James Poniewozik

James Poniewozik writes TIME magazine's Tuned In column, about pop culture and society. Tuned In, the blog version, is about the stuff we used to call "TV," whether it's in your living room, on your computer or - once the networks figure out the technology and line up the advertisers - in your dreams themselves.

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TV Tonight: Revolution

First things first: I do not care whether the premise of NBC’s Revolution—all electricity, even batteries, ceases functioning, and civilization collapses—is physically plausible. I don’t know how the catastrophe happened. It …

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TV Tonight: The New Normal

When I write my Test Pilot previews of new fall shows over the summer, I point out that they shouldn’t be taken as definitive reviews, because the pilots I see then can be reshot and recast before airing, or the show might evolve …

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The Morning After: Back Into The Thick of It

The US and British governments, tied by history, are said to have a special relationship. So do US and British TV. Earlier this year, HBO debuted Veep, a series that attempted to translate both British government and British television to the US, by making an American vice-presidential version of Armando Iannucci’s profane government …

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The Morning After: The Candidate of Change, Changed

“I recognize that times have changed since I first spoke to this convention. The times have changed and so have I.

“I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President.”

In 2008, candidate Barack Obama campaigned at the Democratic National Convention on hope and change. In 2012, the change was that he could no longer just …

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