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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, turn off that Chaplin picture and watch last night’s season premiere of Boardwalk Empire.
Boardwalk Empire‘s first season resolved a longstanding question of paternity: who was Jimmy’s …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, turn off Three Days of the Condor and watch last night’s Breaking Bad.
In my write-up of last week’s Breaking Bad, I looked at how Walt’s talk with Walt Jr. pointed up a cruel irony: …
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A quick reminder that tonight is the return of Fringe, which more or less fully embraced the weirdness of its battle-between-the-mirror-universes story last season and lived to tell the tale. There’s not much I can say about …
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You know the drill: too many season debuts, not enough time. Here’s your space to offer your morning-after critiques of the various premieres, returns and other TV shows of Thursday night, including:
* the season premieres of …
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Spoilers for last night’s The Office below:
That was encouraging. I am not nearly ready, after one episode, to declare that the retooled, post–Steve Carell The Office has solved its problems. Without Michael Scott as its …
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In this week’s TIME comes my disappointed review (subscription required) of the two-hour pilot of Terra Nova, which premieres Monday. This is a good time to repeat the caveat that a review is not a prediction of ratings: I will …
Though we’ve left out some sentimental choices — cry us a river over “Brian’s Song” another time — we’re confident that you’ll discover some new favorites
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Particularly when you have only a pilot to go on, reviewing a new TV series can be more like describing a forked path, and guessing which way each turn could lead. This was how it was this year with, for instance, 2 Broke Girls, …
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Amid the crush of new fall-TV reviews, the premieres of returning shows tend to get shortchanged, and here at Tuned In I’m no exception, so I’ll give you this Morning After post to talk about what you thought of, for instance, last night’s double shot debut of Modern Family. (I will say this: if the premiere of Revenge that followed it …
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It’s premiere night on Fox, and the new season of the network’s big singing competition opens with assaultive graphics (BIG! METAL! LETTERS!) and a lot of bombast. The announcer promises us that this coast-to-coast talent search …
An all-ages tribute to a differently abled dolphin
This intimate indie is one of the loveliest romances of the year
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Word of warning: for the next day or two, those of us who attended college in the ’80s and ’90s are going to be insufferable. The news has come out that R.E.M., after a three-decade run, are breaking up. Get ready for the reminiscences: this is an unprovable thesis, but R.E.M.’s music was especially intimate and inward-looking for a …
