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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, look deep, deep, deep into the flames and watch last night’s Season 2 finale of Game of Thrones.
Some say the world will end in fire/ Some say in ice./ From what I’ve tasted of desire/ …
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It seems like it’s scarcely started, but Sunday night Game of Thrones airs its final episode of its second season. (Business note: I’m not getting an advance review screener to watch and I may have other deadline business, so my …
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The general election season has begun in earnest, and over at Fox News, the channel’s slogan seems to have become, “We Report, You Deci—Oh, Screw It, Let’s Just Make Sure Obama Doesn’t Get Re-Elected.” That anyway is the message sent by a remarkable four-minute attack-video on the Obama presidency that aired Wednesday on Fox and …
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Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next season’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that …
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Spoilers for last Sunday’s Mad Men, “The Other Woman,” and previous episodes, below:
Joan Harris was manipulated, played false and used on Sunday night. Not just by the men in her life, but by Mad Men itself.
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I’ve given History channel grief over recent years for producing shows that are less and less connected with actual history, so credit where due: Hatfields & McCoys, the miniseries that debuted last night, is at least on-brand. It’s also, in a meta sense, evocative of a long-simmering family feud in itself: relentless, seemingly endless, …
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If my blog-editing interface is correct, and I assume that it’s better at math than I am, then this is my 5,000th Tuned In post since I started blogging in fall 2005. I’m not generally big on milestones, but I’m given a running …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, gather your closest friends for some wine and nightshade, raise the drawbridge and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“Some of those boys will never come back.” “Joffrey will. The …
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My latest column in TIME (now free from the paywall!) is about the uproar in broadcast TV over Auto Hop, a new feature on Dish Network DVRs which takes commercial fast-forwarding one step further, allowing viewers to …
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Spoilers for last night’s American Idol finale below:
Was anyone surprised?
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Spoilers for the season finale of Glee below:
One beef I often have with Glee episodes is that they move too fast, go in too many directions, try to cram in too much at once. You might say that about “Goodbye,” the season 3 …
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I’m not convinced that American Idol finale performances actually mean anything. They don’t happen in a vacuum; fans have the whole season to base their votes on, and they’ve already fallen into camps. I’ve seen enough Idol …
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