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Quick spoilers for the season finale of Lights Out:
FX sent out the entire 13-episode season of Lights Out before it premiered, and I watched the entire thing over Christmas break. Back when I reviewed it in January, I obliquely noted the ending: “it all builds toward a stunning final few minutes which … would work either as a season
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In yesterday’s New Yorker, Laura Miller (a former colleague of mine from Salon) published an excellent profile of George R. R. Martin—author of the novels on which HBO’s Game of Thrones is based—which focused on the increased demands by fans on creators in an era of ever-more online kibitzing and access. GRRM, for years, has been …
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While I was a big fan of the debut of The Killing, I’ll admit I had my doubts about the ratings: the show was compelling, but also moody and deliberate, and that made me worry it might end up being Cop Rubicon. Instead, The Killing had the second-best debut ever for an AMC series, behind only last fall’s The Walking Dead, with 2.7 …
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Last night, the Connecticut Huskies beat the Butler Bulldogs 53-41, in what I believe was the final score of a basketball game. Butler, dominated by an aggressive UConn defense, was held to the lowest score in an NCAA final since 1949, concluding an amazing run for the Huskies, …
Reader alert: This story quotes quite a few four-letter words, all of them spoken by a future King of England. Some readers may wish to skip the dialogue section after the next boldfaced advisory.
His elocution teacher worked …
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HBO aired the opening scenes of fantasy saga Game of Thrones last night (minus the highly impressive opening credits). I’ve …
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An Associated Press press report cites an unnamed CBS network executive as saying that Katie Couric, as long rumored, is leaving the CBS Evening News as anchor to launch a talk show. The departure—which official network reps and Couric’s people met with non-denial …
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I have never been so proud of my native metro area. Detroit’s Fox Theater was the first stop on Charlie Sheen‘s Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour (or as I prefer, a la Conan, the Constitutionally Unable to Stop Being Insane on Television Tour), and it got off to a disastrous start by all …
Some of the most addictive shows on television have been whodunits. TIME has chosen the very best.
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I’ve had arguments over the years with friends and colleagues who liked The Tudors better than I did, and their disagreements generally boiled to the charge that I was holding the show to an unfair standard. Namely, more or less: expecting it to be good. The Tudors, beyond a lavish attention to detail and some stabs at political …
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I’ll have to admit that, TV-critic triage being the necessity that it is, I haven’t watched Grey’s Anatomy regularly for a couple seasons. So while the musical episode last night, “Song Beneath the Song,” was a good chance for me to catch up and an interesting curiosity, I can’t really review it …
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Spoilers for American Idol’s results show coming up:
Having expended its judges’ save on Casey Abrams last week, American Idol had to eject two contestants this time out. And I am happy/sad to say that my guess was right, as we said goodbye to…
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The Killing, which debuts Sunday night on AMC, is one of those murder stories in which the only things possibly as sad as the death it documents are the lives that survive it.
Yes, the title crime—the gruesome murder of Seattle teenager Rosie Larsen—is heartbreaking. But then there is the family she leaves behind, including two …
