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The Germans should have invented a word that’s like “schadenfreude,” but describing the feeling that comes when someone expresses something in a such a way that you feel vaguely uncomfortable agreeing with them. Schaden-noddin’, maybe?
Whatever the word, it would roughly describe what I felt …
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Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up:
So from the moment I learned that “Glitter” would be a Robin Sparkles episode of HIMYM, I had to figure that it was going to be—as the hilarious first and the not-as-hilarious second one were designed to be—a one-joke episode. And it was. But it turned out to be not that …
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The pit in NBC’s Thursday night is finally being filled.
NBC announced its midseason schedule today, and if you’re like me, what you really care about is that Parks and Recreation is finally coming back on Jan. 20—and in an actual good time slot, or as close to one as you can get on NBC. The comedy will now air at 9:30, after The …
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Spoilers for last night’s Boardwalk Empire coming up:
While Boardwalk Empire is a crime story, it’s not a story mainly about the men who pull the triggers but rather the men who hire them. And while it is in many ways a …
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I’ve already given my thoughts, at length, on the debut episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, which aired last night, so now it’s your turn. I’m especially curious what viewers thought of the balance of content in the show, which was a hybrid of Alaska nature travelogue, celebreality bio of Palin as a public figure, and Jon & Kate style …
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Spoilers for last night’s The Walking Dead coming up:
After a second episode that seemed to be set up partly to showcase what The Walking Dead can deliver in terms of zombie carnage on a basic-cable budget, the third episode …
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There are a lot of things to love about Community, but as I wrote back when the second season debuted, for me it boils down to the sense that everyone involved simply has such a fantastic time at their jobs. Individual episodes have their ups and downs, but there’s an amazing level of craft to the show that goes beyond simply writing …
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Spoilers for last night’s 30 Rock coming up:
Disclosure here: I am bound to be favorably disposed to an episode as devoted to my borough as “Brooklyn Without Limits,” and last night’s episode included a spoof of Brooklyn artisanal-hipster culture as specific as anything this side of Bored to …
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Last night, Rachel Maddow devoted her MSNBC program to an interview with Jon Stewart about the message of his Rally to Restore Sanity, and its critique of the news media, especially—this being a cable news show—cable news. (See the whole thing here.)
I don’t want to oversimplify the …
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Tina Brown is back in the magazine business! After some fits and starts in the deal, Brown’s (and Barry Diller’s) The Daily Beast website and the new ownership of Newsweek have worked out a deal by which the two entities will combine, with Brown as the editor in chief of both. TIME being the Coke to Newsweek’s Pepsi—or the …
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Very mild spoilers for tonight’s Community follow:
Do you know what a bottle episode is? You will by the time tonight’s Community episode, “Cooperative Calligraphy,” is done. The term describes an episode of a series done in a limited setting—say, the classic trapped-in-a-freezer scenario—to save money. (Example: Breaking Bad’s …
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And thus Truxton Spangler gets to walk away. AMC announced today that it will not renew espionage thriller Rubicon, thus breaking its undefeated streak of shows renewed after their first season (Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead). The statement, in its entirety:
‘Rubicon’ gave us an opportunity to tell a rich and compelling
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Wednesday night’s Late Show With David Letterman started predictably enough: A couple jokes about Conan, about George W. Bush’s new book, about the cruise ship stranded out at sea.
Then Russell Crowe came on to talk about his new (and pretty good) movie The Next Three Days. In the past, Crowe’s been a provocative headline maker, …
