; besides reality shows, networks are occasionally more willing to use it for scripted series (like The Good Guys) that they seem to believe have the potential to be authentic hits. But old habits die hard, and the networks still undercut their own efforts to prove …
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Spoilers for the season finale of Nurse Jackie after the jump:
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Last week, the Television Critics’ Association, of which I am a member (though I often don’t attend press tour), released its nominees for its 2010 awards, which will be given out this summer at press tour. I’ve already voted from among the nominees—I didn’t want to seem as though I were taking a poll before casting my own …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s Treme follow:
Mardi Gras, the event that Treme built toward—much as the New Orleans calendar builds toward it—came to the series last night. “All on a Mardi Gras Day” began with a kind of montage, showing various characters eating king cake and prepping for the holiday. And then the entire episode …
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I may not be entirely qualified to comment on last night’s MTV Movie Awards, seeing as how I am old—old enough never to even have fantasized making out with a vampire. Also, between a choppy cable connection and the constant (yet inconsistently applied) language beeps, the event was often more like watching a slideshow than a …
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Spoilers for Breaking Bad coming up:
One of the most fascinating dynamics on The Wire was the juxtaposition in season 3 of Stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale and their approaches to running the drug business. Avon was old-school …
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I’m not sure how much appetite there is for a Friday Night Lights Watch here at Tuned In—devout fans may have already watched it on DirecTV, and the NBC run of season 3 elicited relatively few comments on those occasions I covered it last year. But season 4, with Coach Taylor taking over the struggling East Dillon football program, …
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If this week marked the return of the broadcast-network summer reality season, it’s also the launch of the basic-cable summer drama season. One of the past summers’ highlights, USA’s Burn Notice, returned last night. I’m behind on it–the show usually has DVR-and-catch-up status for me–but I know it has fans here, so let us know what …
