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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:
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Between a late night last night, catchup posts this morning, and a visit to the Boardwalk Empire set this afternoon (I know: poor me!), I’m not going to have time to catch up on last night’s Glee, so you can do it for me. After the first three episodes of the spring season, I have a few issues, but the big ones can be summed up as: …
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The remaining quintet of Idol contestants, under the mentoring of Harry Connick Jr., performed the songs of Frank Sinatra last night. After the jump, see who got under my skin:
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, grab your things—here, take this backpack—and watch last night’s Lost.
While Lost was airing on the East Coast last night, I was at the Time 100 gala at the Time Warner Center, seated between Rachael Ray and Lost producer Carlton Cuse. (Through dinner, Cuse was getting text updates from …
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Gabriel Sherman at New York Magazine ‘s Daily Intel blogis reporting that CBS News and CNN are in “deep talks” about a possible partnership that would allow them to share talent, cut costs and, they hope, grow their respective audiences. I don’t want to put too much stock in it yet; such a deal has been floated, and unsuccessfully …
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TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year is The Protester. Here is a look at the artists who have best turned anger into song.
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Willard Week continued last night, with Fred Willard following up his Modern Family guest spot with an appearance on Chuck, pairing with Swoosie Kurtz as a married spy couple whose squabbling gave newly attached Chuck and Sarah pause. Also potentially giving them pause is another married spy couple, the protagonists of Undercovers, …
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When you have a comedy involving five friends, two of whom are married, and the other three of whom have already hooked up and broken up, there’s not much you can do to introduce relationship tension within the group. In “Twin Beds,” HIMYM tried to do that, not by bringing Robin back together either with Ted or Barney but instead by …
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Warning: spoilers for last night’s Treme follow.
This was the first episode of Treme that I didn’t see in advance, and once I caught up with it, other deadlines got in the way. In the interest of putting it out there for your discussion, I’ll skip the big overview—the episode, it was pretty plain, focused on themes of homecoming and …
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I suppose the thing that really would have qualified as news would have been if NBC didn’t pick up a highly publicized, presumably less-than-cheap pilot from J.J. Abrams, but nonetheless: the network has given the go-ahead to Undercovers, the married-spies romance-drama.
Good thing that NBC doesn’t already have a romance-drama about a …
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That, anyway, is the word from The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove, who reports that David Axelrod told him the Prez received jokes for his White House Correspondents’ Dinner standup from writers for The Daily Show. (For a review of Obama’s, and Jay Leno’s, performances, see this post from …
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Warning: Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad:
The title of last night’s episode of Breaking Bad, “One Minute,” applies to both the horrifying first sequence of the episode and the terrifying final sequence of the episode. …
