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Killings, Convicts, and Campers: Three New Shows to Watch for
This week sees the debuts of three of the summer’s most promising new series about murder on the border, culture clashes in prison, and love in the woods
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The Best TV Shows of 2013 (So Far)
Our TV critic picks 14 great shows from an especially strong half-year of television
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Programming Note
I’ll be traveling outside the international boundaries of Tuned Inland for a couple weeks.
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TV Weekend: Ray Donovan
Showtime’s new brooding-antihero drama is a couple of good performances in search of a show.
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Paula Deen Talks to Matt Lauer, As One More “Sinned” Against Than Sinning
A tearful Deen explains herself to Lauer as a decent person who’s distraught, hurt–and the victim of “lies” from “someone evil.”
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In Texas Filibuster, YouTube Stands Up While “24/7” News Falls
The ticking-clock late-night showdown over an abortion bill was riveting TV news. So why did it play out almost entirely online?
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Mad Men Character Study: Dick Whitman’s Last Stand
The last moments of season 6 suggest that in season 7, Don/Dick will try to synthesize the person he invented with the person he was born.
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TV Tonight: Under the Dome
CBS’s Stephen King–based snowglobe scenario asks: what if your little community suddenly became the entire world?
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Paula Deen “Beg[s] for Your Forgiveness,” For Something
A vague apology video raises the question: what exactly does Deen think she did wrong?
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Less Than Accidental Racist: Why Paula Deen’s Comments Insult Her Fans Too
Deen made a pile of money off a certain idea of old-school southern culture. She had an obligation not to embody its most shameful history and attitudes.
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James Gandolfini (1961–2013): As a Made Man, He Made TV Great
With his forceful yet subtle performance as a suburban mobster, he wrote the blueprint for the modern, complicated TV antihero
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Michael Hastings and Who Journalists Really Work For
Hastings, who died Tuesday at 33, knew something all journalists should remember: that he worked for his readers, not for his sources.
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Scary Movie: The Fear Factor of Mad Men’s Season Six
The foreboding this season has had fans spinning dark theories about who will get whacked. But the show is telling a more intimate kind of horror story.