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Spoilers for last night’s Sons of Anarchy season finale below:
The two-part season 4 finale of Sons of Anarchy was titled “To Be,” a direct declaration, if you needed one, that the series had returned to its initial form, …
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Brief spoilers for last night’s Enlightened below:
I realize that Enlightened is a polarizing show, to the extent that a TV show that a couple hundred thousand people watch is capable of polarizing anyone. I’ve argued here …
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Things are moving along at the HBO Aaron Sorkin Project formerly known as “Untitled Aaron Sorkin Project.” According to Alex Weprin at TVNewser, the series, set at a fictional cable-news network now has a name… wait for it… …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, wait for that noisy train to finish passing by, then watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
“Let’s just say your life is pretty Jacobean all by itself,” Jimmy Darmody’s Princeton …
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Because the Republican presidential primary has been too stodgy and dignified lately–what with all the sex-harassment eruptions, memory-lapse gaffes and “SexyBack” parodies—Donald Trump will host a GOP debate in Iowa on Dec. …
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For the past several seasons, midseason—the stretch of the TV calendar starting in January—has been when Fox’s season really began in earnest, as it brought out powerhouses like American Idol and, back in the day, 24. That’s …
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For the past few years, I’ve been doing a year-end list of 10 best episodes as well as 10 best TV series. I resisted doing the episodes list at first, because I’m lazy and because there’s too much out there for me to pretend my …
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In this week’s print TIME, Joe Klein has a cover story on Mitt Romney’s inability to close the deal with Republican primary voters. For months, the polling trendline has looked like this: Romney has been cruising flat on the moving sidewalk of his campaign, while watching Rick Perry, then Herman Cain, and now Newt Gingrich rise past him …
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Ghost stories are not usually stories about ghosts. They’re stories with ghosts, stories around ghosts, stories in which ghosts figure. There might be an interesting backstory to the ghosts, but the story itself, generally, is …
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HBO announced today that it signed a new contract with one of its favorite writers, David Milch, who created Deadwood, John from Cincinnati and various projects that never made air for the network, and whose horseracing drama Luck debuts next month. (A sneak preview will air Dec. 11.) In connection with the deal, the network has also …
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When you create a new sitcom, and it is not very good, and the title begins, “I Hate…,” you can pretty much expect every TV critic in America to come up with their own play on the title to express how much They Hate This …
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Quick spoilers for the season finale of Bored to Death below:
Last night was the last episode of Bored to Death‘s season three, and perhaps, depending how HBO reacts to the ratings, the last of the series. I’ve always quietly …
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I don’t yet know how history will remember the Herman Cain candidacy for President, but the pizza king /erstwhile GOP frontrunner has given us what I believe is a first in Presidential campaigning: the candidate went on a cable-news show yesterday evening and scooped his own accuser on a charge of a 13-year extramarital affair. Asked …
