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Upfronts Watch: Fox Cuts Jack Bauer In Half
The most forward-looking things in the network’s future were more 24, a remake of Cosmos, and the revival of the ’70s/’80s-style miniseries.
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Upfronts Watch: NBC Tries to Turn Around Its Turnaround
NBC is using family sitcoms, genre dramas, and a lot of familiar faces to try to do what it tried to do a year ago.
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Game of Thrones Watch: Dragons and Eagles and Bears, Oh, My!
There was a menagerie of zoological references in an episode that showed how people could be animals—sometimes, literally.
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Your New, Very Slightly Different Host of Late Night, Seth Meyers
The Late Night show was once a place for experimentation. Now it seems to be becoming another rung on an established entertainment-corporate ladder.
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TV Weekend: Family Tree
Having spoofed dog shows, heavy metal, and community theater, Christopher Guest turns to another odd , more bittersweet obsession: genealogy.
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Dead Tree Alert: It’s Not TV. On the Set of the New Arrested Development
For the longest time, I told myself I would believe an Arrested Development reunion when I saw it. Then I saw it.
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The Office Will End Big. It Will End Too Late. But It Can Still End Well.
The Office hasn’t been great in a while. But it can have a great finale if it remembers its core theme: the compromises and adjusted expectations that come with adult life, at work and in relationships.
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Mad Men Character Study: Meet the Old Don. Same As the New Don?
The beauty of Sunday’s Mad Men: it appealed to viewer’s fascination with swaggering, confident antiheroes while also questioning it.
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Reliable Sources Answers: Who Shall Critique the Media Critic?
More interesting than the individual elements of the Howard Kurtz controversy was seeing a TV host answer for them on his own show.
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Game of Thrones Watch: The Game Is the Game (of Thrones)
Like HBO’s The Wire, “The Climb” showed how individuals get sacrificed by organizations: not bureaucracies and drug gangs, but royal houses and religions.
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TV Tonight: Maron
In its first three episodes, the abrasive, often funny Maron is a deep dive into the bottomless reservoir of neurosis as a font of comedy.
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The Americans Watch: It’s a Knockout
Elizabeth and Philip play a game without frontiers in a confident ending to one of the best debut drama seasons in recent years.
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Game of Thrones Watch: The Walking Dead
Winning the Iron Throne is the Targaryens’ and Lannisters’ and Baratheons’ and Starks’ problem. But Westeros’ problem is that it’s had a lot of really crappy kings.