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Spoilers ahead for the Fringe season finale:
Fringe committed more than ever to hardcore sci-fi, if that were possible, in its multipart finale, with mixed results. I thought the last installment, “The Day We Died,” was not Fringe’s finest moment as an individual finale. But it left me reasonably hopeful for the overarching storyline …
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I’m back from a long weekend in Dallas with Tuned In Jr. at the National Elementary Chess Championships. If you ever want to see something truly terrifying, sit in on a room full of hundreds of children at chessboards, staring in murderous silence at something that is not a handheld game system.
I’ve got a fair-sized viewing backlog …
The comedy superstar takes a serious turn in a melancholy new drama
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Spoiler alert: Before you read this post, set up your DVR to record the big joust later, and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
One complaint, or at least comment, that I’ve heard about Game of Thrones so far is that the episodes are not really episodes. That is, even more so than most HBO series (excepting maybe David Simon’s) …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s Parks and Recreation coming up:
Parks and Recreation is getting to the point that Breaking Bad did for me last year: it’s getting near-impossible to figure out how to whittle down which episode(s) I include on my year-end ten-best list while still leaving room for anything else.
“Eagleton” was another …
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I’m traveling through Monday night, so posting will be light here. I’ll have a Game of Thrones Watch ready to robo-post after Sunday’s episode airs, and a post on last night’s Parks and Recreation, which I’ve seen in advance. But it will be a while before I catch up on Thursday-night and weekend TV, so here’s a chance for you to weigh …
TIME, feeling the need for speed, decided to choose the best car chase scenes of all time.
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Spoilers ahead for the season finale of Justified:
It could not have been more fitting that the climax of this fantastic season of Justified, “Bloody Harlan,” came with Mags Bennett telling a lie about her family, encased in a truth about family. Facing Loretta, whose father she poisoned, and staring down her own possible death, Mags …
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Last night, the five remaining contestants on American Idol each sang a song from the present and one from a generation ago — a theme otherwise known as Now and Then; or, A Song, Plus Another Song to Make This Last 90 Minutes. Who made the past a blast? Who was a bad acid flashback? Click the pix to read my reviews.
The Norse god faces two daunting challenges: to vanquish his enemies in mythological Norway and modern-day New Mexico, and to top Fast Five at the box office
Mel Gibson’s real-life meltdown wrecked his career. His meltdown in Jodie Foster’s new drama, ‘The Beaver,’ could help save it
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Is nothing sacred, America? The Nielsen company reported yesterday that the number of US households with a television actually decreased by over a million last year; this marks the first decline in household TV ownership since 1992 (when figures were corrected to match census data).
Does this mean the nation is rejecting TV? Not the …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee:
Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is a classic of pop rock, a genre that Glee introduced itself to the world with (Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'”). And it’s a notoriously personal work, inspired by the couplings and decouplings within the group, compounded by gossip and misinformation outside the group—pretty …
