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SPOILER ALERT: The following post and interview contain spoilers about the season finale of Breaking Bad.
Last week, after watching a screener of Breaking Bad’s gut-punch of a season ending, I got on the phone with Vince …
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Spoiler alert: Before you read this post, stop reading that derivative script about the rich society boy who falls for the servant girl and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
I need to keep this week’s Boardwalk Empire Watch …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, stop watching House, or something, and watch last night’s season finale of Breaking Bad.
“A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks.”
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You probably don’t need a reminder if you’re interested, but Breaking Bad‘s season 4 finale is this Sunday. When last we left Walter White, he was crumpled on a roof, having found himself in a kill-or-be-killed situation with …
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Last night’s Parks and Recreation, “Born and Raised”—in which Leslie Knope encountered the Pawnee version of birtherism—was the strongest yet of the new-season episodes and one that gives me great hope for what it can do with …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s return of South Park below:
Some last-minute deadlines prevent me from giving the longer writeup I was hoping to “Ass Burgers,” which resolved the sort-of-cliffhanger from the midseason finale. I found a lot to like in the episode, like the topical spoof of vaccine paranoia. (Even the semi-insensitive …
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Over at ThinkProgress, critic Alyssa Rosenberg (whom you should be reading if you aren’t already), has a thought-provoking post on all the new fall shows with female stars, and whether or not those shows are actually speaking to a female audience. “This was supposed to be a great fall for women on television, but several weeks in, it …
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I spend most of any waking weekday inside Steve Jobs’ idea.
I wake up to an alarm clock set by my iPhone, which is docked to it. I get up and go for a run, listening to my iPod Nano on shuffle. Back home I get dressed, listening to NPR (iPhone app). Breakfast time and I read the …
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Elsewhere at time.com, TIME film critic Richard Corliss reviews Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison documentary, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, which airs in two parts on HBO tonight and tomorrow:
The “quiet Beatle” — the one who told an interviewer, “I’m even more normal than normal people” — was also the nicest
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The TV news-o-sphere has been buzzing for the last day or so about reports that Fox has threatened to stop producing new episodes of The Simpsons if its voice actors do not accept a substantial—as in, nearly by half—pay cut. Considering that the show has been one of TV’s biggest successes since it began life as a cave painting at …
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Some might say that TV is too much a business of bean counters, but Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., who died Monday, was perhaps the most culturally influential bean counter of them all. Because, after all, the beans whose counting he revolutionized were all of us.
TV is a commercial business, and shows (excepting public TV) are on the air …
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In my review that posted earlier this morning, I neglected to mention one of the biggest reasons to root for the success of American Horror Story. It could give Ryan Murphy a full-time distraction, so that the new team of writers can get Glee under control, free from the need to throw in more and more insanity to fend off the boredom …
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Friends, I am not here today to argue that American Horror Story is, if I may use a critical-theory term, “good.” At least if one judges it by such factors as coherence, consistency or plausibility of characters’ motivations. The new series (FX, Wednesdays) comes from producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Like their current show, …
