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This time at the end of every year, critics put together our lists: best episodes, best shows, worst shows. But when the year is done, it’s the little moments that stick with you: the small scenes, and the perfect lines.
After the jump, here are a few of my favorite quotes from the last year of TV. Because there’s so much out …
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Quick spoilers for The Sing-Off—and brief thoughts on the preview of NBC’s Perfect Couples—coming up:
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Last year around this time, 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 interesting, group of shows: not mediocre ones, but shows that have ambitions that, for various reasons, they don’t manage …
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At the end of the year, we all take a moment to celebrate that which has been greatest and most uplifting in human endeavor. Then we get bored of all that feel-good crap, and it’s time to bash things. Tuned Inlanders, hoist a tomato with me and toast the Worst TV Shows of 2010!
I focused here on shows that stood out for being …
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It’s December, and you know what that means: from now through the New Year, it’s time for you to get a well-deserved break from having to read my posts so frequently!
But you’re not getting off that easily. While I’ll be on vacation, I’ll probably post occasionally from the road over the next couple of weeks. More important, I have …
Before there were motion-controlled sensors, online gameplay and the whatnot, we saved up quarters and headed down to the local arcade. In a fit of nostalgia, TIME named its top 10 favorite arcade titles.
Movie sequels generally get a bad rap. Still, we at TIME were able to find the rare follow-ups that bested their predecessors.
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I get press releases asking me to embed clips of news reports all the time, and I usually hit delete. But this is bizarre, insane and awesome. According to a report to air on 60 Minutes Sunday, there are six people known to science …
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9/11 was a tragedy that happened to the entire nation, and in its larger ramifications, to the world. But New Yorkers also felt it, and still feel it, on a personal level: not just the fear, the terrible sights and the awful memories (the rest of America watched 9/11; we smelled …
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Even on his last show, with a gang of stars and Larry King Live regulars turned out to send him off, Larry King seemed to have an easier time talking about other people than talking about himself. Receiving tribute from former President Bill Clinton, he turned the conversation toward Clinton’s …
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While there are still a few hours left to celebrate Beethoven’s 240th birthday, here’s an uncharacteristically arty (for Peanuts) but gorgeous scene from A Boy Named Charlie Brown. And yet they never put Beethoven on any bubble gum cards!
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For a show that’s watched by a lot of old people—I’m one of them, so relax—The Good Wife is extremely clued in to social-media technology. Seemingly every week includes a subplot involving Twitter, viral video or a social-media website of some sort. What’s more, it’s not just window dressing; the writers clearly think a lot about …
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Remember when the Park51 Islamic center, or “Ground Zero mosque,” was the absolutely most urgent political-religious-cultural issue facing the United States? When there were protests and fury and old 9/11 wounds reopened, and you needed to choose a side, and politicians from New York …
