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TV Weekend: Liz and Dick
Liz and Dick is possibly the worst TV movie of the year, and therefore probably the most successful.
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Don’t Take It Out on Elmo
Parents, as grown-ups, should be able to distinguish between actor and character, reality and fiction, just as we do all the time with movie actors.
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You Have to See This: HBO’s Witness and the Stories Behind War Photos
This terrific four-part documentary shows why certain photographers seek out images and dangers most people close their eyes to.
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Homeland Watch: Motel Matches
Brody finds himself spirited away under surprising circumstances. But man, could he use a vacation.
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TV Weekend: The Dust Bowl
Yes, Ken Burns’ new documentary is history. But to ignore the film’s resonances with climate change today is to be as blind as a farmer in a cloud of choking topsoil.
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TV Tonight: Crossfire Hurricane
The HBO documentary is not a revelation, but it’s an intimate story of the band, with performance sequences that show how five guys came together and made an entity of pure fire and sex.
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Guy Fieri Gets Served
Fieri has symbolized food TV’s move from cooking shows to eating shows. But the New York Times restaurant reviewer suggests America’s Eater-in-Chief may have bitten off more than he can chew.
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Elmo, Petraeus, Sex, and What Is Our Damn Business
Whether it involves kids’ entertainment or entirely adult matters, it can be hard to distinguish between genuine outrages and stories that just titillate us or creep us out.
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Homeland Watch: Wine-and-Cheese Party
Each subplot in “The Clearing” is about a relationship whose partners have private motivations—whether they want something from the other, or just want to escape.
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One More Episode! BSG’s Blood and Chrome Prequel Debuts, But Where’s the Great New Sci-Fi?
The prequel is fine—somewhere between the original BSG and the Portlandia parody. But at this point I’d much rather see SyFy making some kind of attempt to create intelligent, ambitious, original sci-fi series.
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Dept. of Did Somebody Ask for This? The Killing May Be Coming Back
Its first season first intrigued, then infuriated fans. Its second season suffered a big dropoff in ratings, and the show wasn’t picked up. That can only mean one thing: The Killing, reportedly, is close to a deal to be revived …
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Dead Tree Alert: Why TV Still Matters in Politics
Election TV is much like the rest of TV today. On a day to day basis, it’s less dominant. But a very few big events—whether a debate or a secretly-taped video—have a bigger reach and effect than ever.
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Election Watch: Karl Rove Vs. the Arithmetic
In a bizarre interlude last night, Fox News analyst and GOP rainmaker Karl Rove went to war against math–his own network’s.