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Lou Dobbs, the former CNN host who turned up this week as a client on The Good Wife, is in a real-life legal controversy. After he made a name for years with his crusade against illegal immigration, a year-long investigation by The Nation charges that Dobbs himself employed undocumented workers to maintain his estate and …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s Modern Family coming up:
One of the toughest things about keeping house is keeping the house. As in keeping it together, making sure it does not physically disintegrate. Home ownership puts a strain on relationships because (1) it is a strain and (2) every little failing and glitch can become a …
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Earlier this week, Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh Air interviewed Jon Stewart on stage at New York’s 92nd Street Y to discuss his upcoming Rally to Restore Sanity, Glenn Beck and other media and politics matters. And while the talk was recorded before the Rick Sanchez “Jon Stewart and the Jews Control the Media” flap, there was a little …
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This is the sad time of the fall when a TV critic has to decide that, good or bad, certain new shows have dim enough chances that there’s not time to follow them. Fortunately[?] this year the new fall crop is weak enough that that isn’t such a heartbreaker in most cases. But I’m glad—and therefore sad—to report that last night’s …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up:
There’s been a lot of talk lately among critics, including ones I respect and admire, about how terrible Glee is. And I can totally understand it. Glee is not consistent; at times it is not even coherent. It can be an awful show or a great one, often at the same time. It doesn’t follow the …
A rather thorough, spoiler-filled breakdown of Caprica below:
When you’re the prequel to a show called Battlestar Galactica, when you’re given the kind of major league promotions that accompany a Star Wars sequel, it’s hard to satisfy expectations. And that’s what has cursed Caprica since its first episode aired last winter. …
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I’d mentioned earlier that I was probably going to step back from writing up How I Met Your Mother every week, Hell or high water, unless I had a lot to say about a particular episode. “Unfinished” is probably a good place to start that practice, as it combined Glee’s weakness for literally restating its theme over and over (“Finished …
There are songs and then there are things that position words in the general vicinity of music. TIME takes a look at pop numbers that are more spoken than sung.
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Dear CNN: Nothing personal, I just don’t want to be that close to Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker. The new she-said-he-said show, Parker/Spitzer, opened last night with the two hosts and a gaggle of guests crowded together around a round table the size of a medium pizza and, ugh, it was just …
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Over at his redesigned The Page site, my colleague Mark Halperin has been reporting that someone commissioned a poll testing Donald Trump‘s name among a list of potential 2012 Republican Presidential candidates. And in an interview with TIME, Trump is not entirely denying being interested in running: “If I ever did, this would be the …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, fake-call a close friend and pretend to watch last night’s Mad Men together.
God help us, but Stan Rizzo actually had it right this episode: “It’s the end of the world,” he told …
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Spoilers for last night’s Boardwalk Empire coming up:
The first two episodes of Boardwalk Empire, having introduced and expanded the worlds of Nucky Thompson and the New York and Chicago mobs, impressed upon us how dangerous …
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Spoilers for last night’s Rubicon coming up:
One of the things that’s enthralled me with Rubicon (and probably frustrated some people) is how it’s built suspense by withholding. Rather than give us one explosive action scene after another, it’s created tension by the suggestion of violence, the distant reports of threats, the …
