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The Good Wife Watch: Best Enemies
As the terrific, emotionally complicated midseason finale showed, Alicia and Will are hotter as rivals than as lovers.
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Peter W. Kaplan, A Consummate Editor’s Editor
Under his watch, the New York Observer dissected the glitter of a rising city
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All the Things That Make Us Laugh and Cry: Family Guy and When Sitcoms Kill
It can be sad when dramas kill off characters. But it’s the deaths in comedies–even cartoons–that hit closest to real life.
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Couric to Yahoo: Why Hire a Broadcaster in a Narrowcasting World?
What makes a TV star doesn’t necessarily make an online star
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You Win Or You Die: The Ruthless Beauty of Boardwalk Empire’s Finale
In Nucky Thompson’s own game of thrones, the story gets ever more sprawling, and–as the season 4 finale proved again–few people are safe.
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Healthcare.gov Is, Like, the Twelfth “Obama’s Katrina” So Far
There is no force of man or nature more powerful than a news cliché.
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Dead Tree Alert: The Sunday TV Overload Crisis
On TV’s busiest night, it’s too much of a good thing.
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No, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Isn’t Conservative Propaganda
The show is a nice, funny sitcom about the (somewhat) tamed streets of New Brooklyn. And that’s not a crime.
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How I Lost My Head for Sleepy Hollow
Fox’s apocalyptic drama is (American) Revolutionary, trading the dark paranoia of The X-Files for a celebration of belief and wonders.
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TV—or Streaming Video—Tonight: ‘Alpha House’ on Amazon
This political satire, Amazon’s first streaming series, looks like big-time TV but plays like a cartoon.
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John Oliver to Star in HBO Comedy Series
The weekly topical-comedy show will air next year
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Reporting JFK’s Death: News, Tragedy, and Confusion, Decades Before Twitter
Real-time footage from Nov. 22, 1963 shows the fog of breaking news is no recent invention.
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Is There Too Much Great TV or Too Little?
We’re no longer in a so-called Golden Age dominated by a few great shows. But now there are golden nuggets everywhere, and that’s a very good thing.