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Spoilers for last night’s Community follow:
Consider this not so much a review of last night’s Community as a decision to defer judgment. As for the chief running storylines, they were… fine. For the first time in a while, Britta carried a strong comic story, with her comedy-of-PC-errors “lesbian” date at the Valentine’s dance. Troy …
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Donald Trump is perhaps the most successful Presidential noncandidate our political system has ever produced. You may recall when he illustriously didn’t run for President in 1988 after fanning much media speculation that he would. He followed that up by dramatically not running for President …
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Spoilers for last night’s episode of The Office coming up:
If you’ve been following The Office this season, the one in which Steve Carell is leaving the show and thus Michael Scott is leaving the Scranton branch, you may have been wondering by now when exactly the show would get around to the business of Michael actually leaving. …
The derivative, gag-filled take on Romeo and Juliet set among warring gnomes in neighboring backyards fails to bloom
What could have been another crude Adam Sandler comedy is redeemed by the former Friend’s best work in years
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In many political sex-exposé stories, or follow-up reports on the same, there is often what I think of as the “Why you don’t have to feel guilty about caring about this story” paragraph. This paragraph generally lays out the pol’s public positions and history, which, either directly or by some stretch of logic, make his or her actions …
I ask the question in all seriousness, as someone who has been left aghast by this truly abysmal season of SNL.
As one host after another has been squandered, as one irksome recurring character after another has killed time, Saturday Night Live has grown increasingly lazy and uninspired. I now tune in for Weekend Update and Andy …
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Since HBO scheduled the debut of Game of Thrones for April, I’ve been wondering when Treme—which went back into production recently—would land back on the schedule, especially since HBO has become flush with series. Dave Walker of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the premiere reporter on the Treme beat, has word today the series …
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I try not to bore you with the details of my job as TV critic—but hey, it’s that or bore you with my TV criticism, right? I did not review last night’s debut of Mr. Sunshine in advance. The reason was not its quality, or my laziness, or lack of interest, but the awfulness of ABC’s …
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Spoilers for the series finale of Friday Night Lights up next:
In my preview column for the finale of Friday Night Lights, I made a comparison—obvious in retrospect, so maybe someone has made it before—between FNL and It’s a Wonderful Life. Both are stories about American towns and the pull (and sometimes the burden) of community. …
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Today, in a presentation conveniently following Keith Olbermann’s decision to join the network, Current TV announced a slate of new programming for the year 2011. It’s not the new, complementary news-and-views programming that (one assumes) new star and news chief Olbermann will recruit to air along with his primetime show. That will …
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Justified returns tonight on FX. I’ve seen three episodes. I wrote a very brief review in this week’s TIME. I had plans to expand on that later. Best-laid plans, &c. Breaking news. Personal matters. Dog ate it. Volcano eruption. I shall gladly pay you on Tuesday, &c.
Anyway, Justified is back tonight. If you liked it last season, …
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Tonight, the lights go out in East Dillon, as DirecTV airs the last episode ever of one of the past decade’s greatest TV series, Friday Night Lights. Rather than re-invent the wheel, here’s another link, in case you missed it, to my farewell column last week, in which I wrote about …
