Tuned InTelevision
More and more often, when I’m talking to someone about a TV show I follow–which I do a lot, because I am very boring and have little other frame of reference–they’ll say that they haven’t watched it yet, but are soon going to …
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At the end of the year, we pause to honor the accomplishments of the creative, talented individuals whose efforts fill our calendar with thrills and laughter. Which gets pretty boring after a while! So let’s end 2011 by …
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Two years ago at Tuned In, I invented a new kind of TV award, or perhaps “award.” Like a lot of critics, I always list the best shows of the year, and the worst. But that inevitably leaves out a certain, often more …
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How an upstart film became a holiday icon for the post-boomer set.
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It’s that time of year, when the Tuned In family overpacks the Tuned Inmobile, heads out to the Tuned In homeland in Michigan, and prays that a blizzard does not immobilize New York City again just before we return. I’ll be away …
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Spoilers for the season finale of American Horror Story below:
If there is one thing I would not have predicted of American Horror Story when it began, it was that it would end up the season so straightforward and sensible. …
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Continuing a tradition among TV critics on Twitter—and by “tradition,” I mean, “something we’ve done for the past two years, or three, I think”—the other day Maureen Ryan invited fellow critics and Twitter followers across the world to blow a few hours on a December afternoon recalling the best lines from TV shows in the past year. …
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Spoilers for the season finale of Terra Nova below:
I’ve said before that Terra Nova seems to want to be every kind of TV show at once: a cop show, a sci-fi show, a family show, a medical show, an action thriller… For its …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, stop watching that breaking-news alert about your dad and watch last night’s season finale of Homeland.
“I swore an oath to defend the United States of America against enemies both …
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Christopher Hitchens, the brilliant, pugilistic essayist and journalist, died Thursday of cancer at age 62. This is not a personal remembrance of Hitchens; I didn’t know him. It’s too bad, because from all accounts knowing “Hitch” was a bracing experience, involving arguments and legendary drinking bouts that Hitchens, inevitably, would …
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Your chances of winning the next edition of America’s Got Talent for butt bongo just got better.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for January’s Golden Globe Awards this morning. I got over my caring-who-the-Golden-Globes-pick problem a while ago. The awards are fun as a show—I never miss …
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On Saturday, comedian Louis CK did what was arguably a stupid thing. He made his latest concert video, Live at the Beacon Theater, available for streaming and download at his website for five bucks. The stupid part, depending on your view of human nature, is that he put up a version of the video that had no copy protection—you download …
