Spoilers for last night’s Homeland follow:
In a drama about terrorism, you would expect an explosion, but not of the sort that finished last night’s Homeland. In this stunner of an episode, Homeland blew up its status quo.
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Walking Dead Recap: Deliverance Redux
Last night’s episode brought us into hour 4.5 of the “Sophia Watch.” In the history of drawn-out subplots, this one’s slowly making its way to the top of the pile. But the hunt for the missing girl finally spun off …
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Boardwalk Empire Watch: Generation Gap
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, finish playing that fortuitously instructive board game with your ersatz family and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
As I’ve mentioned in these reviews before, Boardwalk Empire is …
R.E.M.’s Mike Mills on Saying Goodbye After Three Decades
This week, almost two months after their amicable break-up, R.E.M. will release a 40-song retrospective titled R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011. Bassist Mike Mills spoke to TIME about why he …
Fall Theater Roundup: Can Hugh Jackman Save Broadway?
His new one-man show is a rare musical in a fall season filled with earnest dramas. A look at this fall’s hits, misses and the in-between.
Immortals Outmuscles Adam Sandler. But Still Proves a 97-Pound Weakling
The Greek epic earned $32 million its first weekend, but Modern Warfare 3 did $400 million its first day—so who’s the champion of the young-male demographic?
Galley Girl: The Week in Publishing
Once a week, publishing reporter Andrea Sachs will recap the most interesting news in book publishing.
IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME
A high-school classics teacher sends a manuscript of her first novel to an agent in Manhattan, …
Weekend Listening: Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s Rome
It’s been a little more than a month since the fourth season finale of Breaking Bad and I still can’t get this song out of my head. The show does so many things so well — Southwestern cinematography, unbearably tense pace, …
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TV Weekend: Islam, for Real, on All-American Muslim
In last week’s TIME, I took an early look at TLC’s new reality series, All-American Muslim, debuting Sunday night; I also blogged about it earlier here at Tuned In. Here’s one more reminder to catch this deeply intriguing, …
London Boulevard Calling: Don’t Answer
Who still has the patience for that all too-familiar cinematic hero, the guy who gets out of prison vowing never to return to a life of crime and then immediately gets sucked back in by some paternalistic gangster?
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Charlie Rose and Gayle King, Together At Last on CBS’s Early Show
One of the very first articles I wrote for TIME magazine was about CBS trying to relaunch its low-rated morning show, The Early Show, with a new anchor team. It hired Bryant Gumbel (remember him?) and Jane Clayson (remember her?) and plopped them in a voguish glass-walled studio (remember those?). And then—not much. The Early Show has …
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Rick Perry Excuses Himself on David Letterman
Fresh off his freeze-tastic performance in the GOP Presidential debate Wednesday night, Rick Perry showed up on Late Show with David Letterman to try to turn embarrassment into embarrassment-ade, reading a list of top 10 excuses for his onstage forgetfulness.
Did Perry help himself out? The minimum standard for an appearance like this …
Cinematic Visions of the Apocalypse
From movies about nuclear holocaust to films of flesh-eating zombies, here is a selection that may help prepare you for the end of the world