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A Second Look At: Nashville
It began the fall as my most-anticipated new network show, and as it takes a break for the holidays, it’s the one new show (with Last Resort already canceled) I’m most likely to stick with.
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We Are a Camera: Life, Death and the Urge to Shoot
At tragic and mundane moments now, we reach for our cameras. The New York City subway death makes me wonder what that’s doing to us.
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Taking It Personal: A Look Back at Boardwalk Empire Season Three
The season built to a riveting run, connecting a lot of seemingly loose threads. But it also showed the difference between bringing plot elements together and bringing larger themes together.
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The Top 10 TV Episodes of 2012: The Best and the Rest
Because no human can watch everything, this list is necessarily more incomplete, and therefore more fun, than my annual Best Shows list.
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The Top 10 TV Shows of 2012: The Best and the Rest
Here’s my complete list, along with a partial list of honorable mentions. But first, it’s time for my annual list of caveats, rationalizations and excuses!
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Homeland Watch: E-Mail My Heart
In which Homeland gets its pulse racing dangerously fast, but still shows it can deliver the character scenes that set it apart from other spy thrillers.
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30 Rock Watch: The Force of Love
Through Liz Lemon’s wedding, last night’s 30 Rock called back to the show’s rich history and managed to be romantic in a way that was true to Liz’s über-nerdness.
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CNN Picks a New Boss: Will It Be Saved, or Has it Been Zuckered?
Despite a decade of bad decisions while he ran NBC, Jeff Zucker has real strengths as a TV executive. They just don’t look like the ones CNN needs right now.
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Dead Tree Alert: Won’t Someone Think of the Parents!
With rare exceptions, sex scandals around kids’ TV shows rarely pose any threat, physical or psychological, to the child audience. The ones we’re generally moving to protect are a more delicate, vulnerable audience—their moms and dads.
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Book Review: Alan Sepinwall’s The Revolution Was Televised
Don’t think of this history of TV drama’s new golden age as a mere book. Think of it as the ultimate DVD-set commentary
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A Half Man Turns on His Own Sitcom’s ‘Filth’
First Charlie Sheen, now Angus T. Jones. Anyone up for One Man, starring Jon Cryer?
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Homeland Watch: One of Us
The hunt for a mole was a staple of Homeland’s predecessor 24. “Two Hats” put that storyline front and center—but ended up taking it in a very different direction.
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Larry Hagman, 1931-2012: The Dallas Legend Remembered
The love-to-hate-him (her) character is by now a staple of TV. But rarely has there been an actor who so palpably enjoyed being love-to-hated as Larry Hagman.