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Brief spoilers for FlashForward’s SeasonSeries finale coming up.
It is cheap and too easy, I realize, to cite FlashForward as a comparison point to Lost’s finale. If you believe Lost failed, then another show’s greater failings do not make it any better. But in the end, it’s still instructive. Having a plan from the beginning does not …
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Because of a mad rush of stuff at the end of last week and the beginning of this one, I didn’t manage end-of-season writeups on any of NBC’s Thursday comedies except The Office. Tuned Inlanders have asked about them since then, and thought I might as well post something an even week later. Briefly, then, and starting with Community …
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It was a hard night for any show that did not involve young people paired up with aging singers. But American Idol’s ratings, while still enviable, have been on the decline, so somebody had to have been watching something else. Perhaps it was you! Any Criminal Minds partisans in Tuned Inland? (Ah, Paget Brewster—how sad you still …
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In the Lost podcast I posted Tuesday, Maureen Ryan, Ryan McGee and I hashed over how our thoughts on the finale had evolved over a couple days. Before the finale aired, I had considered following up a few days after the finale with a second review.
I’m not going to do that, yet anyway. In part, I’m just burned out on Lost analysis for …
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Spoilers for the finale of 2010’s American Idol, after the jump:
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Art Linkletter died today at age 97. Over his decades as an entertainer, he had many roles—radio host, TV host, celebrity endorser, comic, anti-drug crusader—but his best-known work came in TV and radio shows based on a simple idea: that ordinary people are tremendously …
TIME takes a look at some of the absolutely terrible films that have been cynically pitched at female audiences.
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Spoilers for the season finale of The Good Wife:
The Good Wife‘s first season ended–well, almost ended–with Alicia and Peter Florrick standing in a backstage corridor, very much like the one where she hauled off and slapped him across the face for betraying her in the show’s pilot. The pilot was a very good one, but the contrast …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up:
After a string of improved episodes, especially last week’s high point, “Dream On,” I was nervous about “Theatricality,” because it was another episode devoted to showcasing a particular artist. I know some fans vehemently disagree with me, but “The Power of Madonna” was an example of how Glee …
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There is a limit to the number of overstuffed reality-competition extravaganzas I’m willing to cover, even to support my family, so if you’re looking for commentary on last night’s Dancing with the Stars finale here, you’ll have to provide it yourself. I’m playing catch-up on season-finale night, so I hope to have quick writeups on …
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It was the last performance night of the season, and Simon Cowell’s last judging night ever. Will it be the rocker or the folkie? The paint-store worker or the coffee-house singer? The husky-voiced guy or the husky-voiced gal? Lee DeWyze and Crystal Bowersox squared off to be the ninth American Idol: click the pix to see how they did.
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…here’s an hour and change more, courtesy of the good offices of Ryan McGee of Zap2It and Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune, plus yours truly. We walked about how our views of the finale have evolved (or not) over 36 hours, the polarized online debate over the ending, our thoughts on the ending itself and the long but …
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Spoilers for the series finale of 24 coming up:
24 came onto the air in 2001 as a form-breaking serial that looked strikingly different from anything else on TV. As all successful insurgents do over time, though, it became another institution, with its own familiar forms, tropes and patterns. And last night, 24 said goodbye—to TV …
