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Don’t Watch the News Today
It is quite possible that daytime election coverage is the most excited and useless news that TV outlets bring us in a year, and that’s saying something
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Homeland Watch: Trust No One
The overarching theme of the episode was that, while there may be a new balance of power among the characters, there may not be enough trust for it to work.
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TV Weekend: SEAL Team Six
The Bin Laden raid movie is at best a competent, bland docudrama. But the timing means it’s hard to discuss it only as a movie.
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South Park Watch: All For a Good Scause
What with so much talk in the headlines now about charity and the right and wrong ways to go about it, it’s perfect (if unintentional) timing that South Park should do something on the subject this week. This being South Park, of …
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Moneypoll! The Pundits Vs. The Election-Data Nerds
The other big contest next Tuesday is between the pundits trying to analyze the election with their guts and a new breed of statistics gurus trying to forecast it with data.
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Sandy Watch: On TV, Raining Rumors, Wet Reporters and A Few Dry Jokes
One of the strange impulses of modern life is the irresistible–to me, anyway–urge to turn on the TV and the laptop and spend all day watching coverage of a weather disaster that you are already in the middle of experiencing.
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Homeland Watch: Broken Boy Soldier
Carrie and the CIA break Brody down to remake him, and in the process, Homeland makes itself into potentially quite a different, and exciting, series.
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Debate Watch: Bringing a Bayonet to a Knife Fight
In the final debate, nominally on foreign policy, Barack Obama came ready for a cavalry charge, while Mitt Romney seemed content to watch from the trenches.
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Homeland Watch: Hotel Check-Out
Homeland’s season two has not been stingy with the forward motion and plot developments, and last night, it dropped a game-changer.
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Debate Watch: The Fact-Check Heard Round the World
We don’t yet have pop-up fact-checks at Presidential debates. But for one crucial moment, we did have Candy Crowley.
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TV Tonight: American Horror Story: Asylum
Set in a 1960s sanitarium for the criminally insane, AHS’s second season begins as a more focused, if equally frenetic, screamfest.
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Debate Preview: TV Doesn’t Matter Anymore, Except When It Totally Does
It turns out the debates are among those few exceptions every year—the Oscars, the Super Bowl, the Olympics—when TV awakens as a big medium, now amplified and hyped by social media.
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to Stay on NBC, At Least As Golden Globes Hosts
NBC is keeping its two favorite funny women on the air—at least for one night, as co-hosts of the Golden Globes next January. To which I can only say: what took so long?