Tuned InTelevision
It should be possible to criticize excessive, numbing, bludgeoning violence in pop culture without reaching for a dubious argument that it leads to massacres.
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The winner of this season, as much as anyone, was NBC. But can the singing contest finally launch a genuine star?
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The Lord of the Rings was a masterpiece of compression, but the bloated Hobbit is an example of why it’s not a good idea to show fans every thing they might want to see
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In a finale called “The Choice,” Homeland avoided making its toughest one. But Carrie also had a decision to make, and chose well.
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There is no good journalistic reason to put a child at a mass-murder scene on live TV, permission of the parents or not.
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There’s a sense that, depending which choices Homeland makes, the season finale could redeem or disgrace itself utterly.What do you need Homeland to do?
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The Globes’ TV nominations are like the awards ceremony itself: a fun time, but worth taking seriously only as the subject of a drinking game.
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Comparing the year’s top-charting shows, in the Nielsen ratings and online, shows how starkly how much the definition of “hit” has changed.
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I can’t tell you if the Bin Laden movie really “glorifies torture.” But great art can embody ugly ideas—which is why partisans have such a hard time trusting it
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From horror to comedy to politics, here are the American Film Institute’s 10 best shows of 2012, and how we came up with the list.
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A major storyline ends mundanely, for once without any shocker twist. But can Homeland find its way out of its own narrative labyrinth?
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When Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., made the surprise announcement that he was leaving the Senate to run the Heritage Foundation, it raised some big political questions. Most important: Stephen Colbert is from where again?
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Another retooling of a struggling sitcom in its second season raises the question: when have you changed a show so much that it isn’t itself anymore?
