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I love Top Chef. I love–well, at least I have loved–The Amazing Race. Around the World in 80 Plates is, on the surface, Top Chef meets The Amazing Race. Twelve chefs start off in London, traveling every week from one …
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You may have heard that the NBC network has had a touch of trouble in the ratings lately. A slew of its new shows failed this season; Smash and Grimm will be back but have been, at best, far less than a smash and just better than grim; and its once must-see Thursday now does ratings that would be just respectable on basic cable.
But …
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Spoilers for Sunday night’s Girls follow:
Yesterday I solicited your thoughts on Veep, after it aired the third of three episodes I saw before reviewing it. Today we look at Girls‘ 4th episode, “Hannah’s Diary,” the first …
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This is not a review of Veep, exactly—for my original review of the series, see here. But I like to check in with readers to compare opinions after you’ve seen as many episodes as I did of a show when I first reviewed it, and …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, make your way home past your jeering subjects, and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“How can I call myself king if I can’t hold my own castle?” —Robb Stark
The first episode …
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How is it possible that a show based on a set of stories that began in the 19th century could be the freshest detective show on television? Sherlock, the British rethinking of Sherlock Holmes, managed that in 2010 with crisp …
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This is the first year in a while I haven’t been doing weekly writeups of the American Idol performance shows, pretty opportune timing for me because the show has reached a level of padding I thought impossible even for it, the …
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Is it possible that Sally Draper is the secret protagonist of Mad Men?
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The cord-cutting era may be getting cut back itself. According to a report in the New York Post, the online video outlet Hulu (a joint venture of NBC, Fox and ABC) is considering requiring that its users prove they have a cable …
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Quick thoughts on the season finale of The Good Wife below:
One concern I’d had as season 3 of The Good Wife went on was that the show might be attempting to hit the reset button, returning to the circumstances of the series’ …
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With “All Adventurous Women Do,” you’ve now seen as many episodes of Girls as I’d seen before I reviewed it. Rather than recap the episode line by line, let me unpack two scenes from it that helped confirm I was sold on this …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, broil a chunk of raw meat and watch last night’s Game of Thrones.
“They say he can’t be killed.” “And do you believe them?” “No, my Lord. Anyone can be killed.”
Arya Stark is a …
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Looking back at my review of the first live 30 Rock in October 2010, I thought it was a fun experiment but not a great episode of the show. The jarring thing about the transition was not the live performance per se but the live …
