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Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person.
After Desmond descends into the pit in the Lost finale, “The End,” we see Smokey (in …
It’s not every day that a disgraced former governor who’s been convicted of lying to the FBI goes on primetime television to chat about the trial. So I tuned in to Monday evening’s The Daily Show for a little good old-fashioned Schadenfreude, as Rod Blagojevich sat down across Jon Stewart to be pummeled and ridiculed. Halfway …
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Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person.
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The Lost complete series DVD …
Note: This is less an episode summary than a larger discussion of the series’ surprising change in direction.
Oh Entourage, how you confound me. I’ve rarely had such an emotionally turbulent relationship with a TV series – alternating between apathy and sympathy, between eye-rolls and gasps. What once was a great show about a …
Before reading this post, enjoy dinner and a show at a Benihana restaurant, then watch last night’s Mad Men.
Sally Draper got a haircut, and Roger Sterling a dressing down, in the fifth and strongest episode of the fourth season. Streamlined compared with last week’s scattershot plot, the new hour, titled “The Chrysanthemum and the …
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Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person.
Since we’re taking a second look at the Lost finale this week, we may as well begin …
Why is this Mad Men Watch being posted on the weekend? Three reasons. Because I had to think through my initial disappointment and confusion about season 4, episode 4: “The Rejected.” (Indeed, my first impulse after watching …
Movies have constantly taught us that animals want nothing more than to hurt, devour and take us down. TIME takes a look at cinema’s most memorable angry creature flicks.
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This is the end of Robo-James’ Time Machine Week, but Flesh-James still has another week on vacation. So I’m going to set up next week’s robo-posts by setting the Time Machine back a mere few months: to May 23, the date of Lost‘s finale. Next week, the complete Lost series DVD set comes out, and …
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First of all, my apologies for the quality of this video clip, which is not great. The content, however, is awesome.
Nowadays, TV networks have all manner of media and devices by which to imprint their fall shows on your consciousness before they debut. Advance video downloads. …
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Don Draper and I turn out to have something in common. In a recent episode of Mad Men, Don takes fellow divorcé Lane Pryce out on a bender that includes a trip to a Japanese monster movie. Which took me back: not to 1964, but to the late ’70s / early ’80s or thereabouts, when the …
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