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For a TV show with such a vast, sprawling plot, expansive visuals and everything-but-the-Dharma-sink philosophy, Lost is also distinguished as a show with not much in the way of main-title theme music. (It has more of a theme note, or sound, or something.) But it’s certainly not a …
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SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad follow.
Now we wait. As last week’s episode, “One Minute,” blew up the storyline of the vengeful cousins and threw Walter’s family into crisis, it left us, with him, to go …
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SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for last night’s Treme coming up, along with an off-the-menu plate of crawfish.
Before Treme debuted, David Simon and Eric Overmyer took pains to say that the show was not going to be The Wire: New Orleans. One way in which it would differ, they said, was its scope. Where The Wire was deliberately a sweeping …
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Back when Lorne Michaels decided to get Betty White to co-host Saturday Night Live in response to a Facebook campaign, SNL cast it as a Mother’s Day / women-of-SNL night, with returning cast members including Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon, among others. The idea seemed to …
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The wait is over for those of you without one of those little DirecTV pizzas stuck to your house: the fourth season of Friday Night Lights returns to NBC tonight, and it’s worth the wait. I reviewed the season (based on the first few episodes) back in the fall, and I found that—while you might be rightly suspicious that the show …
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NBC continues its long, Marshall-Plan-like rebuilding process today with the announcement of three new series pickups for next season. Two of them are series I’ve heard entertainment chief Angela Bromstad talk up in the past: Love Bites, a kind of 21st-century Love, American Style from Sex and the City writer Cindy Chupack, and …
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Note: Be sure to take a look at this Tuned In Poll and tell me whether you want to keep this gallery-review format.
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In this week’s print issue of TIME, my column looks at Conan O’Brien‘s re-emergence on 60 Minutes (and on tour) and how his move to cable is another test of what it means to be a “star” in the age of niche media. Leaving aside the money (which thanks to a production deal, could earn O’Brien more on cable than on a big network) is it …
Hollywood requires every comic book movie franchise to pump out multiple sequels. Many of them…are just not very good.
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A little housekeeping question about my morning-after reviews of Thursday night’s comedies. Now that NBC is in the position of having four good (or at least worth reviewing) sitcoms on Thursday night, I recently ditched the practice of doing longer separate reviews of one or two, and instead have been doing a picture gallery of all four, …
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Since Community debuted, viewers have gone two ways on its pop-culture referentiality—actually, this viewer right here has felt both ways, often within the same episode. It can be hilarious; and it can be too much. I really like the show and think it’s only gotten better, but I love its characters as well as its meta-references, and …
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It can seem forced when TV shows do episodes in which several groups of characters experience some version of the same conflict. For an extended-relations show like Modern Family, it works more naturally, because each member is, to an extent, a variation on the same person. This worked in “Airport 2010,” in which the members of the …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination coming up after the jump:
