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The second season of HBO’s True Blood ended on a cliffhanger, as vampire Bill asked mortal-or-mostly-mortal (I think) Sookie (a.k.a. “Suh-key”) for her hand in marriage, then disappeared after she asked for a minute alone to think. The first three episodes of True Blood’s season 3 …
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In the print issue of TIME on newsstands today, I have a piece on the amazing third season of Breaking Bad, which wraps up Sunday night. [Update: Oh, it’s customary to link to the story, isn’t it? Ahem.] I’ve been a broken record about this at the blog, but it’s really something that a show like this—which debuted as quite a good …
Why won’t these film franchises just go away already?
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Last night, in the what-I’m-told-was-exciting final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs (um, spoiler alert, I guess), the Chicago Blackhawks won in overtime to capture the title for the first time in half a century. But the exciting finish was not quite enough to take the night’s ratings …
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When the story broke about Washington journalist Helen Thomas getting into trouble for saying Israeli Jews should “go home” to countries like Germany and Poland, I thought about Mike Wallace. My first year at the University of Michigan, there was a controversy over his being asked to …
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The good thing I can say about Bravo’s new art-competition reality show, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, is that it surpassed my expectations. I expected it to be lousy, however, so take that for what it’s worth.
My big concern about the show is that the various genres of visual art—painting, photography, performance, &c.—were …
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Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But, premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so …
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It’s NBA finals time, which means that last night, of course, I was watching Glee. Because I am that confident in my masculinity. Far and away the biggest show on TV last night, though, was the hoopsketball match, so I leave it to the sports fans here to assess: how has the primetime coverage on ABC stacked up?
Tonight, game 6 of the …
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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 …
There’s something satisfying in imagining the end of the world. These ten books did it best.
